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Singapore Jewellery Designers Get Inspired By Precious Artefacts From ACM

Fashion and art have always been closely intertwined, and a new home-grown collaboration is bringing that relationship to the fore.

by Amanda Chai   /   December 16, 2021

Designs by Boheme SG drew from Peranakan bridal jewellery and Chinese dragon motifs seen in the ACM. Credit: Boheme SG

The Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) Singapore and The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) have partnered to present The Museum Collection, a first-of-its-kind collaborative retail initiative featuring home-grown and Singapore-based designers.

The collaborative opportunity is open to TaFF members, who sent in design proposals for their capsule collections inspired by conversations with and visits to ACM, says Leonard Augustine Choo, TaFF’s director of industry development and engagement.

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Available to purchase in-store, the first iteration spotlights jewellery, with collections from five Singapore-based jewellery designers – Boheme SG, BP de Silva Jewellers, Marilyn Tan Jewellery, Pearly Lustre and State Property. The designs are sold exclusively at multi-label store Design Orchard till December 31.

Kennie Ting, director of ACM and Peranakan Museum, says: “ACM wishes to be part of the larger local fashion and creative community and ecosystem. We hope that our collection may be used as a resource for designers here, and that our rich pan-Asian, cross-cultural heritage may be the starting point for new explorations of what Singapore fashion and design could be.”

Ahead, a quick look at The Museum Collection.


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Singapore Jewellery Designers Get Inspired By Precious Artefacts From ACM
BOHEME SG
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For her capsule, French designer Veronique Machharam of Boheme SG drew from Peranakan bridal jewellery and Chinese dragon motifs seen in the museum. Titled Xanadu, the collection ($80 to $980) pays homage to the ancient city of Shangdu – located in present-day Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia – and its famed, somewhat romanticised legends of emperors and dragons.

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BP DE SILVA JEWELLERS
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Heritage brand BP de Silva Jewellers, founded in 1872, offers a nod to its own legacy with the Moonlight Collection ($2,800 to $3,200) – a contemporary take on signet rings, which were traditionally engraved with the wearer’s family crest, set with a Blue Sheen Moonstone.

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MARILYN TAN
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Singaporean designer Marilyn Tan, who has an eponymous label, took inspiration from early 20th-century jewellery stencils in the museum’s collection. She turned these work-in-progress tools into wearable, standalone works of art – by making them larger, and in 925 silver and gold vermeil with matte and polished finishes. There are necklaces, earrings and rings ($660 to $1,490). Necklaces are strung on leather cords to accentuate the timeless shapes of the pendants.

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PEARLY LUSTRE
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Pearl speciality label Pearly Lustre’s nine pieces ($88 to $288) – including earrings, necklace, and bracelets – are inspired by antique jewellery pieces from Asia, and given a fresh spin with pearls. Founders Caroline and Wilson Tan started the brand to make pearls – once the preserve of royalty, the wealthy or elder women – a more inclusive gem that is not limited by age and class.

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STATE PROPERTY
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Fine jewellery label State Property’s capsule is inspired by the divergent stages of life and death in two distinct groups of South-east Asian jewellery artefacts.

Husband-and-wife founders Afzal Imran and Lin Ruiyin were drawn to ancient jewellery that signifies life (decorated with engravings of flowers and leaves to symbolise fertility and vitality), and those that mark death (mourning jewellery of the past used pearls in place of diamonds as a sign of respect). These resonated with their experiences of fine jewellery as being intimately intertwined with the stages of one’s life.

In their capsule ($1,900 to $2,980), there are two signet rings with intricate floral carvings, while a pair of earrings in the brand’s signature silhouette gets a twist with Akoya pearls instead of diamonds. The centrepiece – the double-faced George Mutiara Pendant – features floral carvings on one side and pearls on the other.

A version of this article first appeared in The Straits Times 

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