Simone Walsh is an Australian eco-friendly jewellery designer based in Adelaide in her home studio; dealing with recycled milled sheets and wires of silver and gold and gemstones. As an eco-friendly designer Simone promotes use of ethically mined gemstones and lab gemstones; and recycled products, by re-newing them and this can be seen via her collection of ‘recycled’ jewellery in which are made purely by spare pieces of metal from her other collections. Simone’s ‘Forget-me-not Post’ earrings are from her ‘Recycled’ collection, demonstrating the usage of the leftover metals, creating new earrings that are simple yet elegant. Simone hand produces all her jewellery, as she believes it is a method that can reduce pollution with smaller …show more content…
As Simone is also a graduate of Visual arts, her take on her designs are artwork that are often inspired by ornaments and pattern designs or nature inspired detailing that she seeks interest in. The name of the business that Simone has set up in her 20-year endeavour is simply her ‘Simone Walsh- Handmade Jewellery’, in which encompasses her business in the title. However as all jewellery is all handmade, she is a micro-business in which is set up in her home studio in Adelaide, were she is the sole employee but supplied with material from other business she is in touch with and support from her family and friends. As her part of her eco-friendly policies, Simone does not use any technology based tools, but simply traditional metal work cutting, by usages of saw piercing, gliding and etching, and tries to avoid unnecessary chemical usages, but if needed she opts to a less acidic and safer option for the environment, for example borax for flux and citric acid for pickling. Also as she is an individual whom produces her products the over all production of all her jewellery are made with a limited amount of them until all of one design is all sold out does she repeat the process of creating the product again, hence managing her waste of material. She also manages the waste via the process of re-using spare pieces if possible but if not, Simone minimizes the amount of left over metal, and recycles them so they can be melted down and refined for
Fran admired and collected other artist’s work for her home, but also as part of her trove of infinite objects that often made their way into her art. From the mad jumble of countless boxes and bags in her studio came often playful “bricolage” works of beauty, humor and imagination. She taught for many years at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, the Newark Museum and was actively teaching until just weeks before her death last year. An award-winning artist, she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, Victoria and Albert Museum, and in galleries throughout New Jersey. She began her eight-decade career as a fashion designer before moving into painting, printmaking, found art sculpture, book and paper making, and other multi-media arts. Fran studied art at the American School of Fine Arts, Newark School of Fine Arts, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. The works in this exhibition were generously donated by Fran’s family to The 1978 Maplewood Arts Center. Proceeds from all sales will benefit the center as well as public art in the
Primark meets the corporate social responsibility to environment at large. Firstly, Primark establishes a partnership with CottonConnect aiming to improve the farming technique that growing cotton with fewer resources. In this way, the farmers can earn more money for themselves. Secondly, in order to promote a green production
Her inspiration changes with each new range she masters from various cultures, periods, designers, and natural sources. But throughout her changes, Dinnigan keeps a few influences constant throughout her works such as immortal vintage styles, luxurious fabric choices and subtle feminine detailing.
Her husband tries and tries until he comes up with a great idea to give her an invitation to a ball. She cheers up a little until she realizes she can’t afford a dress. Her husband asks how much and had given her the money to purchase herself a nice dress. She has the dress but still doesn’t feel pretty nor happy after she put the dress on. She wanted more than just the dress which was jewels but didn’t have any. Someone suggested that she should use flowers, but didn’t find happiness in the flowers. Madame Forestier offer Mathilde to borrow her diamond necklace, which gave her the emptiness that she needed to feel happy. She had a great night and was on her way home when she went to feel for the necklace but found that it was gone. She started to panic and retraced her steps but couldn’t find it anywhere. She and her husband went from jeweler to jeweler to find the exact necklace and to replace it. They worked and worked until they had paid it off and returned it to Madame Forestier. She was a little annoyed since she had got it a few weeks after the ball. Eventually she admitted to what she had done and was surprised with what she was told. She was informed that the necklace was a fake. That it was costume jewelry. In this story the Madame was an outsider towards Mathilde. Mathilde didn’t know who she was and had taken the necklace to wear for the
Jennifer Lawson, who was rightfully terminated during Greene’s Jewelry Wholesale’s downsizing effort for consistent tardiness throughout her three years of employment with Greene’s Jewelry Wholesale, breached the confidentiality agreement to not share any information regarding the process used to create “Ever-Gold,” by sharing key process elements in producing Ever-Gold to a competing business named Howell Jewelry World. Ever-Gold is the primary asset of Greene’s and is sold exclusively through Greene’s.
Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.
Facts: Greene’s Jewelry primary asset is its patented process for creating a material called “Ever-Gold,” which is used in the making of jewelry. The company is based in Derry, New Hampshire, which currently owns a warehouse and two storefronts and employs 502 personnel. Jennifer Lawson was deemed as a professional, articulate, diligent and skilled worker; with the exception of routine tardiness, receives high marks on annual reviews. Jennifer Lawson as well as other junior executive secretaries are terminated due to downsizing.
There are many factors that contributed to the success of Puig Doria. However, the main component that brought Puig Doria into the spotlight was incredibly strong commitment of the owner towards the business. Puig Doria carried a tremendous amount of information about various designs of the jewelry and his knowledge exceeded anyone’s expectations, yet his support and recognition of the help that he received from the craftsmen was the key component to enable this individual to truly open his eyes to the world of jewelry. This provided him with resilience to manage and handle various facilities with no need to focus primarily on administrative facility that dealt with just the process of producing the product. (Melissa 79)
The teenage entrepreneur currently holds many roles including designer, author, and animated filmmaker. The young CEO creates and designs environmentally sustainable fashion and accessories. At the same time, she has both written and illustrated children’s books. She is also consciously promoting the need for sustainable products through her eco-friendly products for girls.
Kathleen Wright, founder of Piece and Co. had the goal to end global poverty. Many designers and fashion executives support this goal and were interested in making a difference, which is why her solution was textiles. She then provided employment to women from all across the world to create artisan fabrics, which she supplies to fashion brands and designers such as Nike, Diane von Furstenburg, Supreme, Opening Ceremony, Veronica Beard, Mara Hoffman and Shopbop. (Fleming,2016)
Madame Loisel is provided with a necklace from Madame Foresteir for the event, since she does not own any jewelry. Wearing the necklace exemplifies that Madame Loisel is disguising her true wealth status, so that she appears to be an upper class person. Furthermore, tangible and extortionate items make her feel happy. When she takes hold of the “superb diamond necklace, her heart started beating with an overwhelming desire. Her hands trembled as she picked it up….She
Paris, France the city known for its breathtaking scenery and elegant architecture, has been a prominent influence throughout the history of art and fashion. One area of design the French have been able to execute flawlessly is the craftmanship of jewelry. Since the 16th century artisans have held on to tradition by creating unique pieces that symbolize luxury and style. The history of jewelry in France has a long-standing prevalence as it has always been an expression of nobility and power among society. The quality of artistry for a single piece of jewelry from start to finish was sacred to the goldsmiths. It is said that Parisian jewelers were the pinnacle of creativity as they were able to broaden their craft across to other parts of Europe. The knowledge that was demonstrated through engraving was the result of artisans who visited different kingdoms and principalities. Throughout the years as different monarchies reigned there came a series
Accessories are a very important part of fashion and should be considered so a good example for this definition of sustainable would be the Hermes’ Birkin bag.
Middle class is booming worldwide and with prosperity comes consumers ' desire to show that they are doing well, therefore super brands like Danish Pandora and British Signet also called “category killers”, has stormed the global jewellery market where there is money to fight for. Pandora competes in affordable luxury segment, which in 2009 totalled 83 billion USD, equivalent to approx. 57% of the total market for fine jewellery. Affordable luxury still gives consumers the feel of stardust.