Fashion

A bracelet for breakfast

By May-Britt Mobach | #!30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:004730#30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:00-6Europe\/Amsterdam3030Europe\/Amsterdam202630 24am30am-30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:006Europe\/Amsterdam3030Europe\/Amsterdam2026302026Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200076074amFriday=9#!30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:00Europe\/Amsterdam4#04-24-2026#!30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:004730#\/30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:00-6Europe\/Amsterdam3030Europe\/Amsterdam202630#!30Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0200+02:00Europe\/Amsterdam4#

Imagine finding a Tiffany bracelet on your breakfast plate regularly. Just to start the day a little nicer. Jackie Kennedy Onassis often found ‘something nice’ from her favorite jewelry house during her marriage.

She received her first Croisillon bracelet from her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, who bought the bracelet in 1962 at Tiffany & Co.. A golden catch that tasted like more because Jackie quickly amassed a wonderful collection that she stacked around her wrist. With the softly hugging bracelets, you heard Jackie coming before you saw her. The name Croisillon bracelet soon became popularly known as the Jackie Bracelet after its famous wearer.

Jean Schlumberger is the creator of this bracelet and much more beauty from the house. If it had been up to his parents, he would have become a banker in Berlin, but Jean had very different plans and felt that Paris was the place he needed to be. So off he went. The great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened the gate to his dream world by asking him to design her buttons. With his fantastic imagination, he created wonderful figures such as sea creatures, shells, and interpretations of plants. Tiffany & Co. involved him in 1956 for their jewelry house where he was soon noticed by Diana Vreeland (editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar) and Greta Garbo. They were among his regular clients. If I could travel back in time for an afternoon with a time machine and be a butterfly on the wall (I’d rather not be a fly), I would love to peek at how Jean Schlumberger was sketching while his friend, the millionaire and philanthropist Bunny Mellon, was sitting comfortably with him.

What I find admirable about Tiffany is that they always put their designers in the spotlight and also give them their own stage, like Elsa Peretti and Jean Schlumberger. Now, in 2026, nearly 40 years after his death, Tiffany honors the work of Jean Schlumberger with a new collection. Blue Book 2026 is a high jewelry collection designed by Nathalie Verdeille, senior vice president and chief artistic officer of Tiffany & Co, and the design studio of the house, and builds on the rich tradition of Blue Book collections, especially honoring the work of Jean Schlumberger. The boy who was supposed to become a banker but thankfully forged his own path.