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Roger Vivier uses jewelry techniques for his new bags

Credit: Roger Vivier

 

Embroidery in 24-carat gold thread, smoky topaz threads, rhinestones and red tiger's eyes: these are the bags designed by Gherardo Felloni for Roger Vivier's new Pièce Unique collection, inspired by the city of Paris.

 

Seven bags for as many monuments of the Ville Lumière, which with their majesty and opulence have inspired the designer to build objects that are small works of art, made with techniques stolen from jewelry. To design them, Felloni started from the handle and the iconic buckle, key elements around which he built small masterpieces of craftsmanship. The satin canvas of the bags is in fact the perfect base on which to build complicated patterns, with zardozi (the classic gold and silver embroidery typical of Persian and Indian tradition) in 24-carat gold and networks of pearls and stones.

 

Inspired by the Opéra Garnier, Théâtral has a gold satin base embroidered on multiple layers to give it three-dimensionality. The handle is a tubular screwed on itself with a twisted effect while the buckle is made of Rainbow Jasper stones worked into semi-spheres.

 

The Palais Royal Pièce Unique bag is inspired by the Louvre: the Efflorescence buckle is decorated with pearls and rhinestones while the handle is created in two steps, first by creating a metal structure that guarantees solidity and then with a decoration in natural horn.

 

The Emblème is instead dedicated to the iconic Eiffel Tower and has a handle with 550 hand-applied stones, which are also found on the buckle associated with tiger's eyes and amber rhinestones, for a total of 18,500 stones that the maison's artisans have worked by hand and then used to give life to this unique piece.

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