Styled by Dazed manager in-boss IB Kamara, Swarovski’s gem royals are seers for post-pandemic articulations of dynamic creativity.
All it’s anything but a pearl hoop for savants to condescend the 2019 Met Ball, a turning point in men’s style. At the point when Harry Styles ventured onto the celebration’s pink rug with a solitary pearl hanging from his proper projection, many heard the squeak of an open entryway, proclaiming a time of colorfulness inside menswear – especially when it came to gems.
However, men had been embellishing themselves with stylish stones for quite a long time, from the icey nonentities of the hip jump, decked in heavy chains and great barbecues, to the Maharajas of India. The latter acquired probably the most luxurious – and really camp – adornments assortments in history. As we break from the chrysalis of the previous year, this is decisively where Swarovski has turned its consideration. Extravagance, improvement, resurrection.
Gems as a medium “to touch off self-articulation,” as Giovanna Engelbert, Swarovski’s first historically speaking imaginative chief, puts it. Engelbert’s presentation assortment, which landed recently, shimmered with all the joie de vivre that makes her brilliant individual style so covetable – first as a model and afterward as a design editorial manager on the road style circuit.
Think giant gobstopper rings, gems, and semi-valuable stones hung together in boho circles and energetic, studded chokers. Together, they structure a shimmering, “mathemagical garden,” which has now been reconsidered by Dazed manager in-boss IB Kamara, in a select publication shot via Carlijn Jacobs.
“IB is an advanced artist,” Engelbert says, “he utilizes pictures as words.” Here, the vibrant bits of the originator’s first excursion at Swarovski have been reconsidered with a unique style – drifting; straightforward Millenia accessories have been rehashed across the middle like attire collars.
While the mark’s bunched, geode-Esque Somnia wristbands are garlanded along with headpieces and turbans. “Since forever, men have consistently worn gems – this decoration had been lost, yet now men dare to put themselves out there through their looks like never before.