The beauty of brocade, the warmth of felt and the sensuality of sheer silk are the inspiration for Breathing Space by Elina Ahluwalia’s new collection of textile based jewellery. She brings together contrasting material like sterling silver and silk and makes textile cross over to become jewellery in this concept collection titled “Elevated – from Garment to Ornament”.
The Collection comprises of the following capsules, like the Chest Warmer Series, which is an ode to felt with hand printed felt yoke neckpieces intended to embellish as well as warm the wearer. The Fluid Sheer has sheer silks in blue-green & red-orange-fuchsia colour ways turned into multi-way neckpieces with semi precious stones & shells as accent. The Goth Gamcha is lycra embedded mini gamcha in four colour ways and can be worn in 4 different styles in combination with the Gothic Rose Window collection jewellery. The Kalamkari Collection sets the carved wooden blocks in intricate fretwork of sterling silver as one of a kind neckpieces, pendants and rings. And the Chindri is an amalgam of fabric techniques across weaves, dyes, prints and stitches, which are just as stunning in small wasted swatches.
At Breathing Space, jewellery is not just adornment or pure ornamentation, but an assertion of the wearers’ individuality, another non-verbal mode of communication, and a liberating expression of one’s personality. The Jewellery, an autonomous object of art and thus can be as dynamic, as subtle, and as unique as the personality, as bold or understated as the wearers’ mood, and as classic or avant-garde as the occasion may demand. The label was launched in January 2003 and is retailed at Ensemble, Melange, Zoya, Samsara, Amethyst, Weaver’s Studio, Araliya and Anonym.
