The jewelry paradise of Heaven Tanudiredja

January 31, 2012 0

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.

Langoliers, knitted jewelry

Fashion village

November 5, 2011 0

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.

Fien de Graaf | The world seen through sections

Crafts or arts?

June 14, 2011 0

Fien de Graaf is without doubt a jewellery designer out of the ordinary, she sectioned the body transforming its parts into pieces to wear. “With our appearance we can give expression to who we are. Nowadays, the prevailing beauty ideal plays an important role and has a big influence on how we want to appear to the world. What do we consider as perfect beauty? Do we still have a realistic view of ourselves?” Of course it’s not easy to answer all these questions, beauty and personal knowledge are abstract concepts (…)

Bethan Laura Wood | Super Fake? We don’t think so!

Crafts or arts?

April 28, 2011 1

I met Bethan Laura Wood during the Milan furniture week, a girl who doesn’t go unnoticed for sure, she’s a multifaceted talent that’s hard to identify. As soon as you start to define her, she moves elsewhere; she created jewellery, tables, scarves and who knows what else she has in mind. Since she finished her studies, she set up her own practice WOOD London, designing and producing a range of objects with very interesting patterns realized both on beautiful garments and on furniture.

Jewelry

Crafts or arts?

February 7, 2011 0

Lilith and the loves affairs “I ‘m exploring the polarity between the femine and masculine aspect and I’ve looked for a new relation between the metal and the stone. I have discovered a new space”