Roger Scemama

Roger Scemama (1898 – 1989) was a French parurier. Born in Tunis to a wealthy Florentine family, Scemama moved to Paris in 1922 where he began parure-making.^[1][2] Roger Scemama worked for the most famous French Haute Couture houses^[3] and resurrected the use of crystal in fashion in the 1950’s.^[4] Alongside the Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn, Scemama was asked to design her necklace.^[5] As a parurier,^[6][7] Roger Scemama designed jewelleries for Jacques Fath,^[8] Balmain,^[9] Schiaparelli,^[10] Lanvin,^[11][12] Givenchy,^[13] Balenciaga,^[14][15] Dior^[16][17] and Yves Saint Laurent.^[18][19][20] Some of its jewelry creations for Yves Saint Laurent can be found in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art^[21]and others at the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.^[22]

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