Monica Vinader men's jewelry

Monica Vinader Jewellery offers something unexpected.  It is unique and always a little extravagant. Her pieces seemingly tell the story of her life of collecting curiosities from around the world. 

Her inspiration comes from her native Spain, Central & South America, and her home, a studio in Norfolk, England.  Endless colour, experience and culture.

As one of the most highly regarded designers in the UK jewellery industry, it is little wonder that some of the biggest and most luxurious high street stores in the UK have been clambering over eachother to stock Monica's collections. 

Liberty, Harvey Nichols and Conran's stock her ranges in London alone, yet despite her success, the Monica Vinader brand remains as exclusive and sought after as ever.

 

From her world inspiration come pieces of hand-cut stones showcased in silver, all hallmarked in the UK. These unique pieces offer individual stories.

 

Stories that find you wearing Monica Vinader while you are riding in Argentina, hosting at Ascot, trekking in Marrakech, surfing in Sydney and above all, being uniquely yourself.

Monica began as the creative vision behind jeweller Robert Tateossian. Then as an independant designer created her eponymous collection in 2002 which has been showcased across the UK and Europe to rapturous applause. 

SEVAN BICAKCI: "Lord of the Rings"

The Couture Design Awards, the signature event of the Couture Show, exists to recognize the world’s most visionary designers, uncover new and emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of jewelry and timepiece design worldwide.

The Couture Design Awards Ceremony took place at Wynn’s most distinguished hotel, Encore, in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 30, 2009 in front of an audience of more than 450 members of the Jewelry community including retailers, exhibiting designers, and press. 

Surprise guest and celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe of "The Rachel Zoe Project" on Bravo TV, opened the evening’s festivities.

The evening ceremony for Couture Design Awards 2009 brought nearly three weeks of competition to a close. 

More than 10,000 votes were cast online during the first round of voting from May 13 to May 22. 

The online voting process narrowed the field of nominees to three in each of the 13 categories for a total of 39 finalists, who were unveiled on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at the Couture 2009 Welcome Reception hosted by Jill Zarin from The Real Housewives of New York City. 

More than 4,000 votes were cast on site at Couture 2009 during the final round of voting.

Couture Design Awards 2009 Winners

   Sevan Biçakci took Best of Men’s Jewelry for a pair of cufflinks in rose and yellow gold and sterling silver, set with black diamonds and featuring two paintings by Hasan Kale portraying Istanbul’s Bosphorus and the Marmara Sea with a galleon and one of the Prince Islands. 

Exotic spice bazaars, majestic mosques, fairy tale like minarets and imposing Sultans. Istanbul, the only city in the world which has reigned as capital of three different empires, is without a doubt the greatest muse for the man known in the fine jewelry industry as “Lord of the Rings.”

Born and raised in Turkey, one of a kind jewelry designer Sevan has been a bench jeweler for the last twenty years—and at the age of 36, Sevan’s creations are profound and unique. 

Each one is handcrafted from 24K, 18K yellow and rose gold, sterling silver with uniquely cut gemstones and antique cut diamonds that are inspired by the Blue Mosque from 17th century, the 6th century Hagia Sophia Church, the Topkapi Palace from 15th century and many childhood memories.

Sevan Bicakci is the recipient of a string of prestigious awards, including the Tanzanite Foundation Award for Best Independent Designer of 2007. Sevan has also won the  Town & Country Couture Awards over the last three years including the 2008 Town & Country Couture Gemstone Award.

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Magic in silver. Stephen Websters Mens Jewellery Collection.

Stephen Webster is the ultimate diamond geezer.  From a modest start in the Thames estuary town of Gravesend, near London, he has attracted some of the entertainment world's most alluring glamorous clients and established a loyal continually evolving, global customer base and in honour of his enthusiasm, commitment and creativity, has achieved several clean-sweeps in the jewellery trade's glittering prizes.  

Four-times 'Luxury Jeweller of the Year' in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005, 'Jewellery Designer of the Year' in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2006.  He is a freeman of the city of London.

But while the jewels in Stephen Webster's beautiful pieces may be exquisitely multifaceted, his vision has always been singularly focused.

With magpie-like tendencies apparently hardwired into his DNA, Webster's love of things that shimmer and glisten found him attending a Jewellery and Silversmith course at Medway College of Design aged just 16. 

During that very first term Stephen found himslf fired up with a passion for jewellery design and craftsmanship that remains at the top of his professional agenda to this day.

What makes Stephen Webster such an effortlessly contemporary, unconventional but persistently relevant star in the fine jewellery firmament is the way the designer cleverly blends a love of traditional craft values with his innate love of contemporary music, fashion and modern, rap 'n' roll street styles.  It's a unique and edgy approach that has been some 30 years in the making.

