How do travel and culture influence your creative vision?
Not locking them away for “best.” They’re cotton thread, so they soften and develop character. And if they wear down, they can be rethreaded. They’re not fragile in that restrictive, don’t-touch way. They’re meant to move with you. That, to me, is modern luxury – things you actually use.
Travel has shaped my whole life. I studied languages at university, lived and worked in France, and after leaving the City I became a travel journalist, which I still do when I can. Travel is the thing I live for. I’ve always loved proper immersion – actually feeling a place, the people, the food, the colours, the atmosphere. Every bracelet is named after a place that means something to me because I link colours to memories. Paris means independence and reminds me of visiting my brother when he was at university there and feeling footloose and fancy-free. Marrakech is exotic, and Morocco as a whole is warmth – the people, the landscapes, the food. I travelled around Morocco in a 4x4 with my husband when I was pregnant with my first child. The car even got stuck crossing a dry riverbed. I remember getting a baby scan there because all the bumping about made me paranoid, and the scans were cheaper, so I used it as an excuse to check in on my baby again. Those memories stay with you. St. Moritz is my dad and my family – skiing, childhood, emotion. I’ve also had every kind of travel experience – Ibiza nights, Italian Riviera summers as a child, freezing in Bolivia under a fur pelt with no electricity. All of that filters into the way I see colour and atmosphere. My creative vision is basically everything I’ve absorbed over the years. It’s not technical. It’s instinctive.
You say your bracelets are “meant to be lived in.” What does that actually mean?
It means diamonds that fit into real life. Not fantasy life – actual day-to-day life. Wearing them with jeans, taking them on flights, travelling with them, cooking dinner in them, running errands.
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