At IPPOLITA, change does not come through a clean slate. For his first collection as creative director of the house, Piotrek Panszczyk returns to what has made it distinctive since 1999: jewellery conceived as volume, worn freely and able to hold gold, silver and colour together.
An archive that stays active
Presented on 13 September in New York, the Formed by Nature. Transformed by Hand. collection makes the archive a working material. The Ancient Bohemia pieces, associated with Ippolita Rostagno, are taken up as a starting point rather than a motif to reproduce. The undulating discs of the Wavy Disk thus become Wavy Coin; the Hippolyta form serves as the centre of a pendant that keeps the idea of relief and movement.
This shift has its logic. A jewellery house cannot be reduced to its most visible signs; it also rests on a way of letting forms pass between drawing, hand and body. Here, hammered surfaces and stacked volumes do not seek an effect of quotation. They extend a grammar in which the piece is read first in its material.
Mixing as a method
Gold and silver are deliberately combined, while colour comes in without becoming a mere decorative accent. This choice gives the collection a particular availability: the pieces are not sorted into an opposition between precious and everyday, nor into a strict hierarchy of metals. They invite layering and variation instead.
This attention to movement joins a broader question about contemporary jewellery: the value of an object also lies in what it allows one to do, repeat or transform over time. At IPPOLITA, the hand remains the tool that gives the form this relief; nature becomes less a backdrop than a vocabulary of curves, strata and surface.
A campaign without a set
The campaign, photographed by Danielle Neu, brings together figures borrowed from mythology — Minerva, Diana, Hypnos, Medusa, Hippolyta and Venus. The use of these presences does not document a historical collection; it builds an imaginary frame around jewellery conceived as objects of character. Art direction is by Bella Bruton and Ottilie Thompson, with styling by Katie Burnett.
The collection is announced from 13 September 2026 in the IPPOLITA boutique on Madison Avenue, on the house’s website and through a selection of retailers.
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