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From the world of fashion to fine jewelry, Caroline Hadida’s designs are reflective of her journey.
The Paris-based designer always has been inspired by architecture and spirituality, and in December 2025, her medium changed from fashion to fine jewelry with the launch of her brand Maison Marcelle, named after the grandmother who raised her.
Our Piece of the Week is from Hadida’s first collection, “Équation,” and embodies her transition from working in fabric to working in 18-karat gold.
The small version of the “Équation” bracelet, which launched at Couture earlier this year, is designed to flow around the wrist.
The bracelet is crafted from 18-karat yellow gold with 0.70 carats of diamond accents. It has 24 gold modules that were shaped and polished individually before being assembled in an order that makes the line of diamonds flow with movement.
“There is always a tension in my work between structure and movement. I start from a very simple element and repeat it—but never regularly. I work on heights, rhythms, solids, and voids,” Hadida said.
“The Équation is built on that repetition, module by module, and the heights are what create the movement. Flat, it looks architectural. On the wrist it becomes supple, it follows the gesture, it behaves almost like fabric.”
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The Paris-based designer always has been inspired by architecture and spirituality, and in December 2025, her medium changed from fashion to fine jewelry with the launch of her brand Maison Marcelle, named after the grandmother who raised her.
Our Piece of the Week is from Hadida’s first collection, “Équation,” and embodies her transition from working in fabric to working in 18-karat gold.
The small version of the “Équation” bracelet, which launched at Couture earlier this year, is designed to flow around the wrist.
The bracelet is crafted from 18-karat yellow gold with 0.70 carats of diamond accents. It has 24 gold modules that were shaped and polished individually before being assembled in an order that makes the line of diamonds flow with movement.
“There is always a tension in my work between structure and movement. I start from a very simple element and repeat it—but never regularly. I work on heights, rhythms, solids, and voids,” Hadida said.
“The Équation is built on that repetition, module by module, and the heights are what create the movement. Flat, it looks architectural. On the wrist it becomes supple, it follows the gesture, it behaves almost like fabric.”
As a fashion designer, Hadida headed Maison Marcelle Couture from its launch in 2021 through 2024, according to her LinkedIn.
She first exhibited her fine jewelry work at Couture in 2025 with the brand Jany Marcelle, which she was a co-founder of before transitioning to her current brand, Maison Marcelle.
Hadida said her switch from fashion to fine jewelry happened slowly, almost unconsciously.
“For years I worked with clothing: fabrics, volumes, the way a silhouette is built. Then I started looking at jewelry differently—not as an accessory, but as an object in its own right, a small piece of architecture placed on the body,” Hadida said.
“What held me was the material. Starting from raw metal and building something that will last, that won’t wear the way a garment wears, and the freedom it gives. In jewelry I can go much further in volume, proportion, articulation. A few millimeters change everything. That is where I found my language.”
The small Équation bracelet retails for $22,700 and is available on the Maison Marcelle website.
It is available in 18-karat yellow, white, or rose gold as well as two-tone.
Maison Marcelle is carried by Marissa Collections in Naples and Palm Beach, Florida, and as of Nov. 3, at Printemps Haussmann in Paris.
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