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Clash of the Bright Things

Nothing complicated for this lady please!

Sparkle? Up Yours! says jewelery...

2010 navigates away from the glittering razzle-dazzle of yesteryear - these bright young designers come magpie-proof with etymologically designed concept pieces. Expect shadow-play on your skin and a pair of home-grown green fingers...

Shadow Play

Maiko Takedo

Maiko Takedo's debut collection 'Cinematography' is a potential genesis of an accessory revolution. Hand-crafted mesh with thousands of drilled holes projects a photograph-like image onto the skin when exposed to light. “The shadow remains secret but when revealed forms the main part of the jewellery”.

Green Fingers

Hafsteinn Juliusson

The clash of jewellery and living organism is a redefinition of modern values. With real Icelandic moss sprouting from stunning silver rings, Juliusson is attempting to bring the countryside to the city folk. Your very own mini plot of land will arrive in its own greenhouse jewellery box and you’ll have to nurture it with growing jewellery water.

Living Art

Hanna Hedman

Hanna Hedmen’s “What you tell me is not always what you have experienced” collection explores borders between lie, escapism, reality and fantasy. Her series of fourteen necklaces  leads you into a suggestive world of raw detail using oxidized silver, powder coated copper and synthetic fibers; "existing in a grey area, undefined and strange.”

Masking Mind Games

Jae Wan Park

Jae Wan Park based his latest collection on the suspicion that everyone has the ability to create a semblance of reality in their inhibited brains. Playing with the idea of curious minds and the gift of sight, Park ironically obscures vision with bronze facemasks, welded together from the moulds of multiple glasses frames. Eye say, jolly good.

Metamorphosis

Baptiste Viry

A master of reinterpreting the existing, Viry likes to mix things up, combining elements from the past that would never have crossed paths in an attempt to ‘make us lose our landmarks and the way we interpret.’ Spectacle frames are linked to become chains, morphing into bracelets, belts transform into cuffs and bow ties re-emerge as clip-on necklaces.

Nose You Baby

Simona Kaunaite

Wear your senses on the flip-side with Kuanaite’s ‘The Five Senses’ collection. Her hand-moulded ceramic pieces let you sport a nose around your neck, lips on your sleeve and eyes at the back of your head. ’ Some people find them a bit ugly and scary’ she says. Well some people found Michael Jackson a bit ugly and a bit scary. Mutiny is afoot...

Words: Sarah Bonser
Photgraphy: Bigs Vatcharasith (main picture)