Tiffany & Co offers fine jewellery designed by the ultimate multi-hyphenate, Pharrell Williams
To write about Pharrell Williams is to defend the much-overused term multi-hyphenate. There is no other moniker for him – although, granted, if you were to actually hyphenate a list of the very many hats he wears, the result would be near unreadable. Fashion designer has been one of those for over two decades, well prior to his appointment as creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. He designed the Millionaires sunglasses for that brand in 2004, alongside Marc Jacobs – they still sell today. This year, Williams has turned his hand to jewellery, creating a range for LVMH stablemate Tiffany & Co. They have their own long-standing tradition of collaboration – think of Jean Schlumberger, who moved over from designing bijoux and buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli in 1956, or of Elsa Peretti, whose ergonomic forms and diamonds-by-the-yard revolutionised Tiffany specifically and jewellery more widely in the 1970s. Now it's Williams’ turn: his spear-shaped designs draw inspiration from the form of the trident of Poseidon for a range Tiffany calls Titan, mixing diamonds, gold and Tahitian pearls – which is maybe where that watery influence comes in.
The Tiffany Titan by Pharrell Williams bracelet is available in yellow gold with pearls and diamonds and in yellow gold with diamonds now.
