Dominique Lucas – rose gold gorgeousness jewellery inspiration…
I came across some images of rose gold pieces by Dominique Lucas a few weeks ago, fell in love and decided to do some digging on this lady and surprise, surprise it appears she’s yet another Brit crush… Honestly it’s not deliberate, I don’t do it on purpose. I don’t know why it is that right now just about every fashion muse I have is British, maybe it’s to do with all the Brit-Celtic bits lurking about in my gene pool that makes the aesthetic so appealing to me!
So then, Dominique is a Brit who in fact started out studying a medical science degree. But she was also doing apprenticeships alongside master craftsmen in Florence and Mexico whilst studying and ultimately she decided that this was in fact her calling in life. Lucky-clever-poppet for getting to pick between a career in medicine or design and of course once again proving that life is never fair and sometimes nauseatingly so: pretty, brainy, creative. Nuff said.
The rough and wrought nature of her pieces really appeals to me and in particular these pieces which are from some of her previous collections… I feel like none of them would look amiss on a biker and in amongst folds of black leather and drapey t-shirts or dusting the knuckles of said biker chick. Which by the by is one of the new retro trend I see resurging at the moment, a throwback nod to the 1960s American biker gangs.
Her new stuff has the same sculptural quality to it but the designs and casts are rather more fanciful and entitled “Juniper Berry Collection”… And she’s already establishing a bit of a celebrity following by the likes of fellow Brit rapper M.I.A. (she who is most famous for the song “All I wanna do is take your money” from the “Slumdog Millionaire” soundtrack) and who donned the gold lion cuff seen above in her infamous appearance at this year’s American Super Bowl alongside Madonna (her finger flip gesture did not go down well with Middle America it would seem), see here for pic…
And if you liked all of the above you might also fancy her detachable shoe jewellery which she showcased at last year’s London Fashion Week and which I came across on Pretty Portobello . I do. I heart it all very much…
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