The Highly Anticipated Jewelry Collection Featuring the Renowned Sculptor’s Work is Finally Available
Loewe has launched its jewelry collection created in collaboration with renowned American sculptor Lynda Benglis. First debuted at the house’s Spring 2024 runway show – the set design of which also featured the artist’s work – the collection encompasses 20 designs, each conceived as a piece of wearable sculpture.
Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has employed a variety of materials including beeswax, latex, vaporized metals, and ceramic to explore the physicality of form. She has worked as a sculptor, painter, and filmmaker, bringing to each medium a concern for the duality of process and final form. In her sculpture in particular, a fruitful tension between these ineluctable concepts is exposed as she exploits material processes to create pieces that are both dynamic yet inert, organic yet industrial, abstract yet familiar.
For Loewe’s Spring 2024 women’s runway show, six large-scale bronze sculptures by Benglis were selected to grace the space. Each piece was enlarged and cast from a series of clay works titled Elephant Necklace, which was created through a process that involved twisting extruded lengths of soft clay into dynamic forms.
Fluidly extending the art on the runway to that worn by the models themselves, the partnership moves deeper into the world of fashion through the jewelry that Benglis created for and in collaboration with Loewe. Transformative rings, cuffs, brooches, earrings, and pendants are crafted as wearable sculptures that reflect the shifting world around them. The jewelry pieces are knotted, pleated, poured, twisted, and extruded, made from materials including gold, sterling silver, crystal, aluminum, and enamel.
The collection is now available in Loewe stores and on the brand’s website. In the U.S., the collection launched exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman on May 6, and was highlighted with a pop-up space in the store’s Luxury Room and a presence in its iconic Fifth Avenue windows