Meanwhile, his unassailably stellar celebrity client roster continues to grow at pace. The past few years have seen Stephen fashioning beautiful, one-off pieces for the likes of Madonna, Sharon Stone, Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopes, Cameron Diaz, Pink and Christina Aguilera. 

He’s also made mens jewellery for Elton John, Jay Z, Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage and Michael Stipe.

Thanks to Stephen Webster's influence and passion, the men’s market has become a key area of growth.

 
With his Stephen’s industrious talent he has helped coloured gemstones and fine jewellery back into the fashion zeitgeist and has been a key player in attitudes to jewellery.

"Things have changed" he says. "The fear factor, the reverence and the rather staid formality have all but disappeared. Magazines now have fashion shoots featuring cheap H&M jeans worn with £5000 diamond rings. Having a diamond-studded accent to a watch or a piece of jewellery no longer marks a customer as a flashy, ostentatious type. It just makes a person look more…lively."

Stephen's History After completing his training under Tony Shepherd, a former Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Stephen worked as a craftsman for several established London design houses. 

Amongst many highly regarded commissions was the honour - on two occasions - of setting the De Beers Diamond Stakes Trophy.

In 1982 he moved to Canada to set up and run a small studio designing and producing for an independent jeweller.  After returning briefly to the UK in 1984, Stephen could not resist the opportunity to move to sunny California where his bold style, employing unusual and exotic gems, continued to take shape with the help of an open-minded and enthusiastic audience.

Confronted by resistance to his bold and colourful style of jewellery in the UK, Stephen continued to focus on his market in the USA.  Slowly but surely collections such as ‘Jungle Fever’, ‘Crystal Haze’, ‘Thorn Noir’ and ‘Attention Seeker’ provoked intrigue and acceptance for the British designer that followed no trend.

In 1988, Stephen returned to London to establish the company that is now known as Stephen Webster Ltd.  

Now, with one of the largest jewellery manufacturing and design studios in London’s West End, Stephen Webster is widely considered to be one of the international scene’s most accomplished and exciting designers.

His company has expanded worldwide with independent boutiques in Seoul, Moscow & St Petersburg and over 50 concessions in the United States as well as Dubai, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. More stores are planned for the former Soviet Republics in the near future.

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Vivienne Westwood

 

Vivienne Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Glossop, Derbyshire on April 8, 1941, she moved to London when she was just 17. In 1970, with Malcolm McLaren she opened the shop Let It Rock on Kings Road, Chelsea in London to showcase their fifties Rock 'n' Roll records and memorabilia as well as fifties inspired fashion designs. 

 

Turning away from the hippy movement, young people started to come to the shop fuelling a revival of the period and it’s popularity increased as Elvis Presley began his 1970s comeback. A design icon of UK fashion was born.

Today Vivienne Westwood also designs fashi

on led yet very wearable Mens Jewellery based on her classic puink designs including Safety Pins and Razor Blades.

 The Kings Road shop was daringly name changed to "SEX" and sold leather clothing adorned with zips and chains, tee shirts emblazoned with slogans and pornographic images, rubber S&M clothing, ripped clothes and tee-shirts with pornographic text and images and Vivienne Westwood began to design clothes for the punk band, the New York Dolls.

 Punk style came together with the music of the Sex Pistols who play their first gig wearing clothes from the shop which has by this time had been renamed again. The clothes were the culmination of the ideas that had pervaded Vivienne Westwood's work. Zips, rips, chains, bondage, porn and slogans all featured to give a look that would go on to make a revolutionary impact on high fashion.

 

The classic proportions of English tailoring redefined Vivienne Westwood's vision as a designer, where English tailoring remaining to this day the foundation of her work. 

Ten years on from 1977 and the punk rock revolution, Vivienne Westwood showed her 'Harris Tweed' collection, as a jibe parody of the most English of ladies.

 With the opening of her exclusive Mayfair store and the first US flagship store opening in the SoHo district of New York, Vivienne Westwood became regarded in the industry as one of the top 10 designers in the world and in July 1990, she showed her first complete menswear collection in conjunction with Pitti Uomo in Florence. The collection included designs for mens jewellery and accessories.

Luxury diamond cufflinks and Skull Pendants from Vivienne Westwood's precious range are also available from Thorn Jewellery as special order items.  Please contact us for catalogue and availability enquireys.

Her success in the fashion industry has brought Vivienne Westwood the greatest of honours, now having an OBE for her services to the British Fashion Industry and was awarded the Queen's Award for Export. 

In January 2007 Vivienne Westwood was awarded a DBE

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