Korean born, Samantha Sung launched her eponymous label in London, in 2006. Her clothes are high quality and hand crafted. She creates original and inspired prints. I love her floral prints and the retro and feminine shape of her dresses. The website : https://samanthasung.com/
Morganite is a variety of beryl (an aluminum beryllium silicate) like emerald and aquamarine. Its colour is pink and varies from light pink to violet-pink, peach, peachy-pink, or salmon color. That’s why, it is sometimes called “pink emerald”. Morganite is found mainly in Brazil and Madagascar but also in Afghanistan, China, Mozambique, Namibia, Russia, Zimbabwe…
The Turkish jewelry designer Gurhan Orhan studied the craft of the ancient goldsmiths and namely the use of pure gold. In refining these techniques, he creates marvellous pure 24 karat gold jewels. His touch comes from the fingerprints in the marks of hand-hammering (“Gurhan’s fingerprints”). It gives an unique aspect to gold and shows that…
Coral is organic like amber ; it is formed by living organisms (corals). “When the coral polyps die, the hardened skeleton remains, and this material is what is used as a gemstone”. The coral has several colours: white (mostly), orange , red, grey and black. Coral is found in “Red Sea, the Midway Islands, the…
Iolite is a magnesium aluminium silicate and has a blue-violet colour. This fine gemstone is found in Brazil, India, Madagascar, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and in the United States. Furthermore, the name comes from the greec word “ios” meaning “purple”. The Viking sailors used the iolite as a polarizing filter in order to find the sun…
Erik Madigan Heck is my favourite fashion photographer. His photos are colorful, pop, romantic and poetic. I like the color contrast, the mix of patterns, the blurry artistic, the moving models, the use of flowers, the retro and colorful style.