GRANDIOSE
Design Competition Winner | Spring 2015
Designers: Paula Costa and Timothy Howells
This piece is a fashion accessory produced to be a jewelry, a necklace that enhances the beauty of diamonds and its user. Grandiose is a contemporary design influenced by the biology of the human form and the synthetics of technological innovation, produced using LED lights, paper and reflective material.
"Gran-di-ose - affectedly grand or important, pompous. More complicated or elaborate than necessary, overblown."
Diamonds have a long history as beautiful objects of desire. Becoming fashionable accessories for society's elite. As they have become more desirable, diamonds represent a vain superficial beauty.
Grandiose is a reflection of this extravagant, becoming effectively more grand, more important, and more pompous.
Diamonds have a long history as beautiful objects of desire. Becoming fashionable accessories for society's elite. As they have become more desirable, diamonds represent a vain superficial beauty.
Grandiose is a reflection of this extravagant, becoming effectively more grand, more important, and more pompous.
Model: Julia Alcantara | Make up: Paula Murta | Hair: Gabriel Leitao
