For its centennial, Fendi returns to its origins, Rome, a city in constant conversation with time, beauty, and water. The 2025 High Jewellery collection, designed by Delfina Delettrez Fendi, draws from the fountains that punctuate the city: carved stone scenes where mythology meets engineering, where stillness and motion collide.

Titled Eaux d’Artifice, a nod to Kenneth Anger’s cult 1954 short film and a quiet pun on the French word for fireworks, the collection is a meditation on fluidity, femininity, and permanence. Water becomes metaphor, structure, and ornament. Rome becomes a muse.

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At the center is the centennial necklace, a fully articulated piece anchored by a 20.25 carat Fancy Vivid Flawless Yellow diamond, tilted on the diagonal like a sunbeam. It’s framed by a fountain of round and baguette-cut white diamonds, and crowned with 100 pear-shaped yellow diamonds, one for each year since the house began.

The collection includes three parures, three cocktail rings, and a series of one-of-a-kind pieces that echo the gestures of water, with its curves and its clarity. In the Cento set, blue cushion-cut sapphires flash like oil across an ombré chain of white diamonds. The Ovato ring and bracelet center Santa Maria aquamarines, shaded with Paraiba tourmalines in pale electric blue. Fortuna, a spiral of rubies and white diamonds, loops into asymmetric curls, like water caught mid-fall.

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Even the collector’s rings seem to buzz with movement: the Alba ring sets an orange topaz in pink sapphires and garnet, while Carmina leans into rosy spinel. Esperidi glows with yellow sapphire, framed in white and yellow diamonds that flicker off stone.

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Fendi isn’t looking backward, it’s listening. To fountains. To folklore. To the language of minerals and monuments. A century in, the house isn’t still. It’s flowing forward, refracting the past into something precise, emotional, and in constant motion.