Photo, Sanna Svedestedt 2011

 Sanna Svedestedt
Bangle: Fashionista 2011
Synthetic fibers, laquer
13x13x5 cm
in private collection

Sanna Svedestedt
Bangle: Fashionista wrap around 2011
Synthetic fibers, laquer
10x10x5 cm

Sanna Svedestedt
Rings: Fashionista 2011
Synthetic fibers, laquer
3x3x1.5 cm

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ABOUT THE FASHIONISTA SERIES:
These pins are the well preserved hair pins of my great great grandmother.  They are made by human hair and were the items that inspired me to start this project.

Making jewellery from human hair is an old Swedish crafts tradition, which now a days have very few practitioners. During the hard times in the Nineteenth century this type of craft was flourishing as young Swedish women went on business trips through Europe, to make and sell hair jewellery. Their work played an important role in helping their home villages out of the wide spread poverty. The hair jewellery is now out of fashion, but the spirit of the entrepreneurs is very much alive. Today “The blonds” and other young females are conquering internet with their blogs and entrepreneurship. I find it very inspiring.

Fashionista was first exhibited during the exhibition A Pieceful Swedish Smörgåsbord, Munich Schmuck Week 2011