Bvlgari

Marie-Laure Cérède spent twenty-five years moving between Cartier, Harry Winston and Cartier again before Chanel announced on 9 June 2026 that she would lead its jewellery creation studio from October — the latest beat in a generation-long pattern of place vendôme jewellery talent circulating between five or six addresses. Her appointment at Chanel Joaillerie is not a hire from outside the square. It is a transfer within it: a designer trained in the workshops above 13 Rue de la Paix, seasoned at a New York house owned by Swatch Group, then returned to Cartier for a decade, now crossing the Rue de Castiglione to 18 Place Vendôme. The Place Vendôme jewellery talent market is small — a few dozen specialists in total — and the same names keep reappearing in different windows along the arcade. ...

For the first time in La Biennale di Venezia’s 130-year history, the institution has named an Exclusive Partner — Bvlgari, on a 2026–2030 contract that spans three editions of the Art Biennale and anchors a purpose-built Spazio Esedra pavilion in the Giardini and a Fondazione Bvlgari collateral show in the Marciana’s Salone Sansovino. This is what the Bvlgari Venice Biennale partnership actually is: not a sponsorship line in a catalogue, but a title invented for the occasion, written into the institution’s architecture of patronage so that the LVMH-owned Roman jeweller occupies a tier above every other corporate name attached to the 61st International Art Exhibition. No monetary figure has been disclosed, and we are not going to invent one. ...