2011 Spring Accessories ~ Fashion Jewelry @3

Apart from the items of my previous two posts, there are still lots of magnificent designers' accessories for the coming 2011 Spring to view... Now  lets take a look at the rest of the fabulous pieces of my picks from:

Herve Ven De Straetan:

2011 Spring Accessories ~ Fashion Jewelry @2

Let's continue to feast our eyes with the designers' jewelry creations...
Love the mixture of metal chains, rhinestones, a variety of beads, fabrics, charms, crystals etc...
I can't help analyzing the details of each item...
Featuring in this post are items from:

Emporio Armani

Love the weaved collar

2011 Spring Accessories ~ Fashion Jewelry @1

Less than a month, we will be welcoming 2011 and designers have already showcased their Spring 2011 collections.
I browsed through style.com 2011 Spring accessories report and I was amazed by some of their creations.
Sharing here with you are designers' pieces of my picks in, then I'll tell you which are my favorite ones at the end of each category.

Bottega Veneta

Amazing Chanel Spring 2011 RTW part 4 - Bags and shoes

Lastly and it's sinful to forget about those beautiful Chanel bags and shoes which were paraded at it's Chanel Spring 2011 Ready to Wear fashion show.
Here are some which wins my heart, and not forgetting a cool shades.

Amazing Chanel Spring 2011 RTW part 3 - Rings, Gloves and Bracelets

How can I ignore the most important category - fashion accessories while admiring photos of Chanel Spring 2011 RTW at style.com.

Here are picks of some adorable Bracelets & Bangles, Rings and Gloves:

Amazing Chanel Spring 2011 RTW part 2 hair accessories, necklaces & earrings

Chanel Spring 2011 Ready To Wear has an interesting full range of fashion accessories which complimented the outfits.  

Browsing through the photos at style.com, my eyes are on a pair of earrings which is combined with gold and gunmetal long chains.

Delicate hair accessories, contrasted the clean slick or pulled back pony tail models' hair style.

The necklaces are a mixture of materials, from long to short...filled with dozens of details.

 (Photos by style.com)

you may browse the whole fashion show at

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2011RTW-CHANEL

I Heart these pieces:

 Earrings

Long multi chains dangling earrings

Amazing Chanel Spring 2011 RTW part 1

Browsing through style.com...Chanel spring 2010 RTW collection is a must see...
I was astonished by the legendary Karl Lagerfeld's choice of fabric and ton and tons of fascinating details that he put in every piece of garment and accessories in this collection.
It's like a continuation of his story of AW 2010... A more exciting, young, chic and "No" it's not toned down at all...The story has another climax...
From the riddled holes outfits, mixture of texture using different fabrics - chiffon to tweet, selvedge and rugged even feathered edges etc...

My BEADialogy: It's not art... IT'S FINE ART!!!!

My BEADialogy: It's not art... IT'S FINE ART!!!!

It's not art... IT'S FINE ART!!!!

I am a huge fan of shoes and bags, apart from fashion jewelries...
These are breath taking... I've lost of words.

Dj Niza Minx Silver Sensation Necklace's proud & beautiful owner:

Here's the photo i promised...
 Dj Niza Minx wearing it with a bright colors sexy dress while attending White Party @ 7atenine feat Niza Minx&residents  on Oct 24, 2010

You rock the necklace  :)
xoxo

DJ NizaMinx's statement necklaces: Silver Sensation & Seductive Grey

An amazing order from an amazingly talented Dj Niza.
She provided 2 photos of necklaces, as reference and I was given a free will of creativity to turn the original into something special for her.
The 1st necklace is a silver piece:

Original idea is from the above metal and rhinestone necklace... which was not using beading technique.

It's interesting to transform a certain silver jewelry or fine jewelry into beadwork because it's challenging.

I selected a variety of different shapes of metal beads and metal findings, rhinestone beads, silver pearls, rhinestone spacer wheels and  multi color coated glass beads.

A wedding gift for a dear bride, Pearlyn Teh.

My dear friend from Astro - the TV station i used to work had invited me to her wedding dinner, which was held last Sunday.
When Pearlyn called me a month before the event, I offer to design some fashion jewelries for her to go with her wedding dinner outfits.
After several emails and photo sharing... I started work.

Revamp SooChin's Natural Crystals Part IV

Last bracelet, another favorite of my dear girl... golden rutile..
Since I did several different bracelets... I decided to make her something different.
This beautiful natural crystal with gold needles growing inside of the beads needs a make over...

Revamp SooChin's Natural Crystals Part III

Continuing this revamp project...
The original black rutile bracelet is gaped using rounded shaped 4mm size clear natural crystals... I decided to turn this into a modern black and nickel necklace.
Added some Jet color faceted bicone shaped Swarovski crystal beads, teardrop shaped glass beads and nickel metal connectors and other parts and finished with toggle clasp.

Before :

After :

Revamp SooChin's Natural Crystals Part II

Soo Chin has a beautiful citrine bracelet, clear and golden...but it's bored to see just the same beads so i weaved and string them into a 2 in 1 bracelet, decorated with some similar color faceted glass beads and  rhinestones spacer wheels.

Before :

After :

Revamp SooChin's Natural Crystals Part I

I have promised my dear friend Soo Chin to design some jewelry for her, and weeks ago, she,handed me a bunch of her "EXPENSIVE" precious natural crystal collection during our dinner session.

I feel so thrill to see those "collector items" which she has been collecting years ago and still keeping them like precious.. I know that some single bracelet cost few thousands  for each.  I'm glad I have the honor to redesign and make them fashionable, special and most important made by me  :).

