Phillips partners with Shaun Leane to launch online jewelry store


The Phillips auction house has launched an online jewelry store named “Flawless”, featuring buy-it-now jewelry on the Phillips website. For the unveiling of this private sales platform, Phillips is offering 12 fine jewelry and fine jewelry creations by British designer of contemporary jewelry, Shaun Leane.

For more than 20 years, Shaun leane has been at the forefront of contemporary jewelry design with creations combining elegance and avant-garde urban ambiance. He is perhaps best known for his long partnership with famous fashion designer Alexander McQueen, where he created large body adornments made of precious materials for the catwalk shows that were worn by world class models and icons. styles, such as Daphne Guinness, Isabella Blow, Kate Moss and Sarah Jessica Parker.

For this new venture, Leane has created a dozen items that are sold on the new online platform Flawless on the Phillips website. The site was launched a week ago. Parts prices range from $ 11,000 to nearly $ 200,000. Items are crafted in the Leane aesthetic with crisp edges, strong color contrasts and smooth curved lines with high level craftsmanship. The collection includes Leane’s most iconic fine jewelry and fine jewelry designs, as well as new bespoke pieces, created to mark Shaun Leane’s 21st anniversary.

“I see today’s woman as a romantic warrior, gracious, but also full of strength, conviction and courage,” Leane said in a statement. “I aim to intensify the power of jewelry and to create my jewelry to provoke different emotions – trust, fragility, seduction and protection – and to offer a sense of inner strength and identity. Above all, I want my jewelry to give a woman the freedom to be who she wants to be.

In addition to jewelry, Phillips offers a deluxe limited edition of the book “Shaun Leane”, released in July. It chronicles Leane’s career and features essays by gemologist and jewelry historian Joanna Hardy, V&A fashion curator Claire Wilcox, and writer, historian and jewelry journalist Vivienne Becker. The book, signed by Leane, is limited to 250 copies and is available for $ 500.

This collaboration between Phillips and Leane will continue in 2021 with an exhibition and sale dedicated to his work taking place in London and New York. The dates have not yet been announced.

The inaugural offering on Flawless also includes jewelry from other iconic jewelry houses such as Cartier, Chaumet, Mauboussin, Tiffany & Co. and Van Cleef & Arpels.

“Flawless provides an additional platform for online and offline sales for a 1 carat engagement ring, 10 carat hot pink diamond or Cartier” Tutti Frutti “Art Deco bracelet, allowing us to instantly engage with collectors 365 days a year in the medium of their choice, said Paul Redmayne, director of Phillips Private Sales, Jewelery. “Plus, Flawless will showcase the jewelers of today and tomorrow, giving them their rightful voice in what is traditionally a heritage market. ”