About Jennifer Fisher

The editors at Glamour give us an exclusive peek inside the offices of jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher. She shares her design aesthetic along with tips on stacking, cleaning, and more.

Glamour: How did you get your start in jewelry design?

Jennifer Fisher: "It was by complete accident and happened because of the birth of my son, Shane. I wanted something to represent him, and everything out there was 'mom' jewelry—it was not for me. So I went out and made a custom dog tag with his full name on it and hung it from a long gold-link chain. After that, I started getting stopped on the street by people wanting my necklace, and it snowballed from there."

Glamour: You're known for stacking your jewelry. What do you love about this type of styling?

JF: "I love that it's really organic. Everyone stacks and layers in their personal way; mine is heavy. If you're new to stacking jewelry I suggest starting with three pieces, including one large piece to ground your stack. Choose some that are open to the top, some closed, and play with different textures and colors of gold. Rose and yellow are my personal favorites."

Glamour: Share some tips for packing your jewelry. How should one travel with it?

JF: "Always separate and protect your jewelry. I hand-carry everything in special envelopes or bags. It's also nice to pack a small polishing cloth if you don't have access to jewelry cleaner."

An assortment of Jennifer Fisher jewelry

Glamour: How do you transition your jewelry from day to night?

JF: "My work look tends to be a little more aggressive, so it's always fun. For nighttime, I'll take off some of my smaller pieces and add in some heavier items and some colorful pieces. I am also a fan of stacking large-scale rings. When it comes to earrings, I'll replace my daytime studs with a singular long chain earring to create more of an evening look." 

Glamour: Tell us about the day you found out you were accepted into the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund.

JF: "When I got the call from Steven Kolb, CEO of the CFDA, I cried. I'm such a sap! It was an overwhelming feeling of elation, accomplishment, and complete fear all at the same time."

Inside Jennifer's office

Glamour: Jordanna, describe your role at Jennifer Fisher.

Jordanna Oslac, PR manager: "I am the in-house PR and sample manager. On a daily basis, I work directly with magazine editors, celebrities, and stylists to pull items they need for photo shoots or red carpet appearances. I also work on social media for Jennifer Fisher, including Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest."

Jordanna Oslac, Jennifer Fisher, Alex Tirsch

Glamour: For a girl just starting out stacking, what would you suggest she buy?

JO: "I love the Stud cuff and VIP cuff. It all depends on your personal style, but for a girl just starting out stacking, the Stud cuff is really versatile and can be worn alone or with other jewelry. The VIP cuff is undeniably cool. I was dying for it even before I started working at JF."

Glamour: What's one way you transition your jewelry from day to night?

JO: "For night I like to wear a stack of bracelets on one wrist and a statement piece on the other. I'm obsessed with the Grate cuff, which can easily dress up an outfit because of its size."

Jordanna's saucy sneakers

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• Glamour: Alex, describe your role at Jennifer Fisher.

  Alex Tirsch, VP of operations and production: "I'm Jennifer's right hand. Sometimes left too! When people ask me how I got this job, they either laugh or don't believe my answer, but I found it through a Craigslist posting. After I graduated from school, I was applying for jobs like a madwoman. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, but, hey, it worked out!"

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• Glamour: For a girl just starting out stacking, what would you suggest she buy?

  AT: "I switch up my wrist jewelry a lot, but I always have a Peak cuffon. It's simple but cool and very comfortable. Consider it the perfect starter piece. I also love the Mini Bone cuff. Both are from our classic collection and are always a part of my stack. Also, I never take off my yellow-gold and white-diamond Burnish Letter cuff that Jennifer made for my five-year anniversary at the company. I usually always wear brass jewelry, but this is my one special fine piece I wear daily."

Glamour: What's one way you transition your jewelry from day to night?

AT: "Typically at night I just wear a ton of bracelets on both wrists. During the day, my stack is usually smaller and consists of simpler styles. At night I add the XL Chain Link cuff and layer in either medium or small Stud cuffs, plus the Triangular Block cuff for a dressier look. Depending on my outfit, I may throw on my long, gold charm necklace. Everyone at JF is a firm believer in layering...more is a good thing!

(glamour.com)

Heavenly!

I recently featured Heavenly Tanudireja in a blog post, and was so excited to see yet another article with pictures of some of his latest work. His pieces are truly amazing!

“I don’t like practical jewelry,” said Bali-born, Antwerp-based Heaven Tanudiredja. “I don’t like jewelry that’s normal or classic, either,” he continued. That would explain the designer’s hyper-sculptural necklaces, cuffs, and harnesses, which, as we’re sure you’ve now gathered, are none of the above. Having launched his range in 2007 while working with Dries Van Noten (he also did a stint at John Galliano’s Dior after graduating from the Royal Academy in Antwerp), Tanudiredja sees jewelry as a form of armor. “And I think it’s a way of telling a story—you have to discover all the details to understand it,” he offered.

Last season, his story began in a particularly unexpected place. The Fall 2013 collection was inspired by mental illness—specifically, autism. After diving into research, Tanudiredja felt that those who suffer from such disorders are seemingly trapped in a mental cage. “But if you stay inside your head,” he said, “there can be a beautiful chaos. I tried to put that beautiful [aspect] into the collection.” The result was weighty brass, gold, and vintage crystal wares covered with tiny, empty chairs, metallic wheels (representative of the constantly spinning psychological gears), and small hands that can’t quite touch. “It’s intense,” said the 30-year-old designer. No kidding.

