TREND-WATCH
Molinera Jewelery
a contemporary sterling silver
range first launched in September
2016 in the USA by the award-
winning lifestyle and serving
ware brand Nambe, founded in
Nambe, New Mexico in 1951.
Nambe’s
celebrated
design
heritage is continued in the soft
fluid shapes of the 925 silver
and rhodium-plated jewellery.
(www.nambeinternational.com)
Sophie Lis says her aim is “to
design meaningful top quality
jewellery
people
can
wear
everyday that becomes part of
them.” Having worked for over
10 years in fashion PR, marketing
and events, with a special focus
on launching embryo companies,
but spotting a gap in the market
for a luxury jewellery brand at
affordable prices Sophie has just
launched her own demi-fine brand,
with three collections, Fallen Star,
Fallen Moon and Lightning Bolt,
all 22ct gold vermeil with white
diamonds. These are “forever
pieces to treasure for a lifetime”,
already beloved of style queens
such as Poppy and Cara Delevigne
and Sienna Miller.
(www.sophielis.com)
JeDeCo, launched in 2009, is
a jewellery design group of 11
full members and 12 associates,
supporting each other in business
development, entrepreneurialism,
shared events and marketing
projects. With a showroom in
the OXO Tower on London’s
Southbank, their aim is build a
destination gallery, synonymous
with innovative design.
Two new members have just
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Sophie Liss
joined: Niza Huang, Taiwan-born
but London-based started her own
label in 2013 and makes “raw-
sophisticated jewellery that bridges
the gap between fashion and craft”,
with an expert use of texture and
organic forms, featuring natural
and uncut crystals with precious
metals. The organic theme runs
through most of the new collections
I have mentioned, and is a strong
trend this year.
Molinera Jewellery is designed
and handmade in London by Jen
Molinera. The vibrantly coloured
and tactile jewellery is made with
fine and sterling silvers, gold foils
and vitreous enamels. There are
two collections of pendants – Self-
Contained, one of a kind containers
with a removable stopper, or
Postcards from the Edge, that
elevate the dog tag to something far
more precious. Rings are pointed
and dagger-like but colourful and
the cufflinks are distinctive for the
bright colours, geometric patterns
and architectural details.
(www.jedeco.co.uk)
It’s the season for hats, and The
Season Hats creations are irresistible
to jewellery lovers,
lavishly embellished
as they are with
Swarovski crystals
and
pearls.
The brand was
established in 2014
by
husband-and-
wife team Paul
Stafford and Selina
Horshi.
Paul,
with a Cambridge
degree in Natural
Plum Sykes
Sciences, trained with Rachel
Trevor- Morgan, milliner to
the Queen, then acquired
an MA in Womenswear
(Millinery) at the Royal
College of Art. Selina is in
charge of sales and marketing.
Appealing to the modern woman’s
approach to hat-wearing occasions
and “fulfilling the headwear needs
of the international wardrobe”,
there are beautiful gold leather
diadems, hairbands, tiaras and
chokers inset or edged with
Swarovski pearls and crystals.
(www.theseasonhats.com)
Christie’s New York is selling
The Rockefeller Emerald, a
stunning emerald and diamond
ring by Raymond Yard, in the
heart of the Rockefeller Centre
on 20 June. Set with an octagonal
step-cut emerald of approximately
18.04 carats, it is one of the best
gemstones ever to be offered at
auction. (www.christies.com)
Plum Sykes, born in London,
now a contributing editor at
American Vogue, is also a talented
novelist. Her latest novel has just
launched in the USA to great
acclaim – Party Girls Die
in Pearls, a murder
mystery described as a
‘diabolically amusing
concoction’ by the
New York Times.
Published in the UK
by Bloomsbury – with
Plum’s expertise in
fashion, celebrity and
society, and her love of
jewellery, it’s top of my
holiday reading list.
‘‘
Christie’s
New York is
selling The
Rockefeller
Emerald, a
stunning
emerald and
diamond ring
by Raymond
Yard, in the
heart of the
Rockefeller
Centre on
20 June
‘‘
JANET FITCH
June 2017 | jewelleryfocus.co.uk