Edita Reads | Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornaments Gianfranco Ferrè
Flicking through the pages of Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornaments Gianfranco Ferrè felt like looking into a mirror. Here I see Ferrè without a certain consistency. Yes, the architect of fashion did not focus on one look when it came to his bejewelled creations. Finally, someone with a similar lack of consistency as me in […]
Edita reads | The Art of Bedouin Jewellery By Heather Colyer Ross
This book is an amazing profile of Saudi Arabia and the jewellery pieces specific to each region of the Kingdom. What I personally enjoyed looking at was the map of how semi-precious and precious stones, glasswork and design influences have travelled to the gardens of Allah from all over the world. From medieval times, […]
Edita reads | Piaget
When I was a teen, I remember hating watches. I thought they were just plain ugly pieces that one was supposed to wear when he was older. I now know why I felt this way – I had no good examples to look at. Piaget was not a word in my vocabulary. Thank goodness for […]
Edita reports | Meeting Diane Von Furstenberg
“I’ve never known what I wanted to do but I’ve always known the kind of woman I wanted to be.” Diane von Furstenberg Success is when a complicated surname rolls off the tongue around the world without any problems. That is how I define success. And success is how you define DvF. Diane is a […]
Edita reports | Alexa Chung’s It Paperback Launch
“Do not leave until they kick you out. The later it gets, the better it gets.” Alexa Chung – It*To know a person doesn’t actually mean to know trivial or biographical facts about them, it is to observe how they make you feel when they enter the room. That’s what I have been keen to […]