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Boucheron serves up a night to remember

To have fashion scribe Suzy Menkes christen your event as the party of couture week is no small feat.

By all accounts Boucheron deserved the compliment. The party held in early July at the jeweller’s Place Vendome flagship featured a pink disco, jewelry roulette and “cigarette girls” wandering with gems on their trays in place of smokes.

It was all to celebrate a supersized diamond and sapphire necklace created in collaboration with industrial designer Marc Newson.

The design was inspired by fractals – geometric forms that can be subdivided into smaller versions of themselves – a Newson obsession. The Julia necklace, named after the sets of fractals discovered by Gaston Julia in the early 1900s, features florets of gems spiraling out from a galaxy-like central motif.

“It’s a work of art, something complete elaborate and impressive,” Lagerfeld muse Lady Amanda Harlech told Style.com. “It’s like the Big Bang in diamonds.”

In keeping with that celestial quality, the 2,000 paved stones are set so that they appear to be floating on the wearer’s skin.

With 1,500 hours of labour, the necklace rings in as one of the most expensive the house has ever made. Though you will have to express interest as a client to learn just how much that is.