All 13 natural crystal bracelet has 5 very interesting varieties of Rutiles, 3 Amethyst, 2bStar Rose quartz, 1 Star Garnet, 2 Green Phantoms, and some clear crystal beads which was originally beaded with the rest of the crystals using just elastic cords.

Soo Chin's Natural Crystals collection.

I start with Rutiles... especially the one which are most pricey... There is the Round beads Cat's Eye Golden Rutile bracelets.., Oval Rutiles and I had combined 2 multi color rutile bracelets into one design and decorated the beads with some metal bead caps...

Before:

After:

FINALLY..! SEX & THE CITY 2...YAY!!!

Finally, the movie that I wanted to watch is coming!  I am always a huge fan... since after the whole awesome 6 seasons, after SATC the movie... I still watch the dvd over and over again...
Dying to see Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda... But the most important reason to watch the movie of course is the fabulous stylist Patricia Field's creations and put together.  By looking at those photos of the new SATC the movie 2 snap shots.. those eye catching bright color outfits, chunky accessories, shoes, handbags etc... I'm so excited!!
:)

Amazing Valentino Spring Summer 2010

While I was browsing style.com, searching for new  inspirations for the upcoming collections, I was stunned by Valentino's Spring Summer 2010's collection... One thing that caught my eyes are those amazingly adorable shoes - collaborations of the brand and the super talented designer Phillip Treacy...then those couture with lace, chiffon,  organza etc... of course  with those beautiful handbags.... OMG....Takes my breath away!!  

 I hope you love them too.

The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection Part 5

Last 3 design of this collection...

 DELIELA Set

The carved rose is similar with the other  ivory color mother of pearl(MOP) rose shaped carved bead in Rosemary set, but this one is more rounded.
Team up with 2 butterfly shaped MOP craved beads (one as the end of the tassle and the other one as a decoration of the back extension chain.) and clear faceted puffed roundelle beads.
In this set, a leather corded necklace and matching pair of earrings

The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection Part 4

FLORA SET
One look at the name of the design, you already know that it's something with flowers.
This set is a combination of ivory mother of pearl carved flower with white base cloisonne beads in oval, round and coin shapes.
The bracelet has almost the same design as the necklace but i added 2 strands of metal chain to make it look chunkier.  The earrings are the simpliest, just white based cloisonne beads and white with purple spacer wheel.

The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection Part 3

BLANCIA Necklace

Blue natural shell round and different sizes of coin shaped beads paired with white rhinestone wheels, this is another simple short necklace for work and casual outings.

This set has only a necklace.

SHAYNE SET
Huge abalone (dark brown tone) mother of pearl flower carved bead (70mm) as pendant, decorated with

The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection Part 2

PENELOPE SET

This is something fun, gold metal chain with some cute charms with rhinestones, coins and white faceted glass beads.

In this set, there's a necklace, bracelet and earrings, goes well with any casual wear.

The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection Part 1

Finally beading is done... It took me a week to design and put together and another 3 weeks to produce to those orders.
In this collections I used a lot of mother of pearl carved beads and charms, apart from my usual metal charms, natural stone beads, glass and crystal beads.
They are 14 different designs, all are short necklaces.

Tannya Set:

The main beads are faceted glass beads..
for the necklace, i knotted leather cord as the strapes.. finished with black nylon coated wire as tassels.
Bracelet is weaved using a tigers tail and match with a simple earrings with tassels.

Lady Gaga's costumes & accessories

First of all, I have to give both thumbs up to this amazingly talented recording artist who has a great stylist.
Yes I am talking about Lady Gaga...whose the darling of the fashion world... I guess all designers and stylists must love her.

Imagine, who would though of wearing all those art wear, head piece, face mask and accessories which I can say some, are not even comfortable.
Especially seen her using hard core costume/art wear masters' creations like the late Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Thiery Mugler etc...

Amazing fashion jewelry designers: Erickson Beamon

The duo designers who make amazing fashion jewelries inspires me most and I've been following their creations for years and they always produce excellence and breathtaking creations.

Erickson Beamon has been a driving force in costume jewelry design for over 23 years. The brand is a partnership between Vicki Beamon and Karen Erickson, hometown friends from Detroit who share a passion for music, the arts, and fashion.
In 1982, the two girls left their lives in the Midwest for Manhattan, where they happened into jewelry design by chance while working on a fashion designer’s runway show.  Frustrated that no one would lend them jewelry to accessorize the collection,

Redesigning Intan's Vivienne Westwood Swatch watch Part II

As in my earlier post, I redesigned an old swatch watch of her's...to a bracelet watch, and used the remainding parts and created a long necklace...

Inspirations of the upcoming The Mod House 2010 Romantic Summer Collection.

Used to think that wearing pearl jewelry are concervative, and only suitable to proper functions...or wedding etc... seems old school...
But that was before, now I think pearl beads, mother of pearl jewelries are feminine, so chic and modern...even romantic! 
Pearl beads or mother of pearl beads are so easy to match with other different beads and materials...even metals, antique silvers, gemstones and leather too.
For the upcoming The Mod House Summer 2010 Collections, I'll be using a lot of pearl beads, mother of pearl charms, pendants, in different color and shapes.

Here are some pix by various designers and brands which i find inspiring:

Beads for Summer 2010 collections

New beads for The Mod House Summer 2010 colleciton.

Theme: Romantic Summer

For the coming collecitons, apart from the usual glass and metal beads, there are some mother of pearl shell beads, handmade glass beads and  China Cloisonne beads. There are a few new types of pendants and footage chains as to spice up the collection.

 

I am in the mids of designing, plan to have about 12-18 sets of designs, will be scheduled to start production ( 10 sets each design, 1 or 2 sets for each outlet of The Mod House through out Malaysia.) by next week, and the delivery deadline would be by end of 1st week of April.