Wear your heart on your pinkie

Why Gen Z is in love with the 100-year-old Trinity de Cartier


At a glance

  • Surrealist, avant-garde, Dadaist artist Jean Cocteau wore it on his little finger as a symbol of his enduring love for the actor Jean Marais.


All over the world, the yearlong centenary celebration of Trinity de Cartier is drawing in the young.

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YOUNG, WILD, AND FREE Guests enjoying the Trinity100 celebration

 

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CHAMPAGNE STOP Davil Milan, Ryuji Shiomitsu, Shaira Luna, and Carlos Mangubat

It’s not because the new variations on the Trinity ring—a cushion-shaped version, a modular version, and the XL—are as thoroughly modern as what Louis Cartier, grandson of Cartier founder Louis-François Cartier, envisioned as a predecessor to modernity when in 1924 he designed the Trinity, a ring composed of three intertwined, mobile bands, then considered a daring concept in yellow gold, rose gold, and platinum.

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COCKTAIL HOUR Chelsea Robato, Ben Alves, KC Montero, and Stephanie Dods

 

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Mario Katigbak, Irene Martel-Francisco, and the author

In Manila, the Trinity100 celebration was unveiled with a pop-in concept at Greenbelt 3 and a cocktail-cum-club party at the boutique, replete with Trinity-inspired cocktails at the bar and a live DJ set, with Tatiana Rodrigo spinning the night away. 

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A SPECIAL TOAST Guests were treated to the Cartier Trinity Champagne Bar

 

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PICTURE PERFECT MEMORIES Guests were able to take their photos at the Cartier Trinity Interactive Photobooth

 

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TURN IT UP Tatiana Rodrigo DJs at the Cartier Trinity Celebration

But that’s not why the young came in droves, either. They came because, like Timothée Chalamet, a fan of the storied jewelry icon, GenZ are in love with the idea of Trinity and its rich heritage of deeply personal stories, including that of surrealist, avant-garde, Dadaist artist Jean Cocteau, who wore it on his pinkie as “the Trinity of Love,” a symbol of his enduring love for the actor Jean Marais, one band representing him, the second representing Marais, and the third representing the love they found in each other.

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RINGING IT IN Shaira Luna and Daryl Chang trying on the Trinity Collection

Fluid, geometric, symbolic, and a legend in contemporary jewelry, Trinity has become a manifesto of virtues universal, personal, timeless, and modern, such as love, friendship, diversity, and endurance.

 

The Trinity100 pop-in runs at Cartier Greenbelt 3 boutique until Oct. 6.

 

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BJ Pascual

 

 

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Dominique Cojuangco Hearn

 

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Gabbie Mariano

 

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Janine Gutierrez

 

 

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Kaila Estrada

 

 

 

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Stephanie Zubiri and Scott Woodward 

 

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Shaira Luna

 

 

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Stephanie Dods