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Wedgwood and Jewellery: London Fashion Week Choker

This choker was made by the jewellery artist Suzanne Lyons in cooperation with Waterford Wedgwood for London Fashion Week in the years 2001/02.

Metal mesh is lacquered in a light blue hue reminiscent of the famous Wedgwood jasper colour and applied with thin white coloured chains, just like the white decorations of jasper which are applied to the blue object body. In addition to the chains, flower decorated jasper beads are hanging from the mesh with a bigger drop-shaped bead decorated with the bas relief of a flower girl in the centre. Faceted crystal beads in blue, opalescent white and drum-shaped transparent ones complete this choker to a stunning but still wearable piece of jewellery.

In 2001, Waterford Wedgwood sponsored London Fashion Week’s pink ribbon campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer and to draw attention to prostate cancer.

Eventually, this project developed to a much larger scale when, in autumn 2001 and spring 2002, artists were asked to contribute by producing ‘one-off’ fashion or home ware accessories. They were free to choose the medium - the only requirement was to gather inspiration in some way from the works of Wedgwood. Fascinated by the look and the appearance of one of Wedgwood’s most widely renowned products jasper, Suzanne Lyons chose to show it from a different angle. Jasper jewellery has been a statement of fashion since the early pieces in the 18th century and the reappearance of Wedgwood jasper at London Fashion Week proved that it had not lost its appeal over the course of time.

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