Colors, Flavors and Chunky, Uncut Diamond Rule Couture Week Jewels

PARIS — Vibrant colors, flavors and a greasy-looking black lump of uncut diamond dominated jewelry presentations during couture week in Paris, which turned out to be an intimate affair with a number of jewelers opting out this season as they gear up for the July shows. The Ritz served as host to several displays, including Chopard’s “exceptional stones,” Cindy Chao’s latest butterfly brooch, Suzanne Syz’s playful gem-encrusted aluminum and titanium pieces and Swarovski’s debut collection of lab-grown colored diamonds. Dior chose to show across town — transforming the Georgian embassy into a “Villa Dior,” complete with a café to display Victoire de Castellane’s bright and lively “Toi et Moi” collection. Boucheron, Chanel and Louis Vuitton, meanwhile, stuck to their own opulent Place Vendôme homes — Chanel brought in sprigs of heather from the Scottish highlands to stage its “Tweed”-themed collection and Boucheron installed a café on a lower floor and a boudoir upstairs. Vuitton, meanwhile, covered the windows in a dark film to show its star guest — the Soweto diamond. The size of a tennis ball, it is the second-largest rough diamond ever found, covered in a layer of black carbon. Louis Vuitton’s Sewelo diamond.  Courtesy Oglers streamed in for a viewing, winding their way

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