Her Humble Workshop

Kudos to that little sneaky friend of mine Angela, who after joining me for a visit at last December's The Meet Market, returned the very next day to buy this for me and surprise me for Christmas.

The girl who created this necklace is Naya Ferentinou...

...and mhw stands for my humble workshop. No need to be so humble Naya, your work is amazing!

She does have an etsy shop, but it seems to be kinda inactive, so I'd suggest you hop downtown next time there's a handmade jewellery bazaar and see for yourselves.

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ADVENT DAY 23: THE BLACK SWAN COMETH

Posted by Melanie Rickey, Fashion Editor at Large

The Black Swan ring created by Boucheron

We are reaching the end of our Advent journey. Work at FEAL towers came to a halt at midday today, until 2012. I'm now at home in front of the fire wrapping presents, playing cheesy Christmas songs and putting away home made mince pies. My guess is you are or soon will be doing much the same. I love that Christmas seems to be the only time of the year when we all stop and take time to reflect on the year behind us, and the one ahead. The penultimate advent post celebrates the incredible beauty of Parisian fine jewellery. I'll leave the description to Boucheron...

Not surprisingly, the price is given on request. 

"In nature we never repeat the same motion. In captivity (office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive stress injury. No randomness." 

Nassim N. Taleb, author of Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable

For today, I'll leave you with an astounding scene from Black Swan in which Natalie Portman demonstrates her awesome power as an actor.  Give that girl an Oscar!

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Turquoise on magenta

Both pairs of clip earrings and bead necklace, vintage. Silver chain necklace with interlocking turquoise rope and bead bracelet, Accessorize.



These is just a selection of the turquoise jewellery I packed for my vacation. The thing with turquoise is that you can really wear it with just about anything in summer - maybe except other shades of blue.

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Accessorize for summer

Last year's. One of my now traditional lets-pop-into-the-airport-Accessorize-shop-and-try-not-to-miss-our-flight buys.



Let the holidays begin.

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Kenneth Jay Lane

Drop earrings in multicolour, $36 down from $90





Bamboo-shaped bangles, $20 down from $50 each





Drop earrings in black, $26 down from $65



Well, that's my summer jewellery sorted then!



All from REVERSE, the outlet of Revolve Clothing.



I'm afraid you must have an account to browse the site, but don't fret! Click on this invitation link to register yourselves so you may proceed to drool over the whole Kenneth Jay Lane sale over there!

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Yellow gold

I believe most of us despised yellow gold when we were growing up. We thought of it as tacky and kitsch and probably something that only our moms and aunts would wear.



Well, in this past few years I slowly started to grow fonder of gold jewelery, to the point where they are now the majority of my collection.



Here are a few of the pieces that I've been wearing non-stop these past few months:

Gorjana Bail Ring from Reverse.



Gorjana Tinsley Charm Bracelet from Reverse.



Chain link necklace, vintage from my grandma's collection.



Gold-plated bracelet, a gift bought from Samos.



Snake-effect long necklace from Accessorize.



If you liked those two Gorjana pieces on top, you should definitely take a look at Revolve Clothing's selection, with several pieces currently on sale. My favourite is this little charm bracelet that's already on my wish list.

Quite similar to the one I already have, but I wouldn't mind piling them both up on my left wrist.

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ASOS shipped free

My latest parcel - shipped for free from ASOS - contained (clockwise from left) toy soldier pendant, gold angel wing ring, triple drop earrings, engraved clamp bangle, kissing birds and heart necklace plus some holiday gifts that won't be posted here. Gifts are supposed to be surprises, remember?



The free worldwide shipping offer ends this Sunday at midnight, so if you don't wanna pull a Cinderella, you'd better hurry up!

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Necklace out of no where

Isn't it amazing when someone has stuff they don't use and they just give it away to you? This was gifted to me last week by one of the movie directors at work (I know I may have failed to mention it earlier, but I now work for a movie production company) and I 'm already planning outfits in my head. Like I needed more reasons to love my job...

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DOMINIC JONES SCARES ME IN A GOOD WAY FOR LFW

Posted by Fashion Editor at Large

Alice Dellal and Dominic Jones

A year and a half ago up-and-coming British jeweller Dominic Jones was living in the notorious London squat known as "Squallyoaks" because he said "there was more drama there in one week than the omnibus of Hollyoaks". Then he came up with a jewellery range of high-end looking fierce pieces made using gold plate ten times thicker than the usual, but with an affordable heart. His idea was to create jewellery that his generation could afford and not just love from afar. I remember meeting him at a Dover Street Market party to launch Stephen Jones perfume, and being impressed by both his grey/blue hair (he is definitively ahead of the fashion curve), his endearing manner and his clear talent; he was wearing his own instantly covetable fang jewellery. He set up his business with funding from the punky model Alice Dellal, one of his best friends, and his first season saw his jewellery go global. Then Anna Wintour came knocking; then he got NewGen sponsorship.

Could he sustain the hype for his second collection? This is the all important question with any young designer, and having seen his new collection go from an idea he told me about over coffee in my Paris hotel last season, "I'm thinking about skulls," I can say he is moving steadily in the right direction! Here is an exclusive preview of his Autumn/Winter collection.

The "Vampire Bat Skull Heart Pendant" by Dominic Jones for AW10

The new collection is both beautiful and challenging inspired as it is by skulls, scorpions and beetles. "You would run a mile from these things in real life, they are pretty intimidating, but I hope I have made them desirable," says Dom. The model shown is 15 year old Daphne, who is represented by Union. The Dutch girl is already a hot property and has been modelling for just one month. She won't be allowed to walk for a catwalk show until she is 16.  The "Vampire Bat Skull Heart Pendant," was initially created by fusing two anatomically correct and to scale Vampire Bat skulls. We will bring the rest of the collection to you on Saturday.  Thanks for the preview Dom! Good luck (you won't need it). FEAL xxx

Image: by Aitken Jolly
Styling: Francesca Burns
Photo of Dominic and Alice from http://weblog.brownsfashion.com/

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