Some collections arrive quietly, and there are those that rearrange the air in the room. For this special occasion, Bvlgari chose Milan (not Rome, its birthplace) to unveil Eclettica, its new High Jewellery collection. The choice was deliberate. Milan is Europe’s most moneyed city right now, a place where ambition wears good shoes, and the appetite for beauty is matched only by the means to acquire it. And yet, for all the city’s contemporary charge, what Bvlgari brought to Villa Arconati and Villa Necchi Campiglio that night was something older than fashion: a conversation between centuries.
The name says it all if you know your Greek. From eklégo (to choose, to select, to gather from many sources), Eclettica is the maximum expression in jewellery World. Lucia Silvestri, Bvlgari’s Creative Director, has spent her career listening to gemstones the way others listen to music. For this collection, she turned to sculpture, painting and architecture simultaneously, weaving them into a single visual grammar that is unmistakably Roman in soul, yet borderless in reach. The result is not a theme so much as a method: contrast as harmony, multiplicity as coherence.
Over 160 High Jewellery creations were presented across the two “Milanese” venues, attended by a constellation of global ambassadors: Anne Hathaway, Dua Lipa, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, Liu Yifei and Kim Ji-won among them. Yet the evening never tipped into spectacle for its own sake. The jewels held the room. They always do, when the jewels are this good.
At the heart of Eclettica sit nine extraordinary pieces christened the “Capolavori”, Masterworks. Each is less a jewel than a proposition: what can the human hand achieve when given extraordinary material and the freedom to follow it wherever it leads? The answer, in the case of the Secret Garden necklace, is breathtaking. Built around a 26.65-carat Padparadscha sapphire from Sri Lanka, that rarest of gems, suspended between rose and orange like a Roman dawn, the piece incorporates onice, violet sapphires, oval emerald cabochons and a pavé of diamonds totalling nearly eleven carats. Silvestri has described the stone as love at first sight. Looking at it, that seems entirely plausible.
Equally remarkable is Eclettica‘s record-breaking approach to transformability. Fifteen pieces in the collection are designed to be worn in multiple configurations, a bracelet that becomes a brooch, a necklace that separates into two. In an era where discerning collectors think in terms of decades and legacies, a jewel that evolves with its owner carries a different kind of value. Bvlgari has always understood that the finest pieces are not worn, they are inhabited.
The timing of the collection carries its own weight. Jean-Christophe Babin, who has led Bvlgari for over a decade, will hand the chief executive role to Laura Burdese on 1st July 2026 and will step into the chairmanship. Eclettica, then, is both a summation and a threshold, a collection that closes one chapter while opening another, with characteristic Roman confidence that the story will only improve.
That confidence is well-founded. In 2025, widely regarded as a difficult year for the luxury sector, Bvlgari recorded the strongest financial results in its 140-year history. The market, it turns out, does not lose its appetite for genuine beauty. It merely becomes more selective about where to find it.
Bvlgari Eclettica Collection… the most precise sense of the word: Masterpieces.
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Article edited by Pan Qi
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