Year of the snake sees a jewellery trend upscaling

Chinese New Year ushers in all things serpentine: Financial Times shares a look at the latest trend sweeping jewellery. The snake, already a prominent design element in high-end jewellery, is set to gain even greater popularity, making 2025 a significant year for related product lines. Abundant in symbolism, the serpent is ubiquitous in jewellery design. Paris-based jeweller Elie Top’s creations have “distressed” silver scales and opals or rubies set at the heads. Los Angeles-based Azlee creates earrings that appear to slither around the lobes. And one of Elsa Peretti’s most enduring designs for Tiffany & Co, in 1974, was inspired by the end of a rattlesnake that she was given for good luck.