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Recently I find myself growing out of anything high street, and that includes jewellery. I guess I’m just tired of wearing rings and necklaces that leave that inevitable sickly greenish mark on your skin once the gold or silver cover starts to wear off. You all know what I’m talking about.
Pricewise, however, it seems it’s usually a big step up from your £6.99 at Topshop to a £1.500 Tom Binns piece… That’s why I’ve been looking into young designers who bring the goods yet are still affordable. As I mentioned before, Kabiri.co.uk is a great place to find them.
Dominic Jones is one of those young jewellery designers really breaking through right now. His pieces are solid chunky gold and silver, with a real punk twist. (His good friend and punk-goddess Alice Dellal is a backer behind the brand). This season’s collection is vampire inspired, with the Tooth and Claw rings, and the Fang necklace. At £225 they’re perhaps not that cheap, but some things are worth the investment. And sometimes it’s nice not to have to scrub the cheap jewellery off your fingers everytime you’ve worn them.
On sale at Matches.com
I was writing a little post on my other project – His or Hers – on the amazing buckle sandals from Surface to Air, when I realised this collective deserved a shoutout all on their own.
Surface to Air was founded in 2000 in Paris, by a group of creatives who have left a serious mark in the fashion, music and art worlds over the past decade.
First and foremost there’s S2A’s fashion line for both men and women, which consists of contemporary, clean-cut and high quality items. The understated simplicity of the collection has an almost Scandinavian feel to it, which I’m a real sucker for these days. Less is more, and all that. They sell in their own stores in Paris and Sao Paolo, online and in top retailers such as Barneys and Le Bon Marché.
The collective has grown over the years to include a Film department, directing commercials and music videos – many of which you’ll have seen: Justice’s We Are Your Friends, anyone? – and an agency department responsible for the Art Direction of several high profile clients…
Anyway, before this turns into even more of an ode to S2A, I’ll shut myself up and let some images of the current collection do the talking.
I’ve finally made a new home for the now defunct Team Junk, my trusty old blog for many years. I shamelessly took all my old content with me though, apologies for the outdated and sometimes irrelevant posts!
I’ve been working long and hard to get Alex Loves up and running, have had a crash course in HTML and CSS in the past week and I’m definitely not there yet. There will be a lot more changes in the coming weeks, both visually and content-wise, but I hope you enjoy either way.
Love, Alex
xxx
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