Jewellery designers on Rise Creatives showcase their interpretations of the 2011/2012 trends of choker necklaces, cuff bracelets, earrings and rings plus the retro 60s & 70s jewellery styles.
With so many of the main fashion houses setting the trends for jewellery and accessories each year it can be difficult but not impossible for independent and newly emerging designers to make their mark in the industry. Designers carving out their own niche in this competitive world include Niamh Spain, Sabrina Meyns, Laura McNamara and Aisling Wallace.
Each with their own shop on Rise Creatives they are selling and showcasing their interpretations of the most recent trends for brooches and necklaces. This is where art meets jewellery.
The brooch, according to industry experts a popular accessory in the 70s, is making a comeback. The current selection on the site is made using a variety of different materials. Niamh Spain uses solid metals, Laura McNamara porcelain and Sabrina Meyns handmade paper and gold. Though often simple in design, these brooches are stunningly beautiful and eye catching.
The choker necklace too has been updated. Drawing inspiration from the ancient world, Aisling Wallace takes a piece of Celtic jewellery – the torc - and reinterprets it with a more delicate approach. She has started with a slender torc and adorned it with flying swallows. Laura McNamara and Sabrina Meyns showcase their necklace range and take their inspiration from nature. Laura using porcelain clay partially glazed creates a wonderfully unique pendent suspended from a sterling silver chain. Whereas Sabrina continues her fascination with flowers and has created a beautiful paper flowered necklace with silver seeds and sterling silver leaves.
According to Nina Lyons co-founder of Rise Creatives, “what we see coming from these new designers is very exciting. The quality of work and the creativity of design is impressive, especially from the new and emerging designers we have selling with us on the site. They see jewellery as a piece of art worn around the neck or pinned to the coat - worn to be admired”.
