Cartier's trio of cult rings shakes up its lines and embraces new, original formats that challenge its geometry.
A mini-revolution, because this icon of Place Vendôme had never, until today, changed its original round shape (except in 2022, during a collaboration with Chitose Abe, the creator of Sacai).
Marie-Laure Cérède, creative director of jewelry and watches at the house, admits: “The very idea of reinventing Trinity seemed almost an impossible feat.
But the challenge intrigued us, and we took the plunge.”
Squaring the circle
To celebrate its centenary, the red jeweler is offering two new Trinitys with bold designs.
A first version has a square head, with a sensual cushion shape where we find all the softness and mobility of the three rings, which slide over each other with the same naturalness as the round version.
A novelty which is available as a ring, bracelet and pendant, paved or not.
The second is also a masterstroke: it is a modular interpretation capable of forming a single ring, generously rounded, or three depending on your desires.
Interlocked, the circles unfold and reveal their diamonds as you move.
Trinity ring in 3 golds and diamonds, Cartier Photo Press / Cartier
The Cocteau touch
This jewel, symbol of love, has never stopped evolving.
From his birth, in 1924, he presented himself as a revolutionary.
Because imagining, as Louis Cartier did, a ring without precious stones with pure rings, stripped of all embellishments, was visionary.
American Vogue then nicknamed it Trinity, a name definitively adopted by Cartier in 1997. Its success was immediate, and while Cocteau contributed to its legend – the artist was one of the first to wear the ring and will evoke it in his poems like a jewel “coming from the sky” – the three rings with intertwined yellow, pink and gray gold attain the rank of icon.
Cartier Trinity ring, worn twice Photo Press / Cartier
A VIP jewel
Romy Schneider, Nicole Kidman, Alain Delon, Grace Kelly, Lady Di, Emmanuel Macron, Kate Middleton… We can no longer count the personalities who have adopted it.
Today, it's Timothée Chalamet who wears it on the red carpets, while Kylie Jenner appears with it on her Instagram with 400 million followers.
We bet that with its new versions, the Trinity should see its list of followers grow even longer.