{"id":33653,"date":"2026-07-20T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/33653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:05:12","slug":"dolce-gabbana-celebrate-italys-goldsmithing-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/33653\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolce & Gabbana Celebrate Italy’s Goldsmithing Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMILAN \u2014 With their latest high jewelry<\/a>, or Alta Gioielleria, collection, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana<\/a> paid tribute not only to their beloved Sicily but continued to celebrate Italy\u2019s goldsmithing tradition, reviving techniques that go back centuries and are practiced by only a few artisans today.<\/p>\n

\n\tCue the majolica miniatures depicting Sicilian landmarks that take months to be completed, the enamel requiring careful and multiple rounds of cooking. A marvel was the miniature charm depicting the Isola Bella on the Ionian Sea near Taormina, the Sicilian resort town where the brand last week unveiled the collection, together with its Alta Moda women\u2019s and men\u2019s couture offer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-day event last week for around 300 clients is \u201cunique in the market because it offers a holistic and consistent vision as part of a single experience and aesthetics across the board and strongly connected to the identity of the brand,\u201d said Stefano Cantino, who was named co-chief executive officer last April, <\/a>flanking Alfonso Dolce. \u201cThe collections are interconnected with one another as part of a single universe.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt other luxury brands, high jewelry<\/a> collections are often and generally given a separate spotlight, and several opt for showing during Paris Couture Week or stage dedicated itinerant fashion shows, such as Louis Vuitton <\/a>and Dior<\/a>, among others, who this year presented in Marrakech and Venice, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot so at Dolce & Gabbana, at least so far, also in light of the single artistic direction of the two founding designers and their creative control. \u201cEvery jewel stems from their sketch and original idea and the storytelling is a key element of every collection, and very much connected to the territory,\u201d said Cantino. \u201cClients respond well to the narrative, they are curious and engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile \u201cstrongly linked to the aesthetics of the clothes,\u201d Cantino said the jewels were not paraded by models on the catwalk but rather shown in glass display cases.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA necklace from Dolce & Gabbana<\/a>\u2019s high jewelry collection. [Photographer Thomas Legrand]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jewels are one-of-a-kind but Cantino said the brand\u2019s artisans, working in-house at its Legnano headquarters, less than 20 miles from Milan, also respond to specific made-to-order requests.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said the brand\u2019s high jewelry performs strongly among North and Latin American clients, as well as in Asia, with Chinese and Taiwanese clusters, and, more recently, Indian clients. Often customers are collectors, but they also buy across the three categories during the Alta Moda experience. In fact, the brand presents high watches and jewels for men, too, offering \u201cgrowth opportunities across the board,\u201d Cantino enthused.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe devotion heart is one of the leitmotifs of the collections, also present in the fashion designs, as is other religious iconography, from the Virgin Mary to Christian crosses. One example was the \u201csacred heart\u201d pendant necklace in white and pink gold with pink and rubellite tourmalines, rubies and diamonds. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA necklace from Dolce & Gabbana\u2019s high jewelry collection. [Photographer Thomas Legrand]<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a brooch, a delightful tiny winged cherub floated over a spiral shell in yellow and white gold brimming with tanzanites; peridots; chrome, multicolor and pink tourmalines; yellow beryls; aquamarines; amethysts and diamonds.<\/p>\n

\n\tYellow and white gold shells formed a necklace with aquamarines, rubellite tourmalines, tanzanites, amethysts, yellow beryls, morganites, diamonds and Akoya pearls, the shells so carefully and intentionally detailed that some appeared to be eroded or polished by the sea.<\/p>\n

\n\tA necklace in yellow, white and pink gold and titanium with blue zircons, rubellite and green tourmalines, kunzite, aquamarine, yellow and orange sapphires, tsavorite garnets and diamonds was highly representative of the brand and the island, embellished with lemons and other local fruits and flowers, shells, flowers and a winged cherub.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA necklace from Dolce & Gabbana\u2019s high jewelry collection. [Photographer Thomas Legrand]<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cColor is definitely another leitmotif of the collections,\u201d said Cantino.<\/p>\n

\n\tNature was also reflected in an incredibly detailed brooch in yellow, white and pink gold with blue sapphires, green and strong pink tourmalines, tsavorite garnets and diamonds depicting a delicate butterfly leaning on a flower stem.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first showing of Dolce & Gabbana\u2019s high jewelry took place in Portofino in July 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 With their latest high jewelry, or Alta Gioielleria, collection, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana paid tribute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16703,22544,22858,5],"class_list":["post-33653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-dior","tag-dolce-gabbana","tag-high-jewelry","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}