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that is a big investment, so people want to incorporate it into their wardrobe,” he says. To wit, even the collection’s most intricate diamond pieces can be layered together with casual pieces. “There’s something to the permanence of joy— the fact that jewellery is something that lasts
for a very long time, that people really develop
a relationship with it, and it becomes really personal.”
Personal style is at the heart of the T1 collection, and for many, that means amping up the contrast. “A lot of the design work I
do is about juxtaposing two ideas that aren’t necessarily expected and figuring out a way to create a new point of view within a collection,” says Krakoff of the choice to debut with
rose gold, a decidedly feminine offset to the collection’s angularity. (T1 will be released in yellow and white gold later this year.)
The T1 collection was conceptualized in a pre-COVID-19 world, but with a bit of finessing for the realities of 2020, launches alongside
the announcement of a $1-million donation to COVID-19-related relief causes by the Tiffany & Co. Foundation, half of which was allocated to the World Health Organization’s initiatives.
Photos courtesy of Tiffany & Co.
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