When you happen to read about stories like the one of the 29 year old jewelry designer Heaven Tanudiredja, you start believing to fairy tales. His fashion life started when he was 15 years old, working as an assistant designer in Indonesia. He then studied and graduated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp in Belgium and soon had some working experiences at Galliano, first, and Dries Van Noten later. But the fact is he never intended to become a jewelry designer: he just made a first jewel for a teacher of his at school, she liked it, everybody noticed it and people started placing orders.
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Jewelry designer Bjørg Nordli-Mathisenstated stated: “For me jewelry is a very intimate thing which reflects our passions and emotions. I believe we all need joy and some glitz in our lives, and l feel very privileged to have the opportunity to make a difference to other people by adding some sparkle to special occasions as well as those random days in between.”
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Langoliers is a brand hiding two creative minds, Pamela Liou and Zon Chu, which I happened to know about while randomly looking for knitted pieces. The fact is that, yes, we are talking about knits, but actually knitted jewelry, which is actually a pretty cool concept if you think that metal chain doesn’t have the same elasticity of yarn of course, so each piece is handworked in an extremely accurate and delicate way, ending in an unexplicably beautiful complicated net that adapts perfectly on the shapes of the wearer.
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Innovation is increasingly rare to find in the myriad of products we stumble upon every day. Sometimes it is almost depressing, wandering through events not to see anything new. Thankfully there are exceptions made up of people who can see beyond the barriers of aesthetic cliches. Chiara Scarpitti is one of these exceptions, her jewels are very special, they are created by a mixture of different materials which define a strong style.
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Walking through Paris in the famous Marais district, a place full of fashionable shops and charming boutiques, I came across Les Cakes de Bertrand’s store. At first I found the name quite bizarre, if you consider a fashion brand famous throughout the world for its romantic prints, but once I read the brand’s story, I got the whole picture. The brand was originally a bakery during the late 90’s, but with time the amazing prints that adorned their sweets’ packaging, became very popular accessories which recalled a kind of vintage style.
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Della serie non scartiamo proprio nulla, ecco un bracciale veramente particolare, da oggi in poi sapete cosa riciclare dei vostri pantaloni ormai da buttare.
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The zipper at your wrist
This is a very special bracelet, from today onwards you know what to recycle of your old pants.
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via Notcouture
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