The Most Exquisite Jewels From Paris Haute Couture

If you’ve been keeping up with our Paris Haute Couture coverage of the dreamiest dresses and the most intricate accessories, we’re now here to show you the most exquisite jewelry collections that also debuted this week on the runways.

These high jewelry collections, otherwise know as “haute joaillerie,” are some of the world’s most beautiful baubles, rolled out only twice a year, and only during haute couture week in Paris.

This season, historic jewelers like Boucheron are inspired by nature, whereas the opal is at the center of Dior’s high jewelry collection. Victoire de Castellane, artistic director of Dior Joaillerie, described the opal as “a very poetic stone.”

He continues to describe it as “an invitation to enter a fairy tale, to experience magic. When I look at an opal, I feel like I’m seeing the earth from afar, the oceans, the archipelagos, and the reflections of stars on ocean waves. … I see it as nature’s gemstone par excellence, a stone that’s so intertwined with femininity, its connection becomes organic.”

Intrigued to see what Victoire is referring to? Click ahead to see the most dazzling couture jewelry from Dior and more.

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