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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Prince of Persia Filming Starts with Jewellery Supplied by Thorn - August 2008

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal has started shooting scenes for his latest movie role in Prince of Persia, Sands of Time on location in Morocco and will be wearing jewellery supplied by Thorn for much of the film. Spotted hand in hand with girlfriend Reese Witherspoon just before the first day of filming began, the actor was dressed in warrior costume wearing mens deigner bracelets, earrings and rings all supplied by Thorn. The film is a Disney production due for release in 2010 which brings characters from the Prince of Persia video game to life on the big screen for the first time is tipped to become yet another Disney blockbuster.

Items supplied to the film makers costume department included the Rams Head Bracelet by Stephen Webster, Shaun Leane's Horn Interlocking Rings and Wings Earrings from Andrew Engligh, from Clerkenwell Green and himself tipped for great things in the jewellery industry.

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Jess & James jewelry. Jess James Idol Jewellery Collection is Launched Online

A little history

In 1988 two young guys had a vision of a jewellers that would strip away the smoke and mirrors of the jewellery trade, a shop that promoted great jewellery designers in an environment that was broad minded, honest and creative, where clients could be involved in the process of creating gorgeous jewellery.

20 years ago Jess & James both aged 23 opened the doors of their Soho store to cries of derision from the jewellery trade. Where was the carpet? Where were the counters? And why was there a whopping big fish tank? Luckily the fashion press were kinder to us and we soon got a reputation amongst the creative

 community of Soho for having wonderfully innovative stock and offering expert and honest information on commissioned jewellery.

James has since moved on and the store has expanded but the original objective is still in place. To create and promote great jewellery in a welcoming and honest environment.

Thorn Jewellery Launch an exciting new collection of mens designer jewellery called Idol by Jess Canty. Jess is the driving force behind london's premiere Jewellery Shop Jess James. The range features bold and unique mens silver rings and mens pendants the collection using coloured diamonds as the gem of choice. Starting from £220 the collection offers something for everyman.

Jess Canty describes the ethos behind his collection: "I had plenty of rings to choose from when I went out, but I wanted to be sure I was wearing The Ring in the room. It had to be unique, bold, studded with diamonds, a real statement piece. So I designed the Idol Collection." - Jess Canty, Jess James, London, 2008.

This rings true when you hear that Thorn offer free postage within the UK andnext day guaranteed delivery, plus they post internationaly free of charge using an international signed for service.

"Thorn Jewellery's claim to be the world’s best online retailer of mens designer jewellery gains certain credibility this month as they become approved stockists of Jess Canty with exclusivity in the online retail space for his acclaimed Idol Collection."

"Sitting comfortably alongside their existing ranges by Stephen Webster, Shaun Leane and Vivienne Westwood, some of the finest mens jewellery makers in the UK today, the Idol collection will add strength by offering bold and unique pieces to Thorn's online proposition."

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Marcus Schenkenberg Launches a Line of Pearls for Men. YOU ROCK Collection by Marcus Schenkenberg

YOU ROCK Collection by Marcus Schenkenberg

The top model and the specialist for pearl jewellery GELLNER have newly developed the worldwide first pearl jewellery collection that can be worn by men also.

Marcus Schenkenberg was significantly involved in the development of every piece of jewellery. This also applies to the precious materials as well as to the designs. The collection contains only jewellery he likes to wear himself. 

The “YOU ROCK Collection” is sort of a modular system and consists of necklaces (among other braided leather, tied silk, ray leather) that can be combined with various pendants (e.g. anchor, cross, pearl).

 

Every single pendant of this blackened silver line has besides black diamonds an exlusive fiji culture pearl.  

The “YOU ROCK Collection” is underpinned by several bracelets which are partly studded with black diamonds in addition to fiji pearls. The international star photographer Mayk Azzato put the top model in perspective. 

Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop, better known as Marcus Schenkenberg (born August 4, 1968) is a model, actor, singer, writer, and TV personality born in Stockholm, Sweden to Dutch parents. He has a citizenship with Netherlands, but has been based in NYC since 1991.

Will real men wear pearls? Male model and reality television star Marcus Schenkenberg hopes so. Schenkenberg has partnered with German pearl specialist on YOU ROCK by Marcus Schenkenberg a line of pearl jewelry for men. 

 Designer Mayk Holländer created the black-silver collection with black brilliant-cut diamonds, highlighted by vividly colored Fiji cultured pearls.

Black chokers made of leather, silver, knotted silk or stingray leather are combined with pendants that represent an anchor, a cross or a skull and highlight a single pearl. Matching bracelets made of black knotted silk are also adorned with brilliant cut diamonds and Fiji cultured pearls. (Luxist)

Interesting.

info:www.marcusschenkenberg.eu

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Dino Di Modolo. Jewelry for men's

Dino Modolo is not your average jewelry designer. As the child of Italian parents who was born in Switzerland, he grew up between Venice, Italy and La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland. Immersed in these two cultures, Dino came to know both the exquisite artistry of Italian jewelry craft and the technical precision of Swiss horology. A passion for these separate worlds combined in the young man and shaped his ambitions for the future.

Initially entering the world of timepiece design, Dino became a highly sought after artisan in the industry. After spending a number of years in this obsessive atmosphere, he decided to branch out into fine jewelry design with his own company Di Modolo. This new venture provided Dino with the opportunity to create innovative and elegant jewelry designs which reflect his various skills and inspirations.

An assemblage of distinctive collections signaled the arrival of a new and exciting talent in the world of designer jewelry. With vibrant creations that display both elegant architecture and inspired originality, Di Modolo quickly made a mark on the world of jewelry fashion.

With his "Falco" collection, Dino has turned his focus to the precarious task of designing jewelry fashions for men. Though Italy has a long tradition of men's jewelry, the trend has been slow to expand globally. 

 

However, Dino Modolo's experience in timepiece craft and his particular upbringing have provided him with the skills to create men's jewelry that is tasteful, comfortable and expressive.

 

 

 However, Dino Modolo's experience in timepiece craft and his particular upbringing have provided him with the skills to create men's jewelry that is tasteful, comfortable and expressive.

 

 

By maintaining a simple design aesthetic and minimal usage of gemstones, Dino's "Falco" designs offer a measured and well-defined style for men. Crafted in 18k white, yellow and rose gold, the jewelry is accented by diamonds, black onyx and the occasional length of rubber tubing. 

These handsome pieces provide a subtle accent rather than gaudy flamboyance. Above all else, these designs are strong and represent the pinnacle of class in men's jewelry design. 

 

 

With roots in timepiece construction and design, founder and designer Dino Di Modolo was eager to extend his design expertise to launch his own luxury jewelry line which he did with Di Modolo jewelry in 2005.

 

 

 Since then, Di Modolo has captured a loyal clientele of high end retailers and prominent clients across the globe. Di Modolo jewelry is created from the inspiration of the men's mystique exuding strength and style balanced with excellent Italian craftsmanship, function and design.

 While Di Modolo is a fairly young entrepreneurial endeavor, Di Modolo has quickly joined the upper echelon of luxury jewelry houses across the globe with showrooms in Italy, the United States, Russia, Japan and Dubai.

 

This Di Modolo "Falco" bracelet is a men's design crafted in 18k white gold with diamond accents. This is a striking and unique men's bracelet from Di Modolo.


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