How To Elevate Your Look With Summer’s Fine Jewellery

Summer is in full swing here on Bond Street where this season's fine jewellery offering provides a veritable feast for the eyes. From Cartier to Van Cleef & Arpels, you'll find beautifully-crafted pieces imbued with gentle glints of colour. Soft fruit sorbet and ice cream-coloured palettes abound. Miniature gemstones, including ice blue topaz, lavender amethyst and blush pink quartz, make the news on rings and drop earrings. Elsewhere, jewellers favour the discreet shimmer of pearls paired with diamonds on delicate pendants and bracelets. Chains so fine they look as if they have been spun from sugar also top the current trends. Rose and white gold strands as delicate as these are best layered around wrists and ankles and on necklines for maximum effect.

For perfect pastel appeal, look no further than the celebrated British jeweller, Boodles. Pieces in its new Beach collection encapsulate that carefree feeling of barefoot luxury on soft sands. The brilliant-cut diamonds and Paraiba tourmalines in its new Beach design necklace flicker in white and mint green hues on a backdrop of 18-carat yellow gold. Other summertime hits can be found in its Florentine collection, which takes its cue from Leonardo da Vinci's scientific sketches of levers and pulleys. A large pink enamel and 18-carat yellow gold ring featuring a dazzling brilliant-cut diamond is just the ticket if you are planning on going from ship to shore for the evening.

Lightness and dynamism continue to be an endless source of inspiration for Van Cleef & Arpels. Colourful cocktail rings in the exquisitely designed Perlée jewellery collection include several vibrant ornamental stones - turquoise, carnelian and malachite. Here, two rows of delicate golden beads fan out on either side of the gem, along with a line of round diamonds. The collection is also enriched by two sets, made up of a bracelet and a pendant. It takes great skill to bring together a dome in yellow gold set with diamonds and a cabochon stone of turquoise or carnelian but each bracelet wraps effortlessly around the wrist.

Meanwhile, a fresh twist on summer's layering trend in which whisker-fine chains are paired with equally dainty designs, is given to finely spun bracelets at Tiffany & Co. Forming part of the Elsa Peretti Diamonds by the Yard collection, a stunning bracelet in 18k rose gold dances on the wrist thanks to the exquisite brilliant-cut round diamond at its centre. Elsewhere in this iconic series, a pair of Tiffany Victoria earrings are the result of a combination of cuts. On closer inspection, the stones play off each other's glorious sparkle.

Mikimoto's new 'M Code' collection is brimming with incandescent summer delights. These include featherlight 18k yellow gold and Akoya cultured pearl bracelets and fine chain necklaces. A pair of elegant pearl drop earrings also feature in this coveted collection that takes its name from the series of dots and dashes in the Morse code and the M of Mikimoto.

And trust Cartier to create unique pieces designed to glitter in the summer sunshine. Signature creations such as the Trinity bracelet crafted with white, rose and yellow gold and the Cartier d'Amour necklace set with a brilliant-cut diamond, are the perfect accompaniment to a crisp white shirt or beach kaftan.

With the forecast pointing to more sultry days and balmy nights ahead, if ever there was a time to elevate your summer wardrobe with one-of-a-kind jewels from Bond Street, it's now. Happy shopping!