While most other luxury jewelry lines have traditional cuts and stylings, Ilenia Corti started a jewelry line that is both playful and elegant. Ilenia Corti started Vernissage in 2007 and shows us how luxury jewelry is meant to be much more than a status symbol. Her playful styles and layout of the gems in each design allows you to feel lighthearted and young regardless of what your age is. To create this label, Ilenia Corti collaborated with Matteo Mena to create jewelry that symbolized a childhood-like place. Some have even referred to the line as being like Alice’s jewelry box!
Along with being playful, Vernissage collections carry deep meaning. Each collection has “atmospheric images” to it, drawing us towards the collection and helping us clearly understand the message behind it. At Selfridges, Ilenia Corti and Matteo Mena created an installation from their Nest Collection called Dried Waterfall to show the contradictory features of nature: a mother giving birth, and the destroying force responsible for rebirth. Water, a symbol of re-birth, was dried out to form long locks of blonde hair symbolizing powerful femininity.
Vernissage collections never stop to amaze us and we are always looking forward to see what they come up with next. The new Vernissage collection Fauna Decay is inspired by the love-hate relationship between man and nature. Their jewelry exhibits how animals protest because of man’s cruelties towards them affecting the natural balance of things.
Vernissage is now available at stores across the U.S. To view their collections visit Barneys.
Posted by Aanchal Gulati on August 9, 2011 10:15 AM
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