PARIS — Francesca Amfitheatrof has left Louis Vuitton, the place she was charged with designing positive and excessive jewellery collections.
In a press release launched Wednesday night, Amfitheatrof stated: “I’m extremely grateful to have been given the chance to create the jewellery and excessive jewellery collections for Louis Vuitton. After seven fantastic and intense years I’m so pleased with these collections and the legacy I go away behind as I embark on thrilling new endeavors, which I shall be asserting quickly.”
Louis Vuitton didn’t reply to repeated requests for remark Wednesday.
The model recruited the high-profile designer in April 2018 to supervise the design of the home’s jewellery and timepieces, at a time when Louis Vuitton had skilled its sights on invigorating the exercise.
Amfitheatrof’s current excessive jewellery providing for the home was the 100-piece opening chapter of the “Woke up Palms, Woke up Minds” assortment, with firsts together with totally traceable rubies, a yellow LV Monogram star-cut diamond and a tiara. She unveiled the 11 themes in June 2024 in Saint-Tropez, for which she explored the 100 or so years that adopted the French Revolution and ended with the 1901 Common Exposition.
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One other necessary current launch below Amfitheatrof was the positive jewellery line for males, additionally final 12 months. For that, she leveraged home codes and the playful persona of Vuitton’s founder’s grandson Gaston-Louis Vuitton within the 18-piece “Les Gastons Vuitton” assortment.
The road was articulated round three persona traits of this “attention-grabbing character and was not talked about very a lot,” Amfitheatrof instructed WWD on the time.
A globe-trotting designer born in Tokyo and skilled at Central Saint Martins in London, Amfitheatrof was on the time of her rent at Louis Vuitton most not too long ago recognized for her work heading the jewellery design staff at Tiffany & Co. In 2013, she grew to become the primary lady to carry that place on the storied American label. She exited the corporate in January 2018, the identical month Tiffany revealed Reed Krakoff can be the agency’s chief creative officer overseeing all product classes.
Amfitheatrof has additionally lived in Rome, Moscow, London and New York.
Her arrival at Louis Vuitton got here lower than a 12 months after the model opened its monumental flagship on the Place Vendôme in Paris. Anchoring the sq. dotted with excessive jewelers Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chanel and Chaumet, one other LMVH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned model, the constructing additionally homes a excessive jewellery atelier for Vuitton.
Amfitheatrof broke into the style and artwork world along with her personal line of silver jewellery introduced by Jay Jopling of the White Dice gallery in London in 1993.
