British designer Giles Deacon made his name in the fashion industry mixing superior craftsmanship with whimsical designs and popular motifs. He specializes in crafty volumes and proportions. This design sensibility carried itself over into his collaboration with Atelier Swarovski. In his fourth collaboration with the renowned crystal jeweler for Autumn/ Winter 2009, Deacon gets handy with familiar craft material, felt, and mixes them with embellished crystals of interesting shapes and sizes. The crystals are hand-stamped and hand-marked Crystallized Swarovski Elements in select colors with beautiful names such as golden shadow, light rose and peridot. Other than the usual crystals, studs, pins and cupchains also adorn the 5mm cutout felt base. The palette is dark and luxurious in cool grays and sensuous earthy browns and creamy whites. The collection is creative in its mix of medium but also extremely wearable with the recently popular minimalist trend, and definitely good news for those allergic to metals and minerals.
