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