subject: The Invisible Work In Fashion World [print this page] In fashion world, there are Haute Couture and ready to wear garments. The first is completely customized, but ready to wear clothes can be bought in the store directly. Compared to customized womens clothing which is launched two times a year, advanced jewelry is much slower, because its development of production process takes longer time. Jewelry can be divided into senior jewelry and general jewelry. The Gemstones of senior jewelry must have top quality and are purely hand made. So it is hard to find senior jewelry in most jewelry stores.
The several so-called Haute Couture stores only exist in France; actually, the high-end jewelry producers are fewer. Costume design is led by designers, the entire making process of senior jewelry must make beautiful creations, including the gem cutting, diamond cutting division, and mosaic and polishing. No matter brass beads or chrysanthemum stone, they are all engraved with hand. Thats why senior jewelry is so expensive and precious.
Each piece of senior jewelry starts from a design sketch; all details need to be achieved by the cooperation of those craftsmen. A problem in any link would ruin the jewelry. So it not only needs twenty years of experience but also first class aesthetics to complete a precious treasure. How does high-end jewelry complete? Paris has always been the high-end jewelry center; the exact location is at the Vendome square and Peace Avenue. Over the centuries, kings and noble celebrities all over the world come here to purchase custom high jewelry. Here thus brings the best jewelry artisans, Cartiers senior director is a member. Some craftsmen in special assembly line are fewer and fewer, such as polish architects. This work requires patience, therefore, it is done by women, and the tool is used by cotton.
Advanced jewelry industry is not set in stone; a senior jeweler said with the 20 years stereo design trend of high jewelry, casting wax carving is gradually introduced into workshops. As a matter of fact, it is also a very old technology. Different from large-scale casting of general industry, wax carving has high requirements, take a Cartier Leopard bracelet for example, carved wax model requires craftsmen to work 400 hours to complete. The wax casting is not simple prototype, but every place mosaics precious stones should be carved out, so completion is very slim in many parts, and then plaster makes it into plaster model. He must be very careful, because once a failure, it needs to start all over again. In Senior Cartier jewelry workshop, this mode is never reused. From the above information, we can get to know how difficult a piece of senior jewelry is and the reason why they are so expensive.
