Daphne guiness- armor glove!

Daphne Guinness + her diamond glove armour
Contra Mundum ~ Latin for “Against the World” is a 5 year bespoke ‘glove’ project. A magnificent diamond glove by the creative spirit of a fashion icon and jewellery designer.

Over five years, Daphne Guinness in collaboration with Shaun Leane, created a white gold and platinum glove, studded with over 5,000 pavé white diamonds, set in the shape of a bird formation, and weighing over a thousand grams in 18ct white gold.

The Glove :: A diamond set armour-inspired piece
Striking diamond birds cascade around the arm, as though caught in mid-flight.

The hand is protected with a bold metal cuff, hand-forged and beautifully engraved.

Made in two parts, the cuff can be worn alone as a hand glove, or extended into an evening glove. Every detail in the piece, including the chainmail, has been carefully constructed by hand to ensure a perfect fit to Daphne’s arm. The glove was molded from Guinness’ own hand, and is a stylized armour made of precious metals, studded with gems

 

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To read more about this beautiful work of art that took five years to make check out this website! http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/galleries/TMG8616646/Daphne-Guinness-wears-a-glove-which-took-five-years-to-make.html

 

Dino Valls

Dino Valls’ painting is primarily characterized by the way in which he manages to manipulate the concept of time, whether it is historical (real) or fictional, contributing in the deeply personal character of his work. Nevertheless, what trully captivates the viewer is his gripping realism whose disturbing veracity transcends the limits of reality and ends up utterly fictitious. Astonishingly, this is a painting entirely made in the studio, full of riddles and symbols, an intellectual in vivo achievement that avoids inspiration from reality, it does not emerge from its close observation. Surely, Dino Valls is deeply interested in depicting the psychological state of his subjects, however in order to realize that he makes use an exhaustively detailed, almost anatomic, depiction of human body, looking back at Flemish painting which he manages to reinterpret in a deeply personal way.