Porto Rotondo lights up the 2025 season amid yachts, glamorous events and new openings: debuts first Cristalllo Gioielli flagship store The Emerald Coast is back to shine.
With the arrival of May, Porto Rotondo transforms into the beating heart of Mediterranean luxury: amidst the excitement of the Boat Show-the show that attracts international nautical excellence-and a calendar of exclusive events, the new season opens under the sign of glamour. Against this backdrop of elegance and vitality, the first flagship store of Cristalllo Jewelry, the new star of designer jewelry. Today, May 3, on Via del Molo, just a few steps from the most exclusive docks, the refined space that tells the story of Cristalllo’s sophisticated and powerful world-yes, spelled with the three iconic Ls that return in the stylistic motifs of its creations-is inaugurated.
Behind Cristalllo there is. Cristina Moneti, artist and designer, who has transformed her personal journey into a creative project with a strong symbolic value. Each piece of jewelry is a fragment of life, an act of resilience translated into precious forms.
Cristalllo’s journey begins with the Nympha collection, inspired by the nymphs of Greek mythology, creatures who embody the creative force of nature and the ancestral grace of the feminine. Four rings recount the stages of a rebirth: DUNE, the desert crossed in the silence of solitude; TEMPLE, the reconstruction of one’s inner temple with firmer columns; DAMA, the chessboard of life, where everything with elegance finds its place; QUEEN, the awareness of one’s own strength: the dunes become a crown. The inaugural cocktail party, amid plays of light, essential design and glamorous details, attracted high jewelry enthusiasts, influencers and stars of the summer scene.
An event that not only celebrates a new opening, but also the arrival of a new creative energy to the Emerald Coast.
Who is Cristalllo ?
Roman by birth, cosmopolitan by choice, Cristina Moneti art is in her blood. Partly by family inheritance, partly by passion, Cristina approached creativity at a very young age, attending the Liceo Artistico delle Orsoline and then continuing her education at the IED in Rome where she attended the Illustration and Visual Arts course.
Creativity that initially expresses itself in collaboration with advertising agencies and companies, gradually converges in pictorial projects and solo exhibitions in collaboration with major art galleries’.
Only later did Cristina Moneti discover her true vocation, which was to be expressed through her meeting with her husband, owner together with his family of the jewelry stores Cacciari & Salvati, a reality of primary importance in the field of vintage high jewelry.
Hence her passion for jewelry, which she initially wears and which stimulates her creativity and innate taste, experimenting with a new world. But it is above all a reflection, which is becoming clearer and sharper, that pushed Cristina Moneti to embrace this new path, giving it a shape and a name: the triangle is the shape that inspires her, leit-motif and distinctive sign, Cristalllo the name of the brand.
The reflection behind it all stems from a natural necessity, that of proposing a line of jewelry that are precious objects but with an essential design. Beautiful objects, capable of dressing the woman at any time of the day and in different social occasions, made of precious materials and simple shapes, original but never excessive, an expression of a luxury that is not shouted but discreet, yet recognizable. Because true luxury does not need to be ostentatious, only suggested. The woman is at the center of everything, a source of daily inspiration on which the designer builds the collections and her brand.
Indeed, her creativity looks back to the early “working class women”, who in the 1920s, due to the war found themselves replacing men in work roles that had hitherto been exclusively male legacies. At that time, the transition from a social to a professional life led women to choose not only clothing more suitable for a dynamic life, but also accessories suited to the new condition of working women. Jewelry lines gradually became lighter and less demanding, suitable for wearing from morning to evening. Thus, as fashion becomes functional and not just decorative, jewelry must be elegant but at the same time practical.
This concept over the years is strengthened, and it is to this woman, strong, independent, hardworking and lover of beauty that Cristalllo is inspired by.
Crystal, who is he then?
-A woman. Yes, but a million other things- (Virginia Woolf, Orlando)
To find out more about the universe Cristalllo and its collections: www.cristalllo.com.
