Kate Moss and Valérie Messika bring their luxe jewels to the Paris Fashion Week runways.
When Kate Moss was a teenager, she bought a pair of gold and emerald earrings from Pennisi, the antique Milanese jeweler. It’s a surprisingly storied hang-out for a young Brit from Croydon—but then again, this is a young Brit who was, at the time, dating Johnny Depp. “Johnny bought me a string of diamonds when I was 19,” she recalls, “and I was so nervous about taking it off and losing it, I just wore it all the time—with jeans. I just loved it.
Moss hit it off with Valérie Messika, the daughter of a prominent diamond dealer and founder of the house, when they met on a campaign shoot for the company several years ago. “It was obvious from the start that she knew a lot about jewelry,” says Valérie. “She invited me to London to see her jewelry box, it was a mix of very high-end pieces and more affordable. I said to her, let’s do a collaboration. Let’s open many different doors. We had a lot of freedom, a lot of fun.
The stand-outs are the head-pieces, designed to be worn with nonchalance. “I had one [with me] on holiday when I was in Ibiza,” Kate recalls. “My daughter was by the pool in her bikini and she put it on and I was like, oh my God, that’s so genius—that’s how it should be worn.” Like Liz Taylor swimming in her ruby and diamond suite? “Exactly. Actually, I have a pair of Liz Taylor’s paste earrings,” she enthuses. “I got them at Bentley & Skinner.
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