Friday, March 2, 2012

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I just started my Bachelor of Fine Arts this week and am having the best time looking through course options and picking all my future electives. I remembered reading in The Gentlewoman about Gaia Repossi and her BFA majors, archaeology and anthropology and wishing I could do something like that. It's exciting to be able to study other subject areas and take up some very specific electives after three years of set timetables studying fashion business and graphic design.
While I was in Paris I came across the Repossi store in Place Vendôme and stood transfixed admiring those Berbère Rings in the window. Rohan wasn't familiar with Repossi and I had to tell him how she not only designs amazing jewellery and gives a great interview but also has the most incredible wardrobe. I think these photos from The Coveteur say it all. 

All photos from The Coveteur

13 comments:

  1. hahahaha major jinx I was about to post this!!! great minds think alike.. I can't get over how great how wardrobe is. Celine!!!! everywhere!!

    and you know how I feel about those rings..

    xxxxx

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  2. I thought you would love this! Good books, lots of Repossi and Celine, dream life!

    xx

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  3. Her style, her elegance! And she sounds like a very interesting and intelligent woman as well. Maybe I should study archeology or something like that for a year, just to broaden my perspectives a little. Maybe she was inspired by archeology(skeletons, fossils) when designing these pieces?

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  4. Oh god those rings!!! I'm having a ring-gasm, if that is at all possible.
    Good luck with the fine arts degree, there are so many directions you can take with something like that! I'm studying music at the conservatorium this year and it's similarly exciting :)

    x x Stace
    tee+fame

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  5. The Repossi store is amazing. I always have to pull myself away;) It's so nice to see a woman with great style, who is so intelligent and talented. Her career really inspires me.

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  6. love the coveteur - that jewellery has me week kneed! :)
    xx
    INSIDE IN INSIDE OUT

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  7. Alice, I think I remember her saying that studies of tribal cultures really influenced her designs. It would defiantly be very interesting to study archeology!

    Stace, thankyou. Best of luck with your degree too!

    Lindsay K, I find her career very inspiring too. I wish I could visit the store more often...

    Fabilha, Same, I wish I had those rings!

    x

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    1. That's so amazing! I've been wanting to take up another course, I kind of miss learning but I'm getting old! How long is your degree Talisa?

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  8. What gorgeous photographs - I love the floral bralet!
    I wish I had some spare time to study something new - I miss my study days, the exciting times of learning new things you may have never known otherwise.
    I have studied Creative Writing, Applied Biology and done some Post-Graduate Research in Genetics. Its strange - I wonder, if funding to scientific research hadn't been so dramatically cut, that my life might have taken a different path.
    Gems x

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  9. Ree, you should! There are so many mature age students in my course, I think you're never too old to go back to study :)
    My degree will be 2.5 years as I have prior learning recognition, a bit of a challenge around work but I'm getting a lot out of it.

    Gems, It sounds like you have a very interesting background. I think coming from a different field of study can be a great advantage! I found my fashion course to be a really helpful prelude to graphic design etc.

    x

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  10. Gaia's aesthetics are impeccable. So simple and streamlined but intricate. Just came across your blog. Really love your collages and photos.

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  11. Please tell me you brought back a piece of Repossi? I read that Gentlewoman article as well, she sounds like all kinds of amazing.

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