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Gucci's New High Jewelry Collection Brings the Garden of Eden to Life

In Gucci's latest high jewelry collection, Alessandro Michele imagines an otherworldly garden of delights fashioned for private, intimate enjoyment.

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For all of nature’s subtleties, much of it is wildly maximalist as well. Towering waterfalls, grand sunsets, and majestic beasts – these are some of the awe-inspiring symbols that Alessandro Michele taps on for Gucci’s new high jewelry collection, Hortus Deliciarum (Latin for Garden of Delights.)

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The collection contains 130 pieces of jewelry, divided into four chapters that each represent a different element of nature. In the animal kingdom section, roaring lion heads clasp verdant tsavorites, while a chapter inspired by natural landscapes recalls the drama of the Roaring Twenties with its fringed necklaces and chandelier earrings.

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Yet for all the splendor of the collection, Michele opts to stage the campaign in a private garden akin to Eden itself – furthering his narrative that life’s pleasures, no matter how grand, are best savored in private.

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