Oct. 6, 2025

The Standout Jewelry Moments from the
Spring/Summer 2026 Shows

WORDS RACHEL GARRAHAN

LOUIS VUITTON

From Prada’s precious colour pop to Schiaparelli’s glowing baubles, Rachel Garrahan gives an overview of Spring/Summer 2026’s can’t-miss jewelry trends.

With sales of fine jewelry continuing to be a ray of light in trying times in luxury, the Spring/Summer 2026 shows have demonstrated how the line continues to blur between it and fashion. At Foundazione Prada’s tangerine-hued Deposito space, Prada debuted its colorful, gemmy new fine jewelry collection while Demna Gvasalia made his debut at Gucci with a lookbook that paired his playful Gucci-nostalgia looks with diamonds and precious gems from the house’s high jewelry collection. In Paris, Messika celebrated its 20th anniversary with a catwalk presentation of its latest high jewelry collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

TAFFIN

In a major coup, Stella McCartney secured bold, minimalist jewels from Taffin, one of the world’s most sought-after contemporary art jewelers, whose super-luxe designs have been pushing the boundaries of design for almost two decades. Nadège Vanhée at Hermès meanwhile created the chicest neck mess weaving the house’s Chaine d’ancre necklaces with silk scarves in the collection’s earthy tones.

Louis Vuitton showcased its watchmaking prowess by presenting its LV I timepiece its show. The watch, worn on a chain belt exclusively for the show, was the house’s first real statement in watchmaking when it was created in 1988 by Italian designer Gae Aulenti, and is likely a signal of more to come.

LOUIS VUITTON

FENDI

SIMONE ROCHA

CAROLINA HERRERA

Creativity has also been on display in the fashion jewelry that has been presented in the spring summer shows. At the Pompidou Centre, Daniel Roseberry continued to push the boundaries by illuminating Schiaparelli’s presentation with the sculptural, ethereal glow of led-powered salt lamp necklaces and earrings. They were a nod to the house’s founder who, Roseberry noted, was described by Yves Saint Laurent as “a comet lighting up the night sky in Paris, intent on domination.”

PRADA

SCHIAPARELLI

The perennial seasonal trend of flowers came in supersized form courtesy of Julien Dossena at Rabanne. Simone Rocha meanwhile channeled her Disgruntled Debutante with oversized blooms and asymmetric, open necklaces of crystal flowers that spilled into the decolletage.

CHANEL

SIMONE ROCHA

CAROLINA HERRERA

SPORTMAX

TORY BURCH

Hi-shine metal was another recurring theme. Miguel Castro Freitas at Mugler showed Harry Bertoia-style grids of polished silver that wrapped sensually round the ear like diamond-studded scaffolding while Moschino’s Adrian Appiolaza toughened up muted beige with pairs of wrist-to-elbow silver cuffs.

COURRÈGES

MOSCHINO

RALPH LAUREN

LOUIS VUITTON

BOTTEGA VENETA

MUGLER

LOUIS VUITTON

VALENTINO

Louis Vuitton played with geometric shape, assembling hi-shine and textured blocks of gold in sculptural torqs that punctuated the fashion’s soft, romantic shapes and pastel hues. Contrast was also created by Bottega Veneta’s Louise Trotter when she mixed sharp-edged, mirror-polish cubes against drapey, soft-textured white.

COACH

GABRIELA HEARST

Elsewhere long, drapey bead necklaces signaled summer while pouches and pendants in leather created a tactile, understated chic at Gabriela Hearst and Talia Byre.

At London Fashion Week, Completedworks was alone among jewelry brands in making its own live presentation. This season, brand founder Anna Jewsbury cast Jerry Hall as a TV psychic in a tongue-in-cheek monologue penned by playwright Laura Waldren (following on the heels of Joanna Lumley and Debi Mazar in earlier seasons).

COMPLETEDWORKS

Inviting participation from the audience, including French actor Josephine de la Baume, Hall entertained all with her mystic readings of the jewellery and objects on display in a kind of QVC satire. Fiction or not, her words about the strong and enduring ties of jewellery to human emotion and memory rang resoundingly true: “And the more we touch things, the more we invest them with pieces of ourselves.”