Boghossian’s Queens of Time: 39 jewels inspired by 11 historical queens

The useful part

Get the top stories in fashion, beauty and lifestyle straight to your inbox. Boghossian's new high jewellery collection honours 11 queens by Jessica Michault September 30, 2026 There are many ways in which we communicate who we are — and who we aspire to be. We furnish our homes, curate our online and offline presence, surround ourselves with people who inspire us, and dress according to the version of ourselves we want the world to encounter.

How it works

• Perhaps the most fascinating thing about jewellery is that what we wear does not simply express how we feel, but has the capacity to shape it.
• Yet few of these expressions of identity are quite as intimate as jewellery.
• If jewellery is worn so close to the body, can its influence reach further?
• Can jewellery change the way a woman experiences herself — her desirability, her confidence, even her power?
• What happens when the object adorning her body has itself been designed to embody some of history's most formidable women?

What to take from it

Across 11 remarkably different women, Boghossian translates the intangible — courage, authority, resilience, softness — into something that can be seen, touched, and ultimately worn. These are the questions that sit at the heart of Boghossian's latest high jewellery collection, Queens of Time. The collection consists of 39 jewels inspired by 11 queens, exploring not one definition of female power, but the many forms it can take.

Example or evidence

• Can a diamond-encrusted cuff change the way we enter a room, or a ring become a physical reminder of the person we want to be?
• It is that emphasis on feeling that makes Queens of Time particularly compelling.
• If the designer's task is to translate the intangible qualities of a woman into something material, what exactly is the desired outcome when another woman puts that object on?
• Jewellery has, after all, historically allowed women to make power visible long before they were necessarily permitted to articulate it politically.

Details worth keeping

Boghossian's new high jewellery collection honours 11 queens. It sits closer to the body than almost anything else we wear. Cleopatra VII understood the potency of image particularly well.

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