Emerging Fervour

Some of you know Deborah as the beautiful-handbag designer behind Clements and the author of our ‘Secret Diary of a Handbag Designer‘ posts. Oh, and the one who designed our super hot logo. Fresh-faced and bronzed having just come back from her South African wedding, Deborah is all ready to brave the colder climate and show us her keep-warm Spring(ish!) wardrobe.

Vintage Suede Jacket ∨

^ Debs: “The 70′s suede jacket is my latest Ebay purchase. I’m really into suede and cant wait to work it into my wardrobe. The grey jumper top is actually a cardigan back to front, a great way to get more out of you wardrobe and get the new sweater jumper look”.

Stripe Jacket ∨

^ Debs: “Another daytimer outfit. My black and white striped jacket is my one of my favourites. It goes with lots of stuff and a subtle statement piece. I am a sucker for stripes but this is rather elegant as it’s made from a silk chiffon type fabric. I’m into white denims a lot again and they are a bit more stylish than normal jeans. The gold converse have that extra edge to the normal converse”.

Blue Cords ∨

^ Debs: “Most of my outfits are daytime weekend styles as I am a mother now – not much freedom for partying anymore! Now that spring is here I like to wear brighter colours and mixed with trench is classic and stylish addition and suits absolutely everything. I love the bright blue of the cords with softer warmer colours just to tone them down a notch”.

I first came across Alidra Alic’s jewellery collections a couple of months back whilst looking through the ‘things’ section of the COS site.

I am completely in love with the romantic surrealism captured in each piece. Alidra uses a self-invented technique to create these entirely unique plastic forms, adding freshwater pearls, gold, silver and precious stones to rings, necklaces, brooches and even cameos.

Alidra’s work challenges my perception of what jewellery is. In her own words, Alidra has “worked with themes of illusion and lack of function in order to awake the viewer’s curiosity, and to question logic”

It’s interesting that COS represents all that is clean and bold in cloth cuts, yet the jewellery designer holding their attention contrasts every inch, giving them yet another layer of intrigue.

Outside of the dreamy pieces from the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Collection, I love the necklace of rings…

The pieces are for sale. Contact Alidra through her site and watch out for her online shop launching in December.