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Alison Lou, jewels and smiles

Published on February 18, 2024

The new amusing jewels of the American designer Alison Chemla and her Alison Lou ♦ ︎

She creates jewelry that is beautiful to wear. But also fun. It is the idea on which the work of Alison Chemla, the founder and designer of the New York brand Alison Lou, is based. As in the Pop Art movement, Alison Chemla is also inspired by popular and contemporary motifs. For example, with his now famous Emoticore collection, which uses expressive icons that all add to smartphone messages.

Bracciali con conchiglie e palme — Bracelets with shells and palm trees

Next to the icons, Allison Lou then added themes like Casino and Secret Garden, but always with the addition of a bit of irony. The Mama Mia collection, instead, was created after a summer trip to Italy: it is an expression that she must have listened to who knows how many times. Finally, in the spring of 2018, Alison launched Loucite, a collection of hoop earrings made of lucite, a material that is polymethylmethacrylate, a plastic, and hand-painted enamel. Although the material is not precious, the jewels of the Loucite collection were worn by Emily Ratajkowski, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Gigi Hadid, Tracee Ellis Ross, Celine Dion. They also like jewelry with a smile.

Anelli in oro e diamanti — Gold and diamond rings

Anello in oro, smalto e diamanti — Ring in gold, enamel and diamonds

Collana in oro con pavé di rubini — Gold necklace with ruby pavé

Anello Fettuccine, collezione Mama Mia — Fettuccine ring, Mama Mia collection

Anelli in oro e smalto — Gold and enamel rings

Three Smileys for Messika

Published on February 25, 2022

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Collana a catena con pendente Smiley con pavé di diamanti gialli

Since the world, too often, communicates the worst side of humanity (or, better, the lack of humanity), let’s try to find a smile again. A smiling jewel can be an idea. So it happens that on the fiftieth anniversary of the Smiley icon, the Parisian Maison Messika turned to the artist André Saraiva, famous for his Mr. A graffiti to create smiling jewels.

The Smiley icon was created in 1972 by French journalist Franklin Loufrani to spread good news and over the years the smiley face has become one of the most important icons in graphic design, used by millions of people. The idea of celebrating the anniversary with a jewel has resulted in new pieces from the Lucky Move collection, launched as a line of lucky jewelry. The small Lucky Move pendant unveils a smile in yellow diamonds in a white pave gold ring.

In its exclusive version, the second jewel of the collection is a Lucky Move XXL necklace, which competes as the most expensive Smiley in the world. Offered with wide chain links, 43 millimeters in diameter the laughing face emerges through the meticulous pavé of several hundred yellow diamonds and white diamonds totaling 7.90 carats. The number 50 of the anniversary is engraved on the back of both necklaces, which commemorate the anniversary edition.

Bracciale Smiley su disegno di André Saraiva

When Smiley decides to celebrate its 50th anniversary, it naturally surrounds itself with brands which share a similar joie de vivre and mischievous spirit.
Valéria Messika

Valérie Messika e Kate Moss — Valérie Messika (a sinistra) e Kate Moss

The third jewel conceived explores the smiley face motif in a different environment. Valérie has revisited one of her latest jewels from the My Move collection. The collection consists of pieces that can be transformed at will thanks to interchangeable bracelets. In her Smiley edition, the bracelet is offered in black rubber on which the Smiley icon is present in different colors: black and white or black and yellow and in various sizes. The jewels are on display in the Messika Parisian boutique on rue Saint-Honoré, but are also available at the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann.

Immagine promozionale dei gioielli Smiley

Disegno preparatorio del bracciale Smiley

The emoji by Roberto Coin

Published on October 7, 2017

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Roberto Coin sends emoji messages through the Tiny Treasures collection ♦ ︎
The emoji, the small icons that have become almost indispensable in a sms or whatsapp message, are now part of everyday life. Several jewelers have noticed and translated the expressions expressed in jewelery emoji: why not communicate a mood with a precious icon? But, of course, the same subject can be interpreted differently. An example is Roberto Coin, who has launched the Tiny Treasures collection, for the time being only on the American market, with the icons that are so popular not only among young people. These pendants are made of 18 carat gold, enamel and diamonds. The stones make up the eyes, the enamel gives shape to the expressions of the icons. Smiles, winking, love, are the emotions that communicate the chains with the Vicenza jeweler’s pendant. The jewels are made in Italy, they are also sold online through Neiman Marcus and cost just over 700 to 800 euros. Lavinia Andorno

Pendente con emoji, oro, diamanti e smalto

Spallanzani: say love with emoticon

Published on June 7, 2017

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Spallanzani’s precious emoticons to say differently «Only you» ♦
Carlo Spallanzani in 1880 could not foresee it. Also because in those distant years an emoticon was not even imaginable. At Las Vegas’s Couture, however, jewelery brand founded in Milan for almost 140 years ago and run by the fifth generation of the family, has brought, among other things, the latest jewelery collection, Mood, which uses precious icons Used in messages or email. 😀
Bracelets, in short, can communicate emotions and feelings. But, of course, Spallanzani also showed something other, like the Manette collection, born in the 1970’s and reinterpreted with stylistic variants and the use of precious stones embedded. Circles and semicircles in gold, chains and pavé of diamonds or sapphires, but also with the use of enamel. Handcuffs collection existes of a long time and is renewed over the years. But if you know Spallanzani you know that the most famous classic collection is Only You, which started in 1970. It’s a jewel initially created as a gift from Guido Spallanzani, nephew of the founder, for his wife Rosabianca. The bracelet was customized with the TSTQCA code message, the initial letters that make up the words in Italian “You Are All I Love”. Romantic, sure. But also a good idea of design, so much so that gender developed again with different words and phrases.

Nuovi bracciali della collezione Only You

Orecchini della collezione Manette, in oro giallo e smeraldi

Collana della collezione Only You in oro rosa e diamanti

Anello Manette in oro rosa con diamanti e zaffiri rosa