A Day in the Life: Krizia Jimenez
Antler Accessories, her eponymous label and silversmithing the natural world
A Day in the Life is a series by F&M where we invite fashion practitioners to share a day in their life.
Krizia Jimenez.
Krizia Jimenez is a Filipino fashion and jewellery designer who runs two labels. One of these, Antler Accessories, began in 2011 as an after-school project to create pieces she could not find in the local market. She describes the line as “jewellery with a kick”, built on colour and wit.
Her eponymous label, Krizia Jimenez, is her sculptural silver line. Working as a one-woman team, she makes jewellery based largely on flowers, mushrooms, insects and other creatures. The pieces are strange and otherworldly, closer to specimens than to wearable objects. She calls this sensibility a kind of “watered-down avant-garde”.
In this edition of A Day in the Life, Krizia takes us to her jeweller’s bench and the pieces taking shape there.
Current work drawing inspiration from flora. Image courtesy of Krizia Jimenez.
A work-in-progress sculpture made out of sterling silver. Currently in the process of soldering the flowers to the steams. I like getting inspiration from nature. Recently I haveve been drawn to nudibranchs and orchids.
A pair of earrings with a surrealist theme. Image courtesy of Krizia Jimenez.
A pair of earrings with a surrealist theme. Apart from nature, I also take inspiration from cultural symbols. I am particularly fascinated by the human eye and how it is represented. I am about to add more details to this piece.
Krizia’s work bench. Image courtesy of Krizia Jimenez.
I usually work on a jeweller's bench using a torch, hammers, files, saws and other tools. When I am not working on a piece I am either sketching or researching wherever I am.
Sample sketch from Krizia’s notebook. Image courtesy of Krizia Jimenez.
A sample of a sketch and the work in progress piece. I like to have a sketchbook on hand with me wherever I go so that I can jot down ideas and themes that come out in the spur of the moment.
One of the brooches inspired by an orchid and its anatomy. Image courtesy of Krizia Jimenez.
I like to incorporate a lot of little details and elements so that viewers can gradually explore and discover new things as they look at my pieces longer. In this picture, I am in the process of soldering patterns of wires through these perforations on the brooch.
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About the writer
Krizia Jimenez is an artist and designer from the Philippines, with a penchant for conceiving and crafting pieces that are sculptural and quietly unconventional. She works across the disciplines of traditional art, graphic design, production design and fashion. With an enduring interest in the visual arts, she pursued a fine arts degree. During this time, she also started delving into fashion, sculpture, illustration and painting. From there, she continued her formal studies with a second degree in fashion design. Most recently, she has been immersing herself in the craft of metalsmithing — an amalgamation of her interests in fashion and sculpture.