Isabelle Huppert Wears an Elsa Jin Brooch at Rome Film Festival
For the effervescent preview of the film Caravaggio, Isabelle Huppert wore Elsa Jin's Life 2023 brooch, in the continuity of the Life brooch series.
To shine on the red carpet and enhance an evening dress, what could be better than a diamond brooch? Isabelle Huppert would agree. Walking the steps at the Rome Film Festival for the film Caravaggio, the actress wore a Giorgio Armani dress, enhanced with the Life 2023 brooch from the Elsa Jin jewelry house. An exceptional piece of nearly 3250 diamonds, it has an impressive Garnet, which spreads its wings like a goddess of victory, signifying freedom regained. The diamonds of different colors illustrate the angel wings after the fight, like the phoenix rising from its ashes.
This brooch in question comes from a series of four models that follow each other consistently, year after year. With its two broken wings, the Life 2020 brooch symbolizes the fear and anguish generated by this troubled period when time stood still. It is illustrated by an aquamarine gem surrounded by a multitude of old-cut diamonds. Articulated around a colored sun, the Life 2021 brooch depicts the wounded wings entwined—a sign of retreat as a kind of self-protection reaction in the global panic. Full of hope, the Life 2022 brooch extends one wing into space while the other stretches into the future.
A great traveler, in 2011, Elsa Jin found herself facing the statue of Christ on the Cross in Malbork, Poland. From this immense shock was born the desire to develop her series of Life brooches to be placed on her heart, which originally represented the wings of a wounded angel, but also represent renewal, vitality, and rebirth.
"With these brooches, I wanted to glorify the strength of God, and the relationship between the West and the East so that we come out of the night towards the light and that we [walk] together towards a more harmonious and peaceful world," explained the designer.
With a talented architect father, Elsa Jin learned very early to paint and draw from nature, and from the sculptures of the Han dynasty. In China, all the art forms come from a very ancient tradition and continue to be taught in the same way since the dawn of time.