Byzantium in jewelry
A Byzantine flair has just made its way into the elegant premises of a high jeweler. «Czarina,» a new fine jewelry collection designed by Gaia Repossi and Eugenie Niarchos for Repossi Jewelers, was unveiled to a high-flying, jet-setting crowd in Paris last week. The evening, which unfolded at the Ritz Club, attracted the likes of Princess Caroline of Hanover and Karl Lagerfeld. For 21-year-olds Gaia and Eugenie, however, it was also a means of celebrating a longstanding friendship. Gaia, a fourth-generation Repossi, and Eugenie, granddaughter of the late shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, joined forces to design a collection which is part of Repossi’s new line, «Ere.» Billed as «young and dynamic jewelry,» the Ere line wishes to attract a new generation to the Repossi name. Inspired by Byzantine iconography, «Czarina» features rings, cuff bracelets, earrings and pendants. A business founded by G. Pietro Repossi in 1920, the first Repossi store was established in Turin by Constantino Repossi in 1920. It is third-generation Alberto Repossi, however, who took the family name beyond Italy’s borders by establishing a boutique in Monte Carlo in 1977 and at Paris’s exclusive Place Vendome in 1985. Last year, Gaia Repossi became the luxury house’s artistic director.
