It is most certainly a rather challenging and exciting task to come up with innovative jewellery design in a city with such a powerful and unmistakable heritage in goldsmithing as Cairo. In fact, what we have until now mostly observed in the majority of brands based there, is that in terms of new design approaches, often …
Mawi started its successful path 12 years ago as the result of a creative collaboration in business and in life between Mawi Keivon, sole responsible for the design direction, and Tim Awan, heading the management side of the brand. We had last week the exciting opportunity to meet them both at their studio in London Dalston …
The concept behind Ek Thongprasert’s jewellery work is very clear: to transfer traditional and classical jewellery silhouettes into silicone, a material of choice since the beginning of his collaboration with jewellery designer Noon Passama, also co-founder of the brand. This substitution of qualities, though fairly simple to conceive, have a tremendous effect in the pieces as … Continue reading »
Kirsty Ward launched her eponymous label back in 2010 after completing the prestigious MA in Womenswear at the London Central Saint Martins. Since then both her clothing and jewellery collections have been gathering an array of positive reviews and mentions from top British fashion institutions such as Vogue and Elle UK, Selfridges and WGSN. Ward’s S/S … Continue reading »
Rarely do we come across jewellery designs so intensively striking. We found in Maria Piana’s S/S 2013 collection a very determined vision, steadily focused in the creative direction taken. These are objects that seem to be somehow gravitating the surface of the bodies they adorn. The thin sheets of plated metal from which they are … Continue reading »
We welcomed recently the opportunity for a private viewing of Fiona Paxton’s latest jewellery collection in her London press office at Sane Communications. What we much cherish in Paxton’s work is the undoubtedly strong ethnical influence that one immediately grasps from the very first moment of looking at her designs. Just the stunning hand beading craftsmanship … Continue reading »
Meaning “fang” in Georgian, the native language from sisters-in-law and founders Natia and Tamar, Eshvi is a new jewellery brand launched past March during Paris Fashion Week after a creative and business partnership with Giselle Ganne, formerly head of silver design at Stephen Webster. “The debut collection was inspired by the Art Deco Era and … Continue reading »
Delfina Delettrez previous collection was inhabited by a variety of surrealist icons such as mirrors, eyes and other juxtaposed imagery from the movement. Although this fascination could have ended up revealing not much more than a interesting-for-the-moodboard kind of inspiration, Delettrez proved in fact to be drawn into the meanings behind those symbols, following a … Continue reading »
In a 1940′s catalogue of the North-American retailer SEARS, one can read their latest jewellery items being advertised as “the prettiest newest jewellery, the kind girls love to wear”. As these were mostly made out of sterling silver, one could hardly imagine that more than half a century later, jewellery design would turn on to … Continue reading »
Due to the fact that many designers and labels not based in France choose to present their collections in Paris making for a very diverse and relatively long schedule, the jewellery proposals to be found here are always extremely heterogenous. From models in bejewelled cages to the more commercial offers, Paris doesn’t seem to let … Continue reading »
If we consider London as the innovative hub where incredible young talents keep on delivering awe inspiring creations with astonishing diversity, Milan would be the stage where some of the world’s most established fashion houses come to show recently a certain focus on craftsmanship and artistry that is becoming more and more a key positioning … Continue reading »
Acknowledging that it demands quite a considerable amount of self-awareness not to get caught in all the frenzy that takes over London during its Fashion Week and wanting to bring its jewellery proposals into focus, here are some of our highlights from the catwalk shows for A/W 13-14. L’Wren Scott surprised us with her 23k … Continue reading »
Stylish and ethnic inspired, Aurélie Bidermann’s creations bring with them always sage references to material cultures and traditions from around the world. Often presented in bold, luxurious traits, these are objects that know very well how to sparkle an immediate desire, season after season. A dreamer, a traveller and a lover as Karim Sadli romantically … Continue reading »
First shown last September as part of the Paris Fashion Week calendar, Manish Arora’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection was a stunning display of opulent jewellery design. Inspired by Indian goldsmithing traditions in bridal jewellery, Arora introduced many classical themes and compositions such as adornments for hair and hand - known as maag tikkas and haath phools - bell … Continue reading »
Born from a personal pact between Farah Malik and Dana Arbib as they themselves describe, A Peace Treaty is a New York based jewellery brand inspired by the hand-craft traditions of the Middle-East, Asia, South America and Africa. Titled Neteret meaning goddess in ancient Egyptian, the designs presented for A/W 2012 explored the traditional jewellery … Continue reading »
There is a certain kind of jewellery that doesn’t impose itself. Its enchantment lies precisely on a certain anonymity, a subtle beauty that emerges only when our eyes stay a little longer with it. These were the impressions we had during our first look at David Neale’s work, jewellery designer currently living and working in Melbourne, … Continue reading »
One could start by saying that it’s perhaps something local as with the exception of Yollhee Koo, all the designers here featured are based in London. Two of them, namely Lili Colley and Lisa Watson, recent graduates from the BA in Fashion Jewellery at the London College of Fashion. However, going a little further down … Continue reading »
Animals have been throughout the millenniums widely depicted in all arts and crafts. Fulfilling a certain need for us to explain the world we see or as a praise to their significance as the animist and shamanic traditions so well understood, the fact is that we often looked towards them in our search for beauty … Continue reading »
