Barcelona-based designer Blanca Miró and Larkspur & Hawk, the New York jewelry label founded by Emily Satloff, celebrated their new collaboration with a cocktail party on Wednesday evening, according to Vogue.
A Party at Thirty8East
The event was co-hosted by writer and tastemaker Tatiana Hambro Arader and held at Thirty8East, a private art gallery founded by Ashlee Harrison and located in an Upper East Side townhouse. The gallery is currently showing an exhibition titled Origins. Miró told Vogue she chose a minimal look to let the jewelry stand out, though she arrived in head-to-toe orange with vintage woven Prada pumps.
The collection includes rivière necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings in candy-like colors. It pairs Miró’s playful approach to color and pattern with Satloff’s interest in Georgian-era jewelry. Guests wore pieces from the line throughout the room, and attendees included Maria de la Orden, Batsheva Hay, Angelica Hicks, Charlotte Groeneveld, Becky Malinsky Shiah and Lilly Sisto.
Three Hosts, One Necklace
All three hosts wore the same colorful rivière necklace but styled it differently. Satloff combined hers with a vintage floral-jacquard skirt and a black high-necked top. Hambro Arader wore hers backwards, falling down the open back of a lavender Colleen Allen dress.
Stripes and Happy Accidents
The range features red, blue, green and yellow tones, along with a take on stripes, a signature of Miró’s fashion label La Veste, which she cofounded with de la Orden. Satloff said stripes are difficult to achieve in jewelry. The solution was to layer strands of differently colored stones so the stripe effect appears when they are worn together.
Some discoveries were unplanned. Satloff said she tried two colorways of earrings and paired them on a whim, resulting in a mismatched pair. Miró, who said she had never really been an earrings person, admitted she has not wanted to take the new designs off.
From Instagram to Collaboration
The designers’ friendship dates to 2018, when Satloff saw Miró wearing one of her necklaces during New York Fashion Week and contacted her on Instagram. They corresponded for years and met in person last year, discovering they were wearing nearly identical arrangements of rings. Their shared enthusiasm for antique jewelry, color and unconventional styling led to the collaboration.
Hambro Arader directed the evening’s creative look, displaying the jewels among frosted fruits, silver serving pieces and colorful textiles. She also moderated an informal conversation between the designers about their creative upbringings, their love of antiques and the historical techniques behind Larkspur & Hawk. Satloff, a former museum curator, described her fascination with the Georgian practice of placing thin sheets of metallic or colored foil beneath gemstones to boost color and luminosity, likening the foil to a candy wrapper under the stone.
Source: vogue.com
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