It’s always great fun when a new film has a strong visual theme—and in the case of Wicked, which hits cinemas in Singapore today, green and pink are the order of the day. The signature green of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the pink of Glinda the Good have already hit peak merchandise and collaboration. There’s an Emerald City tote bag by Marc Jacobs, a green Apple iMac, Stanley tumblers, makeup collections by r.e.m beauty and M.A.C., Crocs clogs, and much more.
There are options on the jewellery front, too. For a truly witchy aesthetic, look to Pyrrha’s official collaboration with Wicked. The star designs are a series of lockets, offered in sterling silver or 14K gold, or strung with freshwater pearls. In search of higher-end designs? Consider, then, the Los Angeles fine jewellery brand Sydney Evan, which has released a Wicked collection with 99 styles.
Official collaboration or not, coloured gemstones are wonderfully placed to lean into the moment’s fever for green and pink jewels. But quite unlike the capital centrality of the Emerald City, there’s a much wider world of options to delve into. Green stones like peridot, tourmaline, malachite, prasiolite, tsavorite and jade open up a much broader range of options. As for pink stones, though the usual suspect is pink sapphires, there’s also a swathe of pink and rose quartz, opal, mother-of-pearl, spinel, topaz, and—if you’re looking to really splash out on something rare and covetable—pink diamonds and padparadscha sapphires.
Here, Vogue’s edit of jewellery set with a variety of green and pink gemstones to know.
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Anabela Chan Blush Cushion Wing Studs earrings in 18K white gold with laboratory-grown simulated pink and white diamonds, $2,859
Pink diamonds are some of the most wildly desired gemstones at the moment. Six-figure prices are common at auction, and just this year several have been headlined by pink diamond lots. Here is, perhaps, where laboratory-grown gemstones offer a plausible allure: the novelty and beauty at a fraction of the price.
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Bowen NYC Auroro Borealis necklace in lacquered 18K gold with pink spinels, US$12,250
Spinels are getting their due recognition now as a gemstone with impossibly broad chromatic possibilities. Here, the New York brand Bowen NYC has strung together pink spinels in varying shades and cuts on a neon pink lacquered chain.
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B.P. de Silva Deco Pop ring in 18K yellow gold set with an Asscher-cut green tourmaline, $2,500
The art deco symmetry of the famed Asscher cut is played front and centre in this ring by Singapore jeweller B.P. de Silva, set with a green tourmaline faceted by German lapidaries.
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Bvlgari Bvlgari flip ring in 18K rose gold with jade and diamonds, $6,440
A ring with two ways to wear it: luscious green jade on one side, and pavé diamonds on the other.
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Clash de Cartier single earring XL model in 18K pink gold with chrysoprase, $22,400
A burst of radiant green chrysoprase beads, capped with gold clous de Paris studs, adorns this single earring from the Clash de Cartier collection.
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Chaumet Exquises cocktail ring in 18K white gold, set with a green tourmaline and diamonds, $66,800
Tourmalines come in a wide range of colours, each formed by the tiniest variances in trace elements and ‘impurities’ in the mineral. When it comes to green tourmalines, a stone that is deeply and uniformly coloured is ideal.
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David Webb Draped ring in platinum, 18K gold and carved pink opal, set with a faceted Kunzite, $79,282
Kunzite is a relatively ‘new’ gemstone, and is named after the gemologist George Frederick Kunz who first identified it in 1902. It’s cherished for a specific nuance of pink: a soft, almost powdery pink with hints of violet.
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Garrard Jewelled Vault high jewellery ring in 18K white gold, set with an oval 4.79ct demantoid garnet and diamonds, price on request
One typically imagines a garnet to be red. But there is in fact a rare, green variety: demantoid garnets. These gemstones can be even sparklier than diamonds, have an entrancing verdancy to its colour, and tend to be found only in Russia or Namibia.
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Kavant & Sharart Twist Reflection necklace in 18K yellow and white gold, set with an emerald and diamonds, $9,150
Emeralds need little introduction or explanation. A lovely detail of these gemstones: its inclusions are dubbed a jardin, or garden, for the individuality that it gives each stone.
