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• 09/21/2009

  Iberjoya & Bisutex exude highlight jewellery’s key looks for autumn

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    Luxenter stand at Iberjoya

• FACT FILE

  Spanish exhibitors: 213 (Iberjoya), 370 (Bisutex)

  Net surface area: 15.000 (Iberjoya), 9.621 (Bisutex)

  Location: Feria de Madrid

   

  CONTACT

  Feria de Madrid (IFEMA)

  28042 Madrid
  Tel.: +34 91 772 30 00
  iberjoya@ifema.es

   

  http://www.ifema.es

   

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  February 4th-8th, 2010

With autumn around the corner, the 43rd annual Iberjoya trade fair was an excellent showcase for new season’s jewellery trends. A total of 500 brands, among them 213 Spanish, showed collections at the Madrid event, held September 9 to 13, 2009, proving that catwalk trends are increasingly influencing jewellery and accessory design.

Luxenter is without doubt a trendsetting brand, with one of the most popular stands at Iberjoya. Its new collection of charms, with colourful semi-precious stones, was displayed on miniature dressing tables. Seen in the shape of bags or shoes, charms are the hottest new addition to the brand's autumn/winter 2009/10 campaign, as well as jasper and grey quartz bracelets and irresistible pieces in blue aventurine that seem to reflect a starry night.

The highlight of Dámaso Martínez for the new season is the Etruria collection, inspired by Etruscan bangles. These solid pieces in rose and yellow gold combine with corals and amethysts. Black diamonds feature heavily in the collection, creating a noteworthy contrast against rose gold.

Noah Barcelona is another of the brands that have used the hypnotic black diamond in its Lia Collection. The exotic dominates its Avant Garde Collection, the fruit of its collaboration with a Japonese kimono designer, created to harmonise with the garments. It comprises pieces in white and rose gold with ruthenium combined with white and black diamonds, smoky quartz and white agate.

A wedding ring specialist, Argyor had one of the largest stands of the show. There, alongside the classic christening and confirmation bracelets, wedding coins, and scapulars, are modern creations in iron, titanium, carbon fibre and cubic zirconium from its Siamo Shangay brand.

Baby jewellery also took a prominent place in the Bernat Rubí collection. Its Baby Line, with tiny pearl and diamond earrings, link bracelets and identity tags, embodied classicism with its delicate lines and luminosity.

Plata Pura works with its namesake metal, giving a matte finish enhanced with notes of resin and Murano crystal. The Cordoba brand takes inspiration from the island of Ibiza for its bohemian Hola collection, in which the sea takes centre stage.

Candela Hermanos presented the Francis Montesinos jewellery collection, in silver,with arabesques representative of the Valencian designer's celebrated graphics. Antonio Soria went for geometric pieces that combine white gold with intensely coloured gem tones.

Emblematic jewels

In its autumn/winter 2009/2010 collection, Elisenda Santacreu plays with antique silver, gold and stones, and even with rubber in the most outstanding pieces. The Vik collection, inspired by Viking boats, is a celebration of organic shapes, with intricately structured shapes and plenty of movement.

Belén Bajo traced mosaics onto her jewellery pieces. The results are pendants, rings, bangles and, for the first time, onyx and white agate cufflinks. Metallic agate crystals dazzle, and volcanic rock mixes with onyx in strikingly textured necklaces. For once, Belén Bajo has abandoned the vivid colour palette used in previous collections, to instead present a collection defined by black and the sparkle of crystals.

Watches for children and adults

For autumn/winter 2009/10, Paul Versan's Extremely Sexy Watches collection emanates a vibe of retro and updated classic, both in its shapes and the use of iron with leather, rubber and golden copper. Its younger, more accessible line comprises digital designs in vitamin hues (pink, blue, mauve) for a young audience. Relojes Marea has designs just for them as well in the Fun-tastic Friends collection, led by Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

The central space at Iberjoya was taken up by Relojes Caramelo and its Toro Watch, which is the product of a collaboration between the Spanish brand and the Ayserco group. With the Osborne bull, the iconic symbol of the Spanish landscape, as a standard, watch and timepiece faces bear the bull silhouette.

Bisutex, the latest accessories

Complementary to Iberjoya, Ifema celebrated the Bisutex trade fair, dedicated to