On January 9, 2025, the Comité Colbert, the body representing French luxury goods, appointed a new member. It is the Messika jewelry house. Since its creation in 2005, founder and artistic director Valérie Messika, has sought to dust off the image of diamonds, whether through design, storytelling or the presentation formats of her collections.
By joining the Comité Colbert, Messika has made official its move into luxury, which began twelve years ago with its first haute joaillerie collection. Since 2022, this annual collection has had its own fashion show, whose execution and the buzz generated at the height of Fashion Week are reminiscent of those of Chanel (where the founder once worked) and L’Oréal Paris.
Having succeeded over the past twenty years in achieving the tour de force of combining the timelessness of diamonds with modernity, the Parisian House founded by Valérie Messika, herself the daughter of a diamond-maker, was bound to win over the Comité Colbert.
A unique collective in France, its mission has remained unchanged since it was founded in 1954 by Jean-Jacques Guerlain: “topassionately promote, sustainably develop and patiently pass on French know-how and creation in order to inspire dreams.
As of January 1, 2025, the Comité Colbert includes 96 French luxury goods companies, 18 cultural institutions and 6 European members.
A new jeweler joins the Comité Colbert
At the start of 2025, the Comité Colbert welcomes the House founded by the eponymous designer, Valérie Messika. A significant year, since it was twenty years ago that Valérie Messika, daughter of the famous diamond merchant André Messika, founded her own jewelry house.
In other words, Messika appears to be the youngest member of the jewellery committee, judging by Mellerio (1613), Cartier (1847), Boucheron (1858), Zolotas (1895) and Van Cleef & Arpels (1906).
A youth that the jewelry house shares with Baumer – Place Vendôme (1992), thirteen years his senior, founded by one of his idols, Lorenz Baumer. Her other inspirational figure is Maison Chanel (1912), obviously one of the Comité Colbert’s tutelary members.
Founder and artistic director of the House, Valérie Messika declared herself “ proud and happy to join the Comité Colbert, which is the voice of French know-how and excellence. It’s an honor to be able to contribute to its edifice. Our innovation coupled with our jewellery expertise are part of the values that contribute to our country’s influence.”
For the Comité, it’s a question of upholding the values of excellence in French know-how and contributing to the international influence of France’s art de vivre. Jewelry is one of the 14 luxury professions in France defended by the collective, alongside perfumery, fashion, goldsmiths, gastronomy, wines and spirits, design, music and decoration.
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