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Gaia Repossi is the daughter of the master jeweler Alberto Repossi. Gaia was appointed creative director and designer of all Repossi collections, turning the label into the most wanted fine jewelry brand of the moment and casually earning her master’s in archaeology and anthropology along the way. She is talking about her creative process, why pink diamonds are so precious, and how opulence can be redefined in the 21st century.
It always starts with a pattern—a shape, a sculpture, a drawing, a grid. It can be the way some kid in Ethiopia wears an earring, or a line of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. My references come from contemporary art, and the effects of metal within modern sculpture and architecture. I take inspiration from the works of Alexander Calder, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Richard Serra, and Le Corbusier, as well as from the brutalist, minimalist, and Bauhaus movements. I like blending and pushing the boundaries between architecture and traditional high jewelry techniques. I also like working through systems. So one idea can be done in infinite variations. If we take the Berbere series as an example, it comes in more than 1,500 variations: one row, two rows, three rows, seven rows. Thin row, thick row, colors, pavé. I like the idea of infinite possibilities.