Emily Ratajkowski’s name necklace for son Sylvester is sparking a personalised jewellery trend: show your true love with a child’s thumbprint, or coded messages in hieroglyphs or Morse code
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Enter super-personalised jewellery.
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Australian jewellery brand Linden Cook’s Impression necklaces – made using a technique known as lost-wax casting – turn the thumbprint of a loved one into a sweet memento. The Impression collection was started with the aim of creating “timeless, handmade and one-off pieces of jewellery”, explains the brand’s managing director and co-founder, Georgie Amad.
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“We also wanted to build a collection that held genuine sentimental value for our customers. I think our customers love these pieces as they are incredibly personal and allow them to hold their most special memories and people close to them.”
Clever too are British-Italian jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici’s Loverglyph rings for her Dyne label. Each one is crafted with coded secrets, codes and symbols that are of personal significance to the client.
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Zena K’dor, creative director at the jewellery brand House of K’dor, says its popular Morse Code jewellery pieces – including earrings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings, all handcrafted in 18k gold – which use diamonds to spell out a special message in Morse code, exemplify what she thinks of as jewellery’s purpose.
“Morse Code jewellery is an invitation for our guests to convey a message … that is held closest to their hearts. It’s personal, symbolic, emotional, and truly is the ultimate form of luxury,” she says.
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- Queen Victoria had a bracelet with nine lockets containing strands of hair from each of her nine children – and who can forget Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton’s ‘romantic’ vials of blood?
- Today, Linden Cook’s Impression necklaces feature a loved one’s thumbprint, House of K’dor has its Morse Code collection, while Dyne’s Loverglyph rings translate personal sentiments into hieroglyphs