Journalist and accessory designer Samuel Gassmann already appeared in a previous post on this site. He deserves another mention today since he recently launched at Tranoï fair his new collection. The latter features once again some lovely pieces all made by hand.
You can check out the new catalogue here: by leafing through it you will discover that, apart from the classics such as his “archetypes”, the new collection includes cute mother-of-pearl cufflinks the designer called “Ready-To-Dye” with colourful silver links (available in lovely bright shades).
But there are also some interesting news for female fans: cufflinks for women. Obviously nobody stops women from wearing all the classic Gassmann cufflinks, but the designer recently did a special pair of cufflinks for me in grey mother-of-pearl engraving on their surface a portrait of a man.
The cufflinks are a mix between the new women archetype and the portrait of Samuel that the designer did for a previous collection. The main idea was to recreate a modern cameo, a pretty interesting point as you could even have the portrait of your loved one on the cufflinks (or the portrait of a special icon of yours). Though the “cameo” is tiny, the profile looks pretty accurate and I'm sure that many women would love wearing such a delicate and subtle portrait of a man on their wrists.
How to wear them? Gassmann suggested me to take a shirt that I like, bring it to my tailor and ask him to move out the button and make a buttonhole in its place. While I'll definitely do that, for the time being the cufflinks are being used as a decorative button for my collection of vintage menswear collars. If you're on the lookout for me I'm the one with the “male cameo” cufflinks/buttons (with many thanks to Gassmann for creating them for me!).
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wow!! This is interesting that cufflinks are now for women too.This would surely add up to the beauty of women.
Posted by: cufflinks | July 19, 2012 at 09:09 AM
Finally a decent selection of cufflinks for women! After you've seen our women's cufflinks, you'll never have to shop anywhere else.
Posted by: women's lifestyle | August 17, 2012 at 01:26 AM