Tag: jewellery
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Brisbane’s Bianca Mavrick Jewellery Crafts Costume and Statement Jewellery With Everyday Wearability
When Brisbane-based jewellery designer Bianca Mavrick was little, she loved playing dress-ups with her nonna’s ’80s costume jewellery. “She had a box of broken pieces she’d surrender to me and I would repair them or reassemble the pieces into new jewellery,” she says. Mavrick went on to study industrial design at QUT, but took night…
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Wear Your Star Sign Around Your Neck With Skin Studio’s New Double-Sided Zodiac Pendants
Written for Broadsheet Skin Studio, a jewellery label started by Melbourne-based designer Chi Mai in 2018, makes nine-karat gold-filled necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings. Gold-filled jewellery is made by bonding a thick layer of gold to a base of jeweller’s brass and sterling silver (which is different from gold plating, where metals are simply dipped…
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Released From Love Is a Sydney Jewellery Label Turning Recycled Sterling Silver and Gold Vermeil Into Classic, Everyday Pieces
Written for Broadsheet Hannah Roche and her husband LD Malone spent a year learning to craft fine jewellery at one of Australia’s oldest craft institutions, the Sturt School in New South Wales, so they could each make the other’s wedding ring. In the process, they fell in love with jewellery making, going on to launch Released From…
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Mediterranean Dreaming: A Local Linen-and-Ceramics Label Collaborates With Dinosaur Designs Co-Founder Louise Olsen
It was the rugged beauty of Puglia, Italy, that drove Sydney’s Alexandra Heard and Heleena Trahanas to found fashion-and-lifestyle label Alex and Trahanas, which specialises in breezy linen and one-of-a-kind ceramics. The friends and designers use premium garza linen from one of the oldest mills in Italy for the label’s summer dresses, and artisans in Puglia…
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Melbourne Sales Wrap: Best of the Week, October 11, 2018
Written for Broadsheet Melbourne The Beach People Online Luxe seaside label The Beach People continues to celebrate its birthday with 50 per cent off round beach towels, travel towels, leather carriers and beach cushions. Load up on beachy essentials in preparation for the warmer weather. While stocks last. Matteau Swim Online Designed between Sydney and…
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Aletheia & Phos’ new collection is inspired by Greek and Italian mythology
Written for Fashion Journal Your dose of energetic protection. Melbourne-based jewellery label Aletheia & Phos has launched the Collezione di Protezione (Protection Collection) – a symbol of the feminine, inspired by Greek and Italian mythology. The release includes necklaces, earrings and rings dotted with Australian opal, white topaz, pink sapphire and rainbow moonstone. All stones are ethically…
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Karen Walker brings back pearls with new jewellery collection
Written for Fashion Journal What happens when good girls give in to desire? That’s the question the Karen Walker aims to answer with her new Garden of Eden jewellery collection. Inspired by the forbidden fruit that tore Adam and Eve apart, the release features pearls sat in barbed carapace with spiked edges – a design…
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