Having just released a collaboration for Bruno Pieters’ ethical Honest By range, Tanudiredja has much to look forward to in the coming months. In addition to his Spring ’14 presentation at MADE Fashion Week in Paris in September, a selection of his work is currently in Iris van Herpen’s installation at Showstudio, and he’ll have two pieces on display in the upcoming exhibition Fashion Jewelry: The Collection of Barbara Berger, which opens at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design on June 25. Priced between 325 and 6,750 euros, Tanudiredja’s designs are carried by retailers such as 10 Corso Como and Dover Street Market. (He’ll be taking over the windows at the latter’s Ginza location this September.) And the talent is working hard to keep up with an influx of orders. “Hopefully, we can produce more, so everything isn’t so limited edition,” says Tanudiredja, who currently produces between seventy and eighty pieces per season. There are some things, however, he’d prefer to keep the same. “I’m a simple guy,” he said. “I still want everything to be done in front of my eyes. I do believe that if you want to make a good product, you have to do it yourself.”

(style.com)

Jewelry Trends at Design Miami/Basel

Elisabetta Cipriani/Enrico Castellani and Louisa Guinness Gallery/Anish Kapoor are instant favorites!

From June 11-16, sister fair to Design Miami lands in Basel.  While wealthy art collectors gather to buy art at Art Basel (Bazaar rubbed shoulders with Wendi Murdoch and Dasha Zhukova among others at its Miami equivalent last December), the discerning design fan goes to appreciate, pore over and purchase design at the Design Fair.

And this year there’s a new perspective – jewellery designed by living fine artists.  So an Antony Gormley piece will sit happily next to an Anish Kapoor – only in miniature, and wearable. We round up the best jewellery/art shows this year.

Elisabetta Cipriani/Enrico Castellani solo show

Elisabetta Cipriani, whose Heddon Street gallery exhibits artist-made jewellery, will present Superficie: a bracelet and necklace designed by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most avant-garde artists. Using the same techniques that he did for his iconic relief paintings over a decade ago, he has created geometric patterns on sheets of gold to create the same effect. Each piece is an edition of 12.

Louisa Guinness Gallery/Anish Kapoor solo show

When curator Louisa Guinness hit on the idea to approach artists such as Sam Taylor-Johnson, Gavin Turk and Antony Gormley to express themselves through jewellery design, the result was a fascinating exploration of adornment as art. At Design Miami, Guinness (who has also sold pieces from 20th century artists such as Man Ray and Alexander Calder) is presenting a solo show from Anish Kapoor, whose collection is both geometric and intricate in stature.

Ornamentum/Contemporary jewellery

Dutch art jeweller Ruudt Peters’ latest work ‘Qi’ is a collection of drawings on stone fashioned into brooches and pendants, and layered with further drawings of silver. The fascinating exhibition results from a three month sojourn exploring alchemy in China. Other highlights of wearable exhibits include rings adorned with piles of nuts, bolts and gemstones from Karl Fritch and a sculptural piece from original contemporary jeweller Gerd Rothmann.

Didier Ltd/Ute Decker

A must-see presentation is the wearable art from Ute Decker - the German-born artist and jeweller. Arm sculptures made from recycled silver and rings from ecological gold are beautifully fluid and striking in their architecture. Decker is presented by Didier Ltd - a London-based gallery, which specialises in jewellery by leading 20th century painters, sculptors, designers and architects such as Georges Braques.

(harpersbazaar.co.uk)

Gilded Edges: Jacqueline Cullen

Jacqueline Cullen

Jacqueline Cullen has broken every rule in the book that has tied the use of Jet to jewels used by widows as 'mourning jewelry'. This extremely rare fossil exploded in the times that Queen Victoria, widow to Prince Albert, wore only black jewelry.

The queen unknowingly became a “trend setter” in her choosing of only jet black pieces for ornamentation. Today, Jacqueline has revised and changed the meaning of this material that is currently not well-known or commonly used.

She has expanded its connotations and power and has enhanced its imperfections - things that were considered insurmountably imperfect until recently. Jacqueline finds inspiration in nature and reinterprets whatever she sees with fluid forms characterized by fractures, fissures, and cracks that she fills with cascades of yellow gold and diamonds.

Today, Jacqueline Cullen is one of the most extraordinary artists in Britain bringing back prehistoric and sensual materials and drawing in an audience that is open to delving into a more contemporary side of jewelry.

(Vogue.it)

Exquisite artistry indeed....I love those "golden touches."

Wing's-n-Things: Jessica Robinson

A New York designer interprets the yoga philosophy.

Jessica Robinson

New York based designer Jessica Robinson began designing jewelry while teaching yoga. Her stylistic journey began with her giving form to her favorite mantras through the use of diamonds.

Her first collections were very simple and inspired by yoga and its positions. With time, Jessica Robinson began to revisit her sober approach to arrive at more elaborate pursuits. She took a whole new direction in 2009.

  The volumes are energetic, the symmetry is surprising and the pieces take on the title of “bold statement piece.” The desire to tie her jewels to fashion, to make them more dynamic, to create new proportions and to revisit her fashion design background though the launch of a surprising jewelry collection was born. She uses gold and champagne diamonds for a line of wings, chokers, rings and earrings that have won over the likes of Sienna Miller, Lily Cole and Rihanna. She has made handcrafted gold and ebony special interpreters of an ethereal message.

(Vogue.it)

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