Tiffany × Frankenstein — The Alchemy of Creation

The Film: A Legacy Reimagined

Tiffany × Frankenstein is where craft meets creation — a collaboration born from beauty, history, and the gothic imagination of Guillermo del Toro.

Art transcends time. It bridges past and present, creator and dreamer —
and somewhere between light and shadow, that connection endures.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein arrives like a storm long promised — a world where creation, love, and ruin are cut and set with a stonecutter’s precision.

Tiffany & Co. steps in not as ornament but as living history — two centuries of craft, archive, and alchemy made visible on screen.

Staged within Tiffany HQ, lit to glimmer like a secret — heritage reborn for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.

This moment marks the meeting of two creative worlds — Tiffany x Frankenstein, where jewelry and cinema collide. Under Guillermo del Toro’s meticulous vision, every design gleams with both artistry and storytelling.

An archival Tiffany ring, captured in luminous detail by RIOT. Though the exact name remains in Tiffany’s vaults, this piece evokes the design lineage that inspired Tiffany x Frankenstein. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

Heritage pieces glimmer, Elizabeth’s cross becomes a pulse, and the film stitches 19th-century memory to a modern, macabre romance. The reverence is palpable — more security for the Tiffany pieces than for any star on set — because here, craft is character and character is destiny.

Elizabeth’s Cross — a Tiffany creation forged for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, captured by RIOT. A symbol of devotion and design reborn under cinematic light. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

Paintings and art history whisper through the wardrobe. The Wade family necklace surfaces like a relic from another dream. It is restraint and thunder in the same breath — beauty weaponized for story. A union like Tiffany x Frankenstein reminds us that in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, every frame breathes with design as destiny.

“When you think about beauty and elegance, we said, let’s approach Tiffany.” – Guillermo del Toro

Inside the Archives: Where Creation Begins

Our staged “archives” inside Tiffany HQ — stained glass, lamps, and books glowing like memory under our light. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

Long before cameras rolled on Frankenstein, we were already inside Tiffany’s history — shoulder to shoulder with their archivists, reimagining how the past could breathe again. We knew the archives weren’t a museum; they were a pulse — a living organism waiting for light. So together, we built one. A staged Tiffany Archives inside the company’s headquarters — designed, lit, and styled so that every surface, every gemstone, every whisper of heritage would sing on screen.

These scenes became the heart of Tiffany x Frankenstein — our contribution to the visual soul of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein,
where history and imagination are crafted in equal measure.

Kate Hawley stepped into that world like an archaeologist of beauty. Around her, the pieces hummed — Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass, Meta Overbeck’s sketches, scarab necklaces glowing under our light. We gave her a world to explore, a space that looked and felt like memory itself, refracted through modern glass. Design. Film, photo, and staging fused into a single act of storytelling.

Christopher Young and Kate Hawley in the staged Tiffany Archives — a meeting of design minds surrounded by glass, history, and light. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

Tiffany has been resurrecting history with us for years. Guillermo del Toro walked into a revival already underway — and to his credit, he understood the poetry of it. This is resurrection through design: study the past, reimagine the form, bring it to life with tenderness and precision — an arm-in-arm process that mirrors the way del Toro and his team like to work.

Christopher Young presents an archival Tiffany necklace to costume designer Kate Hawley during their collaboration for Tiffany x Frankenstein — where history and design intertwine. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

We captured it all — the gleam of gold, the flicker of reflection, the way a single jewel can change the temperature of a room. The real archives may be quiet, but this cinematic echo for Tiffany x Frankenstein spoke in color and light.

The staged Tiffany archive room inside Tiffany HQ — a set built to glow with the ghosts of design. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

The Workshop: Forging Beauty from the Bones

Before the light hit glass, before the jewels met silk, there was the steady rhythm of creation. In this chapter of Tiffany x Frankenstein, the making itself became the story — a living extension of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and its devotion to detail. Tiffany’s artisans working with the precision of poets, the delicacy of surgeons.

This was where we found our lens: in the quiet heartbeat of the workshop, capturing the process of bringing new life to objects destined for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

Inside the Tiffany workshop — a magnified glimpse at the artistry behind pieces created for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Captured by RIOT. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo.

We documented the small miracles — the filing, engraving, and setting of stones that would become part of the film’s living world. Every spark, every reflection, every echo of a tool against metal spoke to a truth we’ve always chased: creation itself is the real spectacle.

These moments exist both within what we created and outside of it — fragments of process that speak louder than dialogue. They remind us that artistry doesn’t just happen; it’s forged, one gesture at a time. In both the film and behind the scenes, Tiffany x Frankenstein proves that true beauty is built, not imagined — a testament to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein as a work of design as much as cinema.

Inside Tiffany’s workshop, where chemistry meets craft — the quiet pulse of creation echoing Frankenstein’s own myth. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

A Legacy Immortalized

A Tiffany lamp glows like captured fire — every color alive with history. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

In the end, it always comes back to light. A shimmer caught on glass. The reflection of a life’s work in the edge of a gemstone. Tiffany’s story has never been about adornment — it’s about creation as an act of remembrance. To make something beautiful is to keep something alive.

Through Tiffany x Frankenstein, that act of remembrance became tangible. It’s a collaboration that helped turn Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein into a living gallery of light and legacy.

The pieces we witnessed carried that weight — fragments of time polished into eternity. Each one whispered of hands and histories that refused to fade. The archive, the artisans, the dreamers — all moving in rhythm, rewriting what legacy means in a modern world.

Frankenstein isn’t a monster story; it’s a maker’s story. A reminder that every act of creation carries both danger and devotion. That to bring something to life is to play with immortality. And somewhere between the flicker of a candle and the hum of a camera, that truth found its light again.

This is where the circle closes. The past reawakened. The future handcrafted. The legend of Tiffany, renewed once more — in silver, in gold, in story.

Christopher Young and Kate Hawley share a moment of laughter inside the staged Tiffany Archives — a reminder that even in the dark beauty of Frankenstein, joy is part of creation. Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc.

Credits

The clapperboard for Tiffany x Frankenstein — RIOT’s BTS from our Tiffany & Co. collaboration with Netflix. Directed by Chris Maguire, cinematography by Mark Sherman.

Created in collaboration with Tiffany & Co. and Netflix for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

RIOT directed and produced the Kate Hawley and Tiffany Archives sequences captured within Tiffany. Post-production was completed by Netflix & Tiffany.

Photography by Jonathan Hokklo for RIOT.nyc
© Tiffany & Co. / Netflix / RIOT.nyc

Our contribution to Tiffany x Frankenstein brought Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein into Tiffany’s world of heritage and craft, uniting cinema and design under one gleaming vision.

For us at RIOT, Tiffany x Frankenstein was more than just a production — it was participation in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein mythos. To see Tiffany’s artistry shine within that universe reminded us that creation is timeless, and when design meets story, both are reborn.

This is why we create — to chase the light that flickers between imagination and immortality.