Friday, May 18, 2007 Make your own fashion statement with Swarovski By Jenara Regis Newman
SWAROVSKI makes one think automatically of man-made crystals of the finest quality, which are used to embellish designer gowns or crafted into fashionable baubles and other accessories. Recently, Swarovski introduced to Cebu do-it-yourself fashion jewelry.
Is it easy? If you’re into crafts, it should be, especially as Swarovski has a catalog of possible fashion blingblings for one to do. At the “Create Your Own Style” launching of do-it-yourself Swarovski accessories, Cebuanos had a chance to make necklaces, bracelets, rings or even iron-on designs on t-shirts.
One can also create table lamps and other household accessories, like throw pillows with Swarovski crystals, especially with its iron-on beads. Swarovski crystals can be used in myriad ways: the possibilities are limited only by one’s creativity.
At the “Create Your Own Style” launching, members of the press were guided into making a ribbon-tied choker (convertible into a bracelet) in less than an hour! That’s how simple do-it-yourself Swarovski jewelry can be.
More recently, a Swarovski team came back to Cebu to present the company’s spring and summer trends focusing on individuality. The trends are the art of “being relaxed,” of “being intimate,” of “being quiet,” of “being physical,” and of “being excessive.” To express each of these individual trends, there are designs with Swarovski crystals one can make, or have crafted by a professional jeweler.
To complement these trends, the House of Swarovski has come out with new crystallized elements in mint alabaster and rose water opal, plus new shapes: the Cosmic series, the graphic bead and the modular bead. Other new products are the crystal aerial mesh and crystaltex.
The Swarovski team was headed by Bernice S. Quiambao, market manager of Crystal Fashion Components for North and Southeast Asia-Pacific, Swarovski. She is based in Singapore. In Cebu, those interested in Swarovski crystals and do-it-yourself blingblings may get in touch with Jan Marie Sepulveda at Piroutte, TPC Bldg., Banilad Road, with telephone number 343-7805.
