Friday, 29 April 2011

Jewellery for a monarchist or an ironist

Tatty Devine are setting the royal wedding in perspex with a set of commemorative crown jewels, the cameo collection is a silhouette of the royal couple, made into everything you'd expect from a set of Tatty Devine jewelery, including pendents, earrings and necklaces.


If suffocating in a crowd to maybe but maybe probably not get a glimpse of our new princess and her dress (most likely by Sarah Burton) - then head down to Camden from the time the wedding starts, to beautifully eccentric Philip Normal and his Happy Shack, as Tatty Devine are opening a pop up shop within his madhouse. Check out the facebook event details for  5% off - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147465945321278. The pop up shop is there for all of the bank holiday weekend.


Harriet & Rose, the founders of Tatty who still design every single piece they sell, were nice enough to answer a few questions about their royal collection:


What inspired you to create these crown jewels?
The Royal Wedding of course! and they also refer to a back design we made in 2005 of a kissing couple which we were hoping to bring back and the wedding was the perfect reason to update the piece.
Where are they available?
Online and in both our shops! Covent Garden & Brick Lane. Also don't forget in store pop up shop & Philip Normal's Happy Shack 
What advice would you give to the newlyweds if you could?
Stay on honeymoon as long as you can and don't forget to get your photos printed and framed to give to the in laws.
Are you royalists yourself?
No, not really but still definitely not anti-sovereign. 



Tatty Devine usually collaborate with artisans and musicians from Gilbert & Georga and Mark Pawson to Peaches and Robots in Disguise. You could now collaborate with the designers yourself and have a one off piece of jewelery based on your silhouette, just pop into their Covent Garden store from the day after the wedding (30th) until the 2nd of May, have your photo taken - and facebook will decide the best silhouette, the one with the most 'likes' will be perspexed into history.