I remember the Cartier Love bracelet making it onto my vision board more than a decade ago, and then that vision becoming a reality for my birthday the next year, as a gift from Vlad. One thought that popped into my head after getting my first Love Bracelet was that I wanted one with stones of different colors, not just diamonds. A stone that signified one of my kids’ birthstones could be an easier justification, or just an entire rainbow of gems, because it would make me happy. I wasn’t alone.
While the Love bracelet mostly stays true to its original design, various updates have occurred, the most recent being the Love Unlimited line, which gave the typically structured icon a more malleable shape. Fans have been begging Cartier to bring back its Rainbow line, which was first introduced in 2009 with different colored gemstones and later expanded into a full rainbow line. The collection quietly stopped being produced, but fans didn’t stop wanting it, and now it’s back.
Officially launched this June, the new Love Color Capsule from Cartier has introduced a vibrant expansion of one of its beloved Love collections. While the capsule includes several entirely new gemstone interpretations, the pièce de résistance is undoubtedly the return of the coveted Rainbow Love bracelet.
The collection introduces six colorful new interpretations of the iconic bracelet, replacing the signature screw motifs with gemstones that transform one of jewelry’s most recognizable silhouettes into something entirely fresh.
Cartier’s Love Bracelet Gets Its Most Colorful Update Yet
According to Cartier, the Love Color Capsule is designed to “electrify” the iconic bracelet through color. Rather than altering the bracelet’s instantly recognizable oval silhouette, Cartier has focused on what has always defined the design: its signature screws.
The capsule comprises six new models in yellow, rose, and white gold, offering everything from subtle pops of color to fully pavé-set gemstone bracelets.
The Return of the Rainbow Love Bracelet
For longtime Cartier collectors, this isn’t an introduction; this is a return.
Often referred to by collectors as the Rainbow Love Bracelet, the design features an array of colored gemstones arranged around the bracelet, adding color and variety. After being discontinued several years ago, the bracelet has become increasingly difficult to find on the second-hand market, making it something of a modern collector’s favorite.
Its return immediately makes this one of Cartier’s most exciting Love releases in recent memory.
Six New Gemstone Interpretations
Among the highlights are warm-toned versions featuring pink sapphires, yellow sapphires, orange garnets, and amethysts, alongside cooler interpretations incorporating blue sapphires, aquamarines, purple spinels, and amethysts.
Perhaps even more notable, Cartier is introducing fully pavé-set Love bracelets set entirely with blue sapphires, pink sapphires, or garnets, marking the first time a different-color pavé version of the Love collection has been added.
How Much Does the New Cartier Love Bracelet Cost?
Maison Cartier confirmed on Instagram that the multi-gem Love Bracelets will retail for $20,500 USD before tax. With some versions going up to $21,900.00.
Pricing for the remaining Rainbow Love collection is as follows: The pink Sapphire and green Tsavorite models are $71,000.00, while the blue Sapphire is $76,000.00.
Like many of Cartier’s more exclusive launches, the collection will be available exclusively through Cartier boutiques, with online purchasing unavailable at launch.
While I have you, if the full Rainbow Love Bracelet is taunting you but you can’t track it down (and/or it costs too much), one of the original releases is being sold in excellent condition for only $10,250, which seems like a deal.
Is the Love Color Capsule Limited Edition?
Cartier has described the release as an annual capsule collection, though the Maison has not publicly disclosed production numbers for individual pieces.
Rumors circulating among luxury jewelry collectors suggest certain colorways may be limited to as few as 50 examples worldwide, though Cartier has not confirmed those reports.
Whether those numbers prove accurate or not, boutique-only availability and the return of the Rainbow Love bracelet are likely to make this one of the year’s most closely watched Cartier launches.
A Fresh Chapter for an Icon
Rather than redesigning an icon, Cartier has chosen to celebrate it through color, offering collectors something that feels simultaneously familiar and entirely new.
For those who missed the original Rainbow Love bracelet, or simply appreciate Cartier at its most playful, the Love Color Capsule may become one of the House’s most desirable releases of the year.
Coveted by Mar-a-Lago-faced women.
Stay mad, uggo.
I didn’t realize that bracelets reflected an ideology. I would imagine it would be coveted (or not) by women on both sides of the aisle.
Hahaha good one 😍
Hyper trashy look IMHO but whatever makes you happy is whatever makes you happy!
Hello Trashy should be the title of this post
So expensive and yet so cheap for looking
Wearing 1 or 2 is cute, stack them all feels like gauntlet.
I’d personally love two! Thankfully for me, having too much jewelry on actually bothers me, so I don’t have to worry about that 😉
Some of these are exquisite, but less is more. Vanessa Bryant looks like she went to a craft fair and bought a job lot of loom bands.
Let’s give Vanessa Bryant a pass shall we? Anything that woman does on a daily basis to get her through the day is OK by me and I support her by not making a comment about her. If she wants to put on every single bracelet that Kobe gave her, I’m here for it.
Ewe! Who would want to wear a gift from a rapist?!
He’s dead and you think she shouldn’t spend the money he left her? She didn’t rape anyone.
Exactly! The mean girl behind the keyboard is soooo 2009 and died with Elle Woods. If you wouldn’t dare approach and say the comments to a person’s face then don’t say it at all.
Vanessa Bryant casually wearing a million or more in jewelry!😍
She grew up really poor, and was used to nothing
OR!!!! SHE JUST HAS MORE MONEY THAN YOU CAN FATHOM
Cartier bracelets to me are like martinis. One is good! Two is OK, three starts getting into some dangerous territory. If I see more than three, I deem them fake at that point or that the owner is more about quantity and not quality. That doesn’t interest me.
I would love the rainbow one it’s beautiful!
I am so glad they brought this back! The colors are absolutely stunning in person and it’s such a unique twist on the classic Love bracelet.
Insipidity
I have the WG Rainbow purchased in 2019 for me by my husband. It is his favorite. It looks nice solo, or with my RG Clash, two totally different looks but kinda cool together.
Why is it more expensive than the diamond pave?
They are so dated and overrated, and the market is completely over saturated. I’ll never understand why people don’t buy unique jewelry that fits their personality and lifestyle. I’ll never forget my mom’s reaction when my dad bought her one. She said it looked like something a construction worker would design. And yes I know what the designers story is.
the maximumlist style is insane.. I would probably wear 3 bracelets max for my wrist..
I remember when all the tween influencers (Hayley + Kylie + Sofia) started wearing them, they all had 3+ while teenagers, it launched a massive trend