You can buy jewellery to wear, and jewellery that makes people from across the street ask: “Sorry, madame, where did you get that?” Vivienne Westwood’s latest collection of women’s jewellery is, once again, just a touch subversive.
Vivienne Westwood’s latest pieces feel compelling and, at least to our eyes, ready to go beyond runways and glossy fashion magazines.
For 2025/26, true to Vivienne Westwood’’s style and tradition, we can once again count on a collection that speaks our language – the very language that has made this British fashion house more than just a fashion icon.
Pearl chokers, the iconic orb running through all the house’s best creations, earrings that let you play on that very fine line between feminine and masculine. Vivienne Westwood’s latest jewellery collection once again speaks the language that made the British designer famous – a language we’ve gradually learned to claim as our own.
We have transformed ourselves through her iconic pieces, which have freely drawn on the great themes of streetwear from London’s happiest years. We have expressed ourselves through her equally iconic accessories – and now we’re ready to complete the picture with a jewellery collection that speaks to the most exclusive niche there is: ourselves.
The collection offers more than 300 signature pieces, ranging from pendants to necklaces, earrings to bracelets – almost all of them recalling the most recognisable codes of Vivienne style. Pearls set into metal bracelets or earrings, orbs paired with brooches that have a noble but never boring spirit, and colour.
From the most classic gold, silver and black to stones that opt for vivid red, turquoise, pink, and pieces lit up with crystal detailing.
Is there still room for tradition?
The big fashion houses – though not all, to be fair – are coming out of a period of serious identity crisis. And it’s not just fashion: the same thing is happening in the worlds of cars, fine dining, art. A sort of race to blend in, as if everyone were slightly afraid of representing the very tradition that a brand, a chef, a designer is meant to embody.
That is not the case with Vivienne Westwood, who, on the contrary, has absolutely no fear (let alone shame) of laying out the long journey that led to the creation of the jewellery in her latest collection. A long path that began on the streets of London punk, yet is set within a British regality that simply cannot be recreated anywhere else.
It’s a journey that has been anything but linear: it has allowed itself to be contaminated by the world around it, channelling some of those human types who have always found in Vivienne a harbour that’s turbulent, but safe.
A restless harbour made of wearable artistic creations, of clear messages conveyed through the way we dress as much as through what we say. And while it’s true that we’re all searching for a little peace, it’s just as true that we’re not prepared to trade away our freedom to express ourselves.
Farewell categories
The world of jewellery and accessories has, for far too long, been trapped in rigid categories: day, evening, special occasions or everyday. The liberating, almost revolutionary force of Vivienne‘s latest jewellery collection lies here too: in choosing what to wear and when to wear it, with pieces that never feel out of place and never make us look excessive or inappropriate.
Decisive, yes. Unique, yes. Original, absolutely. But never out of context. And for a jewellery collection, in a world where everyone is trying to shout the loudest (usually because it’s the content that’s missing), that is no small thing.
