Whether it is clothing or jewelry, strength is the key word in autumn and winter. This season, many jewelry brands have launched snake-shaped jewelry full of cold and strength-it winds up and shows its graceful posture; It wears luxurious new clothes, and its colorful colors contain lasting charm; It symbolizes rebirth, resurrection and immortality, and its charming roaming releases unparalleled mysterious power ... It has forged an indissoluble love-hate relationship with women in the Garden of Eden. Snake, an ancient symbol, symbolizes wisdom, life and eternity. It has been the eternal theme of jewelry design since the distant Greek era. This autumn, it came back with a lasting temptation-many brands of high-end jewelry showed the extraordinary beauty of snakes with many beautiful works. Star model
In 1960s and 1970s, Maria Felix, a famous Mexican actress, especially loved wild jewelry works. She not only customized the snake necklace and crocodile necklace to Cartier, but also wore two snake bracelets with different shapes in this precious photo-jewelry is not only the embodiment of luxury, but also the perfect presentation of her personal style.
Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, is a classic movie, but Taylor's appearance in snake jewelry on the set of that year is equally classic and unforgettable. Unlike Maria Felix, a famous Mexican actress, who wears a snake bracelet, Taylor explains another gorgeous beauty of snake jewelry.
Snake Necklace/Chopin
Sapphire and diamond use the unique supernatural feeling of cool colors to create snake-shaped necklaces. A rare large carat diamond is attached to the snake's mouth, which makes people sigh the luxurious beauty of the whole work, as if they also feel the cold breath from the snake.
María Félix was a wild Mexican actress in 1960s and 1970s. She challenged Cartier and designed a snake necklace. Cartier Paris Studio specially created an amazing work of art for her, consisting of 2,473 diamonds, with a total length of 57 cm and a weight of 600 grams. The whole necklace looks lifelike and full of spirituality, as if it can swim freely.
The myth of mysterious totem
Snakes have mysterious characteristics, which make people hold various imaginations for a long time. They often appear in the myths and folk traditions of almost every culture in the world.
And various ancient civilizations naturally have various legends about snakes. For example, the Aztecs and Egyptians believe that the continuous shedding of snakes symbolizes reproduction, rebirth, resurrection and immortality. Especially in Egyptian mythology, Isis, the goddess in charge of development and reproduction, is particularly closely related to snakes. According to legend, she gained the healing power through the help of snakes.
In Greek mythology, snakes play an important role in symbolizing life, often representing healing, death and rebirth. In the symbolic system, the snake is related to the soil and the water overflowing from the soil, which makes the snake immortal, thus representing the vitality contained in the earth.
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Ring /Boucheron
Resurrected snake ornaments
The snake-shaped theme has also appeared repeatedly in the history of jewelry design, which has the function of decoration and appeasement. In fact, with the spread of Isis culture in Egypt to the Roman Empire, the symbol of snake became an important source of inspiration for countless jewels at that time, such as a multi-spiral gold bracelet with scales and eyes made of precious stones or glass sand.
Because the symbol of snake is also related to the devil, the image of snake can hardly be seen in medieval European jewelry. It was not until the middle of19th century that the image of snake reappeared, especially in bracelets and necklaces made of elastic gold chains, which were often paired with turquoise. From about 1890, the snake theme gradually became popular in the jewelry of the new art trend. Drawing inspiration from the past (especially the Renaissance), this noble graphic tradition is revived again.
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