2/27/12

Jewelery Designers Go For Movie Fame

By Adrian Jones


Jewelery Designers Create Breathtaking Products For The Silver Screen

Jewellery designers have been asked to submit pieces of costume jewellery they have already made for the film industry. Breathtaking necklaces, bracelets and tiaras that have had their own starring role and adorned popular film stars are now being sought. Certainly the glimmering range of glitter and bling for the movies are paste instead of diamonds, but they make a good display.

Pieces by jewellery designers for films will be displayed at the Jewellery on Screen exhibition at Somerset House on The Strand in London next June as an element of London Jewellery Week. The show has got Orkney jewellery designers pondering how some of our long-established collections which range from mens Celtic rings to modern style pendants may very well be just perfect for the movie industry.

The Tudor range, by way of example, inspired by the precious stones and magnificent decoration of the period, is a traditional 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 provides Birdland necklaces, earrings, brooches and charms showing birds flying across a northern sky. Daphne du Maurier's novel, The Birds, however created a more terrifying view of these things - not improved by a Hitchcock horror movie starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor! The Heart collection links with all sorts of famous films like the newly released Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. But independent of the romantic Heart there's also Braveheart, who could gladly wear lots of the mens Celtic rings or our Sword kiltpin design and style.

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

The modern piece True relates to many films including the kooky True Romance starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette or True Grit, the John Wayne or Jeff Bridges version. And Chanticleer, based on the yarn of a rooster and a fox, may well be a nice style and design for the Fantastic Mr Fox.

There are numerous more blockbusters available that we could provide models to fit. Orkney wouldn't yet be one of the centers for jewellery designers who provide pieces for Hollywood, but a lot of our choices are worn by stars who love our style.




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