Jewellery Designers Shoot For Hollywood Fame






by Adrian Jones


Jewellery Designers Make Stunning Products For The Silver Screen

Jewellery designers have been invited to send in items of costume jewellery they have designed for the film industry. Spectacular necklaces, bracelets and tiaras which have had their very own starring role and adorned well-known film stars are going to be sought. Of course the glimmering assortment of glitter and bling for the movies are paste rather than diamonds, but they produce a good show.

Pieces by jewellery designers for films will be put on show at the Jewellery on Screen event at Somerset House on The Strand in London next June as an element of London Jewellery Week. The show has got Orkney jewellery designers contemplating how a lot of our established collections which range from mens Celtic rings to modern day style jewellery may very well be just ideal for the film industry.

The Tudor range, for instance, influenced by the gemstones and spectacular decoration of the period, is a timeless style for films about Elizabeth I featuring Cate Blanchet or Helen Mirren. And our Louise ring could actually decorate the finger of her namesake in Thelma and Louise, played by Susan Sarandon.

Jewellery Designers in the Movies

One Orkney collection offers Birdland necklaces, earrings, brooches and charms showing birds flying across a northern sky. Daphne du Maurier's novel, The Birds, however produced a scarier view of these things - not improved by a Hitchcock horror film featuring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor! The Heart series links with plenty of famous films such as the recent Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. But aside from the romantic Heart we also have Braveheart, who could happily wear lots of the mens Celtic rings or our Sword kiltpin style.

Sword, not surprisingly has been a important element in numerous pictures about Arthur, Camelot and Merlin. The well-known Willow design has got the same name as the quest film starring Val Kilmer and Joanne Walley and who knows what Toad and his chums would make of it in Wind in the Willows.

The modern day piece True relates to many pictures just like the kooky True Romance starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette or True Grit, the John Wayne or Jeff Bridges adaptation. And Chanticleer, based on the fable of a rooster and a fox, may well be a nice layout for the Fantastic Mr Fox.

There are several more blockbusters to choose from that we could provide types to fit. Orkney may well not yet be among the centers for jewellery designers who provide pieces for Hollywood, but lots of our collections are donned by stars who love our style and design.




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