Katy - January 2010

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This piece was a designed for Katy and was a delight to create. Originally Katy had wanted something simple and elegant and was particularly drawn to our encrusted double headband designs. But at our consultation I advised Katy to stick to a single encrusted band as this better suited her. However we agreed that this would be too simple and looked into ideas to add more detail to the piece without losing sight of the elegance required to complement Katy's wedding day.

Eventually we decided upon an asymmetric design which although looks quite bold still has an air of elegance. I showed Katy two designs which she fell in love with and we decided to amalgamate the two to create this wonderful design. The band was encrusted in freshwater pearls and swarovski crystal and the decorative detail was layers of curled wiring finished with pearl and crystal to form a dome like shape which was then encircled with sweeping curls of wire finished with crystal (and this new design became the inspiration behind two of the designs in our new collections - hydrangea and hydrangeas (which was shown on the catwalk at the National Wedding Show at Olympia a couple of weeks ago).

Taking Katy's monochrome theme to provide the beading colours for her hair accessory, I also looked to use different shaped Swarovski cystal and freshwater pearls to provide extra texture. Apart from using round, xilion and helix shaped crystal I also used cube shaped crystal to complement Katy's princess cut engagement ring. Rather than use an even mix of the swarovski jet, black diamond, crystal silver shade and crystal beads, I graduated the colours so that the base was a mix of jet and pearl, graduating up through the colours until we reached a bright centre of crystal and silver shade. This helped to soften the impact of the colours to ensure that we retained the look Katy was looking for.

I also designed a freshwater pearl and diamante bracelet for Katy and Swarovski white and mystic black pearl with diamante bracelets for her bridesmaids.

For more information on this piece or if this has inspired you to use our Tiararama Couture service to design your tiara or hair accessories then please do not hesitate to contact us on 0845 3703110 or at info@tiararama.co.uk

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