June 17, 2009

Designing Pearl Jewellery

One happy customer recently asked me how I come up with the Mai Pearls pearl jewellery designs. Whilst I am in the UK I cut out images of jewellery that I like and put it all in a scrap book which I later look at and use as inspiration for new designs. I also read trend prediction magazines to try to keep up to date on colour combinations and new looks. Most of the pearl jewellery design work is done in China with my suppliers. I am surrounded by pearls, semi precious stones and the clasps so I know what can be created and how it will look. I find the colours of the stones inspiring and thankfully I don't ever seem to have the equivalent of writers block whilst I'm there. This year I only had 6 days to put together the Autumn Winter 2009 and Spring Summer 2010 collections! Designing jewellery is not only a creative process but if you take on board future trend predictions, it is also very much a calculated decision.

Posted: June 17, 2009 11:43 AM