Mystery Jewellery Designers of 1968
This glorious image was captured by David Stanford for FASHION magazine, August 1968. The editorial features three young designers, all students of the Jewellery School of the Royal College of Art. As you will read below, David Stanford was also a student of said college, so perhaps these ‘bright young things’ were already acquainted before this article was published? Thus far, I’ve been unable to find any information on the young designers, Guy Watson, Sue Fry and Jackie Binns. If you know anything about them, or perhaps have a piece of jewellery they designed, please get in touch via my contact page. I’d love to know what happened. Thank you!
Photograph by David Stanford for 'Fashion', August 1968
David Stanford studied Painting and History of Art at Walthamstow School of Art in the 1960s, alongside such names as Ian Dury, Peter Greenaway and Vivian Stanshall. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he began his own photographic studio. For the next 25 years he photographed a wide range of high-profile advertising campaigns and fashion spreads for magazines in London and Paris. He specialised in fashion and beauty but also photographed a number of famous bands for album sleeves and went on to direct TV commercials and film documentaries. Visit his website and take a look at his broad range of work.
Photograph by David Stanford for 'Fashion' magazine, August 1968
“This display of flash and filigree was never meant to lie in a bank vault solemnly embedded in black velvet. Designed by Guy Watson, Sue Fry and Jackie Binns, these jewels catch fire, flicker and blaze with light as their wearer moves. The infinite precision of their assembly makes them more than mere baubles. Thousands of tiny silver wires are soldered on to silver mesh to make a necklace that tosses its delicate fronds like some make-believe species of sea-plant. Invisible batteries are somehow contrived to fit inside shiny Perspex earrings and rings to make them toss about like jack o’lanterns. They light up in motion, switch off when you take them off. The young designers have used silver-gilt tubes studded with beads, square Perspex discs and flame-shaped globules of silver and glass to make jewellery that excites the senses and stimulates the imagination. Since few of us will have the patience to take pot-luck with heirlooms, it’s good to know that most of the jewellery shown her will shortly be going into production.”
Jewellery designs of 1968.
This issue of ‘FASHION’ was edited by Alisa Garland. Published by Fleetway, August 1968.
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