A girl’s best friend

“Ice and Snow, Netherland dwarf and lionhead rabbits respectively, both 1 year old, stand guard over brass and faux-pearl ring, £7, Freedom at Topshop (01277 844476); silver, onyx and crystal ring, £1,174, Atelier Swarovski (020-7255 8445); grey pearl and crystal ring, £80.20, Philippe Ferrandis for Swarovski Crystallized, as before”

View the complete photoshoot at TimesOnline

Findings

Great piece for showing jewelry. Vintage black glove mold. H:12″ x W:5″, Etsy

Spotlight: Maria Francesca Pepe

Maria Francesca is a young London based Italian designer. Her first collection Spring/Summer 2008 was presented in Paris at Rendez-Vous Femme selling to Rei Kawakubo’s Dover Street Market (London) among other selected high-end boutiques. Following Collections introduce MariaFrancescaPepe Bags and a full range of Womenswear pieces all concieved around the Jewellery-Wear Concept. Featured in a photoshoots on the latest issues of, among the others, Plastique with her tubular extra-large necklaces part of her 2008 Paradoxa collection, D la Repubblica delle Donne, i-D, Elle Uk and Self Service, Maria Francesca’s creations merge the link between ornament and wearability. The Italian handcraft tradition is fused to a contemporary and avant-garde sense of Fashion.

Art-Brut is her latest collection and her first attempt of merging experimental jewellery into clothing, bags, accessories. The jewellery pieces are turned into buttons, handles, collars. The materials? Varnished brass, black hard plexiglass, sterling silver, stones such as black hematite and ruby zircon, smooth leather, cotton, silk, viscose, jersey.

Images: MariaFrancescaPepe

Private treasures

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Grow Grow Grow

Natalya Pinchuk explores the “scary” side of jewellery with a serie of oversized and organic looking necklaces and brooches made of felt and crawling pieces of plastic that take inspiration from the world of botanics and under the sea flora and fauna. View the complete collection

Collaboration: Ana Hagopian+Fabriano

Argentinian born designer Ana Hagopian arrived in Spain in 1982 after long travels around the world that inspired her in her own design experiments and explorations. She is now one of the masters of world paper fashion and jewellery creating detailed and elegantly crafted design pieces and a universe of colorful (recycled) objects that find their strenght in the juxtaposition of the perishable nature of the material and the endless possibility of its usage.

Fabriano Boutique is the hotbed – laboratory of the famous paper-maker Cartiere Miliani Fabriano, founded in 1264 – for the design and manufacture of the best products in stationery and technical paper design in Europe today. Created in 2000 as an experiment in image-making when CMP was state property, today Fabriano Boutique is an independent firm that allies research and design.

Milano – Via Ponte Vetero, 17, 22 April 2009: Ana is today a guest of Fabriano Boutique at the forty-eighth Salone del Mobile ( Furniture Exhibition of Milan), presenting her new collection of paper jewellery.

Metal Alice

Alice Dellal photographed by Quentin de Briey on the cover of April/May issue of spanish magazine Metal. Styling by Ana Murillas. Spreads via Refinery29 / RevistaMetal

Spotlight: Stephanie Simek

Single Eyelash Necklace
Sweet little sleeping eye… A necklace that softly floats around your neck and does your dreaming for you. Sterling Silver necklace is approximately 20 inches including clasp. Eyelashes are made of 100% human hair.

Milk & Honey Necklace
Milk and honey, an indubitable pair. A golden honeycomb beeswax pendant encased in plastic hangs from an oxidized sterling silver chain. The links are interwoven with a milk protein-based fiber. Pendant measures 3.75 by 1.4 inches. This necklace is approximately 18 inches long.

Gold-lined Quail Egg Necklace
Lined with 23k Gold Leaf, this speckled quail egg necklace casts a warm glow from within. Pendant hangs from 18 inch 14 karat gold chain. Made from actual Japanese Quail eggs, they vary slightly in color and size – approximately 1 inch. The entire shell has been coated in plastic for strength.

For more projects and to purchase: Stephaniesimek.com / As seen at Reading Frenzy, Portland Oregon

Punk pearls

Forget your mama’s pearls. The ss 2009 Fenton jewelery collection is overloaded and tribal, organic punk, a celebration of mix and matching of materials, textures and colors with a taste of object trouvé put into art. Images: Fenton

Sugar and spice and everything nice

From haute couture to the streetwear and the crafty jewellery sold on Etsy, everyone loves sweets and desserts. So fashion finds endless inspiration from this playful, colorful and delicious world for bright juicy color palettes, rounded shapes and more literal languages for a sugary (calory free) daily feast.

Images: 1.Emma Watson in a Christian Lacroix haute couture dress for a Vogue Italia photoshoot / 2&3.Chloe s/s 2009 collection looks/ 4.Prom inspired Dresses by Betsey Johnson at Asos/ 5.Pink peep toe pumps by Salvador Sapena at Asos / 6.Sundae hoodie by KidRobot / 7&8. Miniature food biscuit brooch and Oreo cookies earrings at Meow Box/ 9&10. Scrummy banana swirl ring and chocolate banana sundae necklace at Chicki