When Lyndsey Ingram hosts dinners at her namesake gallery in the Mayfair district of London, the art on her walls initially grabs her guests’ attention. But by the time they are seated at the table, it is her Saint Laurent goldtone metal cuff with a cutout heart that fascinates them.
“I often find myself taking it off and passing it round,” she said of the cuff, which she bought for 350 pounds ($442) on the Matches website in 2021 and, on this day, was wearing over the sleeve of her Eric Bompard cashmere sweater.
It is “the last thing I put on before I go out the door,” she said. “Because it’s like armor. You need it when you are out of the house.”
Little wonder that cuffs are expected to make a big statement this spring.
Take the oversize 18-karat brushed yellow gold cuff featuring a large slice of opal, more than 54 carats of Paraiba tourmalines and other colored gems ($125,000), designed by Margot McKinney, a jeweler in Brisbane, Australia. Or the 18-karat yellow gold Owl Bangle, with huge kaleidoscope-pattern eyes, sapphire and diamond accents and gold wings that curve around the wearer’s wrist ($70,000), created by Lauren Harwell Godfrey of California’s Marin County. Or the architectural Waved Goldtone Arm Cuff, in brass, by Julien Dossena for the Paris fashion house Rabanne ($690).
And then there is the Aïda cuff in orange enamel and orange spessartines ($109,500) because, the Beirut jeweler Selim Mouzannar said, “the color is hot.”