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Kavant & Sharart Twist Kaleidoscope necklace in 18K yellow gold, with tsavorites and plique-à-jour enamel, $2,200
In this necklace, a combination of tsavorite gemstones with translucent green plique-à-jour enamelling that enhances the sense of clarity.
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Lisa Eldridge Jewels The Betty ring in 18K gold set with a lavender quartz, £1,300
A type of rose quartz, lavender quartz has in it a lovely and pale lilac hue, with a touch more coolness than a pastel pink.
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Louis Vuitton Colour Blossom BB earrings in 18K pink gold with pink mother-of-pearl and diamonds, $5,800
Carefully carved pink mother-of-pearl creates a subtle volume and an opalescent beauty.
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Louis Vuitton Colour Blossom ring in 18K pink and white gold with pink opal and diamonds, $9,250
The sweetness of a powder-pink opal ball is adorned and highlighted with pavé diamonds.
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Mateo East West ring in 14K yellow gold set with a pink topaz and diamonds, $2,557
An emerald-shaped pink topaz is set sideways, flanked by a pair of diamonds. With a special coloured gemstone, it’s a good idea at times to simply let the stone speak for itself.
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Piaget Rose ring in 18K rose gold set with an oval green tourmaline, pear-shaped green tourmaline cabochons, and diamonds, $61,500
With a gemstone as beautiful as a green tourmaline, why stop at just one?
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Pomellato Nudo Classic earrings in 18K rose and white gold, with prasiolite, malachite and tsavorite, price on request
In this Nudo design, light green blocks of faceted prasiolites are set above squares of malachite. The result is an intense green when seen from the front, and a softer, more translucent green when viewed from the side.
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Pomellato Nudo Classic necklace in 18K rose gold with rose quartz, chalcedony and brown diamonds, price on request
The concept of a free gemstone, secured without prongs, is clearly visible in this Pomellato design with rose quartz and chalcedony. Its warm, pink colours are matched with brown diamonds set into the necklace’s bail.
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State Property Edessa Forest tennis bracelet in 18K yellow gold with tsavorites, $6,200
Proof of the natural variety in colour even among tsavorites, this wavy tennis bracelet design by State Property features an ombré gradient of green stones.
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Suzanne Kalan Ann ring in 14K yellow gold with peridot, US$1,485
Peridots have a wonderful lightness to their green, a colour that makes it a lively gemstone that can look young and fresh. Here, Suzanne Kalan has set a half band with emerald- and baguette-cut stones.
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Tiffany & Co. T Circle pendant in 18K yellow gold with green agate and diamonds, $5,650
Green agate adds a dimension of depth and allure to this Tiffany & Co. circular pendant design, the green stone framed by the round Tiffany T motif in diamonds.
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Van Cleef & Arpels Two Butterfly pendant in 18K rose gold with pink sapphires and diamonds, $18,300
Pink sapphires are the archetypal pink gemstone, enjoyed and cherished for the liveliness of its colour. Parisian jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels describes its criteria for selecting sapphires as such: “an ardent colour, a brilliant glow and a pure essence”.
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Jacquie Aiche ring in 14K yellow gold, set with a watermelon tourmaline and diamonds, $13,800
How about the best of both worlds? The watermelon variety of tourmaline has a gradient of green and pink in it—when selecting one, look for a stone that has been cut for a desirable balance of both colours.
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Stephen Webster Bound Together cocktail ring in 18K yellow gold, set with a morganite, diamonds and pink sapphires, £34,000
The centre stone in this cocktail ring is a morganite, an orangey-pink variety of beryls. The gemstone was originally discovered by George Frederick Kunz—of kunzite—and named after J.P. Morgan, the American industrialist and banker who was a noted gem fiend.
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Van Cleef & Arpels Perlée Couleurs ring in 18K yellow gold with malachite and diamonds, $12,700
Malachite is a gorgeous green stone with a distinct banded pattern. The stone itself may be fairly abundant, but specimens with beautifully ordered patterns can be rarer. At Van Cleef & Arpels, the maison selects and creates exclusively with stones that have straight, uniform veins.
