Fashion and Jewelry: A Precious Alliance

Sophie Feracci Jewels

Just like their clients, new generation female designers are constantly demanding quality, with an element of fine craft often cited as an essential factor. One such designer is Sophie Feracci, head of the Luma Jewels brand. Feracci, who previously worked as a model and journalist, has harnessed her passion for fashion to create the French-produced “haute fantaisie” lines, which allow you to “metamorphose your look. “ In developing her brand, she sought to bring an added dimension of pleasure to the customer, represented by fine jewels which can be paired at free will. An "adopted Toulousaine", Feracci draws sketches of the various models, rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets before making the prototypes and entrusting them to her French workshop partners. Her jewels, always so brimful of finesse and gleaming with golden colors, are actually decorated with colored stones. According to the designer herself, they tell the story of a shiny-looking lady who finds herself in a desert. These charming accessories for which she is so renowned are clearly among her signature items, and splendidly communicate her sense of fashion to the public.

Anais Preaudat is another designer based in the Toulouse region, whose finesse translates into lightness and transparency. Her jewels, superbly designed and tinged with shimmering, light-acid colors, are made from Plexiglas – a subject which has interested the youthful Anais ever since her years at the National School of Applied Arts and Artistic Techniques. After recovering small shards of glass, Anais began to create her own jewelry before displaying it at the school’s Christmas market. She met with immediate success. Her hand-crafted jewels are not only extremely light but totally timeless and oozing with contemporary style. As with other up-and-coming designers, Anais is overjoyed that her jewels are both worn and appreciated for the sensations they produce. Such sensations range from pure “joie de vivre” to “tender loving kindness,” depending on the colors and shapes chosen.

 
Anais Preaudat Jewels - Photos Fabrice Meuwissen

Equally renowned for her fashion sense is Mathilde Danglade, a jewelry designer with several years’ experience. Born on the Ile de Re, she became a seasoned traveller who seemingly received her calling when living in Hong Kong. It was while producing antique-based art that she became aware of the fondness she held for ethnic jewelry. A chance meeting with Indian jewelry specialists at a fair encouraged her to reach out to, and subsequently visit, Indian manufacturers renowned for specialist jewelry knowledge. In addition to being extremely fashionable, all of her creations offer genuine personality. You might compare her to a fashion stylist who designs her line and anchors it with the narrative: Mathilde’s jewelry has been created to showcase stones which tell a story based on distant voyages and nostalgic memories, and yet at the same time seeks a purely contemporaneous style.