CARO BERGONZI

C. Bergonzi is a born artist, who grew up in Monte Carlo, luxury capital, to become a multi-talented explorer. She earned international artistic recognition through years of dedication to her own research in various disciplines, including painting and metal sculpture. She was invited to exhibit at the 2010 World Expo, in Shanghai, at the United Nations in New York, and sold for charity by Sotheby’s. She recently had a spectacular retrospective of her work at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts. Her unusual journey has been chronicled by the press, on TV and in print, including the New York Times.

In parallel to her life dedication to the arts, she has a special love for high fashion and jewelry. Alumni of the prestigious Institut Francais de la Mode, she worked with Paris Couture companies – LVMH, Christian Lacroix and John Galliano, learnt jewelry making with suppliers for Ungaro and Givenchy and accessed the magic world of Francois Lesage embroidery mythic atelier. In New York, she has worked as a stylist with jewelry top brands, including her two favorites Van Cleef and Harpel and De Grisogono, with fashion designers and showrooms, advertising agencies and photographers, for still life jewelry images, musicians and more. Her work was featured on more than 400 pages of international magazine editorials. Among others, C. Bergonzi also served as the Fashion Editor of Trump Magazine and styled campaigns for Loreal Professional and others. Her own jewelry and accessories have been featured on the covers and in several magazines, including, Z!nk in the USA and Metropolis in Asia.

C. Bergonzi shares her time between her studios of Greenwich Village, NYC, and Monaco.

Crossing her authentic artistic vision and her expertise in Couture, C. Bergonzi’s jewelry design is very powerful. Unique in its diversity, from a perpetual exploration of themes, techniques and textures.

Kiss & Fly was her brand for the jewelry she made with the techniques she acquired in Paris haute couture. They were mainly beaded compositions, with semi-precious stones, such as garnets or turquoise, bone and glass beads. She recently came back to jewelry, after years of fine arts metal sculpture, to infuse it in small dimension for people to wear them. She works with precious metal work: silver, gold and vermeil.

The array of creations is large, including … fashion jewelry, non-conventional wedding bands, headpieces, earrings, delic