Dominic Jones: Jewellery Designer

Occupation	Jewellery Designer
Style	Designs show elements of warrior/tribal themes
Years Active	Four: Launched in 2009 with collection ‘Tooth and Nail’
Background	Trained as a jeweller at Sir John’s School of Art & Design
Awards	New Gen Award (Five times) ‘Jewellery Designer of the Year, 2011 ELLE Style Awards Nominated for 2012 British Fashion Award for ‘Emerging Accessories Designer’
Collaborations	Art collective, ‘Wowow’ 2009, Alice Dellal to launch ‘Dominic Jones Jewellery’ Gemfields Ambassador of the World Land Trust Charity. Previously chosen as one of eight world class jewellers to design a one-off piece with Gemfields, to raise money for endangered elephants
Worn by	Beyoncé Rihanna Florence Welch

 

The jewellery produced by Dominic Jones is powerful and expressive, even though it uses organic shapes. The reflective, sharp structures give a sense of power to each piece. This is emphasised by the references warrior and tribal-like shapes and angles used. Claw-like points give an animalistic and aggressive feel to his work, enhanced further by the armour-style finish each piece has. His main influences come from the punk subculture.

Dominic Jones

www.alexloves.com:

 “Dominic Jones is one of those young jewellery designers really breaking through right now. His pieces are solid chunky gold and silver, with a real punk twist. (His good friend and punk-goddess Alice Dellal is a backer behind the brand). This season’s collection is vampire inspired, with the Tooth and Claw rings, and the Fang necklace. At £225 they’re perhaps not that cheap, but some things are worth the investment. And sometimes it’s nice not to have to scrub the cheap jewellery off your fingers everytime you’ve worn them.”

 

I like the aggression and warrior-like elements Jones’ work has. Although most of his work is either gold or silver, he has some pieces which use bright colours to make his work more feminine. His work could reflect the personality of a strong and confident woman who may perhaps wear his jewellery.

Florence Welch for Dominic Jones

Pink Claw ring

Alice Dellal for Dominic Jones

 

Alligator cuff

Daphne for Dominic Jones

Headpiece #1

Headpiece #2

Jessica Brown Findlay For Dominic Jones

Jessica Brown Findlay For Dominic Jones

 

Jil Sander: Fashion Designer

Occupation	Fashion Designer
Style	Minimalism
Years Active	Founded in 1968. Resigned in 2000, but label was continued. Sander returned in 2003, then left again in 2004. Returned again in 2012 as creative director.
Background	Studied textile design in Krefeld. Graduated as a textile engineer in 1963
Awards	Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz by the Federal Republic of Germany for Sander’s achievements in the fashion industry
Collaborations	1985: created costumes for Mozart 338, a dance piece performed by the Hamburg Ballet 1996: awarded the Fashion Group International’s Fashion Legend award 1996: Jil Sander Eyes with Alain Mikli collaboration becomes available 1998: Designs a trainer with Puma Oversaw the design of menswear and womenswear for +J : a collection from Japan’s Uniqlo
Worn by	Tilda Swinton Kate Bosworth 

 

Over the past 44 years, Jil Sander’s company has earned countless fans with her iconic simple and modern look. With other designers like Céline and Stella McCartney taking elements of the famous look to perfect modern separates, it’s an image that’s sought after by thousands who want the professional, slick look that Jil Sander has to offer.

 

Using simplistic and sometimes boxy shapes with simple fastenings give a smart and minimal style. The addition of bright, bold coloured pieces matched with a crisp white shirt make the oversized shapes more feminine.

Jil Sander

 

 

Sarah Mower for Vogue, on Jil Sander Spring 2013:

 

“Her program notes said that she intended to “Reset to zero”; and, indeed, it was a spare, true-to-form presentation she had mustered for the runway for her first outing. It majored on all the purist design pieces her constituency expects: white shirts, inventive-but-not-freaky tailoring, coats—clothes, in general, that do not display the body in any way that will compromise the woman who is going about her business (which is probably in business). What she had right were the proportions and the colors: elongated, curved, sleeveless jackets; jackets and coats with three-quarter-length sleeves; narrow pants; A-line skirts; pristine sleeveless white shirts, also cut on a forgiving A-line.”

 

I admire how Jil Sander is able to produce a new look with each collection, even though the pieces and overall appearance is very simple. However, I personally don’t like the boxy look that the garments have: I think it’s too bland and unflattering.



A/W 2012



A/W 2012



A/W 2012



A/W 2012

 

S/S 2013



S/S 2013



S/S 2013