The nice thing about starting following a brand from the very beginning is that you get to appreciate its evolution as it has been my case with Scandinavian jewelry brand Bjørg. Since the very first moment I discovered their pieces, always wrapped in a dark an esoteric aura, by the year 2009 I became...
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The accessories collections that illustrator Gonzalo Cutrina creates together with accessories designer Aurora Vilaboa are always colorful, bold and eye-catching. I discovered them three years ago when I interviewed them for Dazed Digital but it wasn’t till last year that I could -at last- meet them in person. And it is exactly there, at...
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Kora is a jewelry label I first discovered at COUER Tradeshow in L.A. some months ago. All their pieces are created in Africa together with local artisans, reusing local and sustainable materials. One of...
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I found the perfect necklace for this summer at Zara. Short but bold, with bright yellow neon stones: one of those pieces that, once you are wearing it, there’s little less you may need. It looked so fresh, summery and perfect to me that without even thinking much about it I grabbed it, took...
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Since I discovered the new collection created for this summer by Lucía Vergara, designer of the brand Après Ski, I knew I had to get one of her amazing pieces soon. The problem is, as the perfect Gemini that I am, I am still trying to decide between Albion and Cocoa designs.
Now, she has also...
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In a faster-than-light visit to the space of young talents in the latest edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, during last January, I had the chance of meeting Lucía Vergara in person, the designer of Barcelona-based jewelry label Après Ski, confirming she herself is as adorable as the pieces she designs.
Her new collection, named...
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Designer Ana Locking explores in Under Beauty -her collection for this Spring/Summer 12 season- the darkness that lies underneath beauty; the imperfect, the grotesque that appears just on the edge of the abyss of the sublime.
Her interpretation of the dark side of perfection results -in the jewelry scene- in statement thorn necklaces in...
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Last week it took place in the Cooper Design Space building, in downtown Los Angeles, the second edition of COEUR, an accessories tradeshow created by Henri Myers last October.
The amazing selection reaches the perfect balance gathering together already stablished brands with new talents in the accessories field, and combining shoes, bags and jewelry in...
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After graduating in the Superior School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Lucie Saint-Leu decided to settled down in Hyères to create her own jewelry label four years ago. Her pendants and earrings, which normally take shape through little motifs that vary according to the mood of the collection -in the latest one it’s all...
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I have always liked the pieces by The Vamoose, one of the projects by Kathryn Blackmore, a fashion designer from Leeds with a great sensibility for details. I love to get lost in her nice blog and find out how she patiently grinds out her inspirations and searches, I love to surf from one...
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With the journey to Barcelona, the move to Munich and the desperate search of a new apartment (solved!) everything has been kind of messy in here lately, so now that everything seems to start falling into place again I would like to show you a little preview of some Spring pictures we took in...
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