A book can leave behind a very precise image, almost something worn on the body. This is where the selection begins: five great novels paired with five contemporary accessories, chosen not for simple aesthetic resemblance, but for the way they evoke a character, a symbol, an atmosphere.

Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary dreams through books. She reads them as promises of a life more intense, more elegant, more romantic. Olympia Le-Tan’s clutch, shaped like a small precious volume, becomes a direct reference to the world of Madame Bovary: an accessory to carry by hand like a beautiful illusion.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen’s elegance has no need for excess. Clio Peppiatt’s embroidered gloves recall the sober, composed neoclassical refinement that runs through Pride and Prejudice: delicate, feminine, controlled.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Roxanne Assoulin’s fish-shaped earrings refer to the little gold fishes made by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Reimagined as bijoux, they retain something magical, like a detail that has arrived directly from Macondo.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

In Oscar Wilde’s novel, beauty is seduction, mask, social control. Gucci’s silk foulard speaks to this idea of elegance as an instrument of fascination. It does not simply dress: it constructs a character.

The Name of the Rose

In Umberto Eco’s novel, the rose is symbol, trace, memory. Magda Butrym’s sandals, with their floral appliqué, turn that reference into a sensual and contemporary image. An accessory that recalls the celebrated Latin closing line — Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus — and translates it into the language of fashion: what remains, in the end, is the name.