Springtime in Paris: Introducing the Spring 21 Collection

Celebrating contradictory glamour, the Spring collection is instinctive - spontaneous, immediate, reactive. Opposites always attract, and glamour can be found in paradoxes, through unexpected contradictions. Natural materials contrast with techno fabrics. Pearls decorate for day. Colours collide for a vibrant clash.

Materials are important - their physicality, their natural form, are used to find new decorative approaches. The linear shapes of slick, polished eel skin allows geometric contrasts: the RYA mule, with a delicate fluted heel, is sliced with bands of black and cognac - key neutrals, drawn from the ‘90s but eternally relevant. Eel-skin is translated to the BON BON BUCKET, a new roomier evolution, for day or night, suspended from a tough silver bracelet.

The contradictory ethos of toughness and precious, fusing bijoux with accessory, is evoked through studs that embellish the MATTY mule allowing a focus on the sensuous shape of the vamp and solid block heel, each delineated with silver studs. Tortoiseshell is used as a new animal expression: unexpected, inspired by the universe of design, it is translated to flats and heels, as well as bags including the iconic CANDY clutch and the VARENNE CLUTCH, in black textured patent it is given a tortoiseshell resin chain.

The emphasis is on shape and form - the architecture of the shoe precisely outlined. Clean, slick, polished and sculptural. Finished with embellishments - joyously, exuberantly, as always with Jimmy Choo. Crystals inlay a delicate ankle-strap, decorative but also part of the structure, a blend of form and function. The SAE is a contradiction in terms: a vibrant fuchsia satin sandal, gracefully curved and lassoed to the ankle with a crystal anklet, it leaps out from the palette of new Jimmy Choo neutrals - a wild card, like Grace Jones herself. It finds a counterpart with the BON BON executed in its most jewel-like incarnation, a preciousness, a precision, a purity, found in every facet.