5.25.2010

i love,

PAMELA LOVE.

AS AN ARTIST, STYLIST, MUSICIAN AND JEWELLERY DESIGNER, IT'S APPARENT CREATIVITY IS FREE-FLOWING. NOT INITIALLY INTERESTED IN JEWELLERY DESIGN PER SE, SHE SPENT HER YOUTH CREATING MOULDS FROM NATURAL REMNANTS, SUCH AS DEER TEETH AND STORING THEM CASUALLY ON CHAINS. IT WAS WHEN SHE GREW UP SHE SAW THAT JEWELLERY WAS MORE THAN A 'FASHION ACCESSORY'. "PEOPLE ADORNED THEMSELVES WITH JEWELLERY DATING BACK TO PRIMITIVE TIMES, AND MANY CULTURES BELIEVED THESE ORNAMENTS HAD MAGICAL POWERS OR BROUGHT LUCK...I LOVE THE IDEA OF CREATING SOMETHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE A FAMILY HEIRLOOM."

AND FAMILY HEIRLOOM ALMOST DOESN'T DO THESE PIECES JUSTICE. HER YOUTHFUL PASSIONS OF NATURE-REAPING DID HER NO HARM, AND LOOKING AT HER MOOD BOARDS IT'S CLEAR SAID INTERESTS GREW. CLAWS AND SKULLS AND MAGICAL IMAGERY CROWD HER STUDIO SPACE- INSPIRING COLLECTIONS OF EAGLE TALON RINGS, ANCIENT DAGGER PENDANTS, RAVEN SKULL NECKLACES AND CRAB CLAW CUFFS. COMBINING METALS AND GOLD, WITH ORNATE DETAIL AND INTRICACY, SHE CREATES PIECES WITH WELL, SCARY AESTHETICS. IN REGARDS TO HER COLLECTION, SHE THINKS IT SUITABLE FOR ANYONE -WHETHER IT BE MAN, WOMAN, HIPPIE OR SCIENTIST. HER DESIGNER COLLABORATIONS HAVE ONLY HELPED HER AND HER POPULARITY; COLLECTIONS WITH ZAC POSEN AND COLLABORATIONS WITH TWENTY8TWELVE HAVE HELPED GAIN CULT FOLLOWING WITH THE LIKES OF ERIN WASON, LILY DONALDSON AND MKO.

THE PIECES ARE UNIQUE AND MYSTICAL, WITH AN INDISTINCT MASCULINE/ FEMININE DIVIDE, AND ROCK AND ROLL SENSE OF CARELESSNESS. NEVER THE LESS, THE UNPRECEDENTED HEIGHT OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL MAKES THEM ANYTHING BUT CURSORY, ALLOWING WEARING A CAST OF THE HUMAN HEART AROUND YOUR NECK TO BE, WELL, NOT WEIRD.  

PAMELA LOVE, COUNT YOUR SELF LOVED.


IF ONLY PAMMY LOVED ME BACK, AND REDUCED THAT $500 PRICE-TAG.  
STUPID STUDENT LOAN WON'T STRETCH SO FAR. 

HOT DAMN.

3 comments:

  1. These are beautiful. Check out a guy called Finch, he used to be a student in Leeds, was sold in no.15 boutique and now is on Etsy I do believe! His stuff is simillar and only £40ish xxx

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  2. Love!Love!Love!Love!
    I love all the pieces!
    Great blog! I'm following you!

    xx

    http://wherethecoolthingsare.blospot.com

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  3. I've loved Pamela Love for a while... unfortunately not the price of it :(

    http://itscohen.blogspot.com/

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