It is the technicality of a piece of jewellery that appeals to fashion designer Sandra Choi. “I see myself a bit like an engineer. I like form and things that work back to the body,” she says. “I am attracted to a great piece of engineering even in jewellery form.”
Ms Choi, creative director of Jimmy Choo, the luxury accessories brand, has diverse tastes but favours jewellery with a “hard and soft contrast”. Many of her pieces are “slightly structured” but with “a twist of femininity, of softness or glamour”.
She often finds pieces on her travels and some have influenced her shoe designs. She regards jewellery as something to accessorise a person to give them “more light, more intrigue, more story”. “I totally translate that [into my work] because my shoes are characters and they need highlights and a little bit of accessorising,” says Ms Choi, 47.