My Christmas.

Happy Christmas to all of you! My house and my presents, and it was perfect!

The Result.

So following on from the post I wrote about my first source of inspiration for the first necklace I made after deciding to start my stall again, here is my interpretation of it all. Yes its big (well massive?) and yes you have to have a certain degree of confidence to wear this (if you liked it) and yes I don't think you could possibly fit one more thing on it (as my boyfriend confirmed.) To many people this just sounds unappealing, but when I'm making something I'm doing it purely from personal taste and with the vision of 'imagine it with a white shirt and old jeans' in my head. I appreciate, like with all things in fashion, it will not suit everyone's taste but at the same time that is what I like about each necklace/bracelet, the fact that you either love it or hate it and there's no way it could sit in a maybe box.

Caroline de Maigret.

I spotted Caroline de Maigret in amongst a tumblr page, not knowing who or what she was known for I had to do just a quick google search to find out what came up about this lady with the typical stand out understated french style. So Caroline began her modelling career in 1994 working with the likes of Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh and Terry Richardson and considered a Chanel muse. From the fashion world to the music industry she launched a rock label called Bonus Tracks Records with her partner Yarol Poupaud and set up a publishing company called Yarock Editions where they produce soundtracks and music. And then I came across this interview with her, so if you wanted to know how she looks so effortlessly beautiful, here you go.

First Inspiration.

As I have decided to start creating my jewellery again I have decided that this time I will be adapting a more constructed strategy in terms of the design process, my first attempt consisted of simply breaking up all the jewellery I had and putting it back together into pieces that were completely derived from my imagination with no plan or inspiration or more honestly no order what so ever. This time I am starting from scratch and following the type of processes that I read about, gathering inspiration then using that and producing a piece that represents my adaptation of all the inspirational sources I have collected. Now this isn't a collection I'm producing its just simply having a sort of story behind each piece what has inspired each necklace or bracelet as opposed to me just going along and putting it together with no plan. So, for my first project I had a distinctive picture in my head and that was the girls on the Givenchy ready-to-wear 2008 catwalk and here was his inspiration behind this, the extensive collection of chains and crosses hanging against simple black. Now I would never want to do a copy cat impersonation instead it made me think more generally about religious inspiration in fashion, this lead me to this article,I dont really consider this to be a discreet inspiration when you think about it religious influences can be seen in many collections but as with any major sources of inspiration the interesting aspect is how each individual adapts this and how this appears in creations significantly enough that it makes it easy to identify where these ideas have been initiated. Photo inspiration... I will post an image of the final once completed.