Although the trend for this year gears towards simple drop and medallion necklaces, statement necklaces are still classic choices. For Cayetano's Fall Collection, they have decided to mix-and-match by combining both the medallion necklaces and the statement and bib necklaces with which they are known for. For this season CLC plays with gold, red, orange, green, pink, brown with hints of yellow for their jewelry collection. Here are just some of the pieces that they have chosen among our proposed Fall designs. Head over to their website to view their Fall Collection, which also include earrings and wire art bangles made by other Filipino Women Artisans. Make your Fall more interesting by adding jewelry to your wardrobe, CLC shows us how as well.
Last July, Nikki Ocean held her solo exhibit, entitled Prism Pains and Those Voices in the Wilderness, at the Finale Art File art gallery. She's a budding artist and I've seen her grow from her college days to the present date. You could say that I've been one of her biggest fans! After seeing her exhibit, I was inspired to create jewelry pieces that ran parallel and resonated with her paintings. This led me to experiment with different forms of beaded costume jewelry, as well as incorporating materials outside my usual style.
I have always been an accessory-loving person. I love wearing jewelry regardless of it being fine, bridge or costume. I also collect those made by different artists and retail brands. When I learned to make costume jewelry in particular, it played to my strengths as an artisan since I am a very visual and creative person. If I wasn’t doing this, I might have pursued painting or sculpture. Today, I see paint my canvass with my needle and thread as my brush and paint.
I am lucky to be surrounded by creative people from different fields, who are artists in their own way using their form of "art" to inspire, influence and showcase their own advocacy. I suppose this is an example of what art is about. At one level, art inspires and on another level, it's an indirect way to self investigation. Allain de Botton's animated guide to "What is Art For" explains it more clearly.
Live a life of meaning. Surround yourself with art! Keeping it real.- PJV
