Love this idea from Mair Wennel. Called "Dirt Pattern Material" the beautiful, random patterns on this cotton shirt are created with everyday household substances which often mark and ruin clothing. By purposefully layering up colourful splashes of these pigments they have created the perfect camouflage for a piece of clothing that can happily incorporate many new additional marks from accidental spillages from every day life.
Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Party On
Shell shapes are amazing and varied. These beautiful calcareous sculptures are each a bespoke outfit for an individual soft bodied sea creature...
Damien Hirst, "Forms Without Life" 1991
Some new rings in methods inspired by the beautiful lumicella rock which contains prehistoric sea shells.
Joanne Stoker's shapely seashell shoe-styles appeal to me!
Keep an eye out for these new rings arriving in the SHOP!
Loved being part of the Dalston Tropics editorial for the latest Kneon Magazine! You can read the August Summer Supplement Issue here.
This piece is available to purchase from my STUDIO SHOP you can see more HERE.
Marbled Black & Pyrite Hewn Ring, have yours bespoke made with a unique mineral specimen email info@jademellor.com for detail.
Thanks to a great team for the beautiful images!
Art direction & Prop Design: Rebecca Rose Carey,
Photography: Natalia Salminen,
Stylist: Kelly Jordan,
Hair & Makeup: Eliie Blackwell
Models: Lena Marie @Profile Model Management & Illy Jay @Body London
SO overjoyed that my new Island Strata ring is featured in the December Issue of U.K Vogue! You can see it in the Wonder of Winter Christmas special, here's Kate Moss beautifully resplendent in white plumes on the December cover. Out now!
This piece is inspired by my studies into geology at Manchester Museum. I have been learning how the landscape has led to the discovery of the Earth's secrets, from finding fossils in the exposed layers of rock strata to the formation of rocks and minerals. Visualising how the landscape looked millions of years ago and how it has changed has led me to experiment with my own versions of these natural processes that build and shape the world we live in.
Available to purchase, along with other unique hand sculpted pieces directly from my studio shop HERE!
I'm really enjoying collaborating with fashion designer Charlotte Booty at the moment. Her garments push the boundaries utilising unconventional embellishments but still really wearable through their carefully considered design and construction. The opportunity of creating pieces using her beautiful crochet skills has been a joy, and combined with my studies at the moment into Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has resulted in this bag which combines her intricate textiles with sturdy leather, metal jump rings, nuts & bolts and natural stone.
I have made it big enough to accommodate my big sculpture books (regular totes are frustratingly a tad to small) and a few other essentials for a modern hunter gatherer existence. I think I may eventually make several liners in different colours so I can change it as they will show through nicely in the open weave.
Interior and fashion designer April Pride is the first to be snapped for Seattle Met's Style Tag. A lover of mixing vintage family pieces and new designers, here she is wearing a gorgeous (slightly malachite-y?) green dress and a black & gold Hewn Bangle! Purchased from Seattle based online design store Craft & Culture.
You can read about the feature here at Seattle Met online and see the jewellery here at Craft & Culture
Here's an exotic shoot featuring my Hewn Collection shot by the talented duo behind Jefforgina!
‘TWILL’s beauty aspires to cross many boundaries. The utopian goal is that of giving pleasure to areas of the reader’s brain that are stimulated by the beauty of serious original points of view in fields as diverse as politics, economy, science, literature, sex, photography and art, sometimes taking shape as fashion.
"We, at ‘Twill, have thus decided to reverse the golden rule of publishing; instead of identifying a class of potential customers on whom to foist a magazine, we have created a publication that defines ourselves."
The magazine is loosely divided into three sections: serious subjects, visual arts and our unique fotoromanzi, an extravagantly luscious literary retake on a classic genre of Italian-French kitsch.
Based in Paris, ‘Twill is published by TWS Press France. But it is misleading to place it in a specific country; ‘Twill is the result of a distributed effort coming from Italy, England, France and the Americas. A virtual editorial office, in essence, but this is what makes such new genre of magazine an interesting and daring challenge.
Craft & Culture new lookbook; "Rites of Spring" has comfy light fabrics and suggestions of colour to gently ease us into getting out in the fresh air after months of snoozing. Just what we need!
"Waking up to sunlight shining through a chink in the curtains, I'd almost forgotten what it looked like. It's going to be a good day..."
PREVIEW
Sruli Recht A/W13 Collection, CONCENTRATED presented at Paris Fashion Week including the mineral and resin jewellery collection I produced with him. Other materials include Icelandic down, Japanese denim and heavy satin, goat skin, walnut wood, cashmere rib, metal mesh, Austrian felt, Scottish waxed cotton, viscose jersey, wool and modal jersey, silk and cupro shirting, shearling, pixelated rabbit fur, and Italian wool suiting, providing a rich variety of intriguing trextures.
Here is a preview from the lookbook.
“This collection is completely burned.” - Sruli Recht, January, 2013. The collection in three words – facetted, charred, smoking.
Black Ring, Pyrite & Resin
Wood & Leather jacket, Sruli Recht & Elisa Stroyk
Black Double ring, pyrite & resin
Asymetrical Ring, Resin & Pyrite
White ring with bornite specimen
Asymmetrical white ring with bornite mineral
Double finger faceted ring with peacock ore specimen
More on the collection at Dezeen and further details at www.srulirecht.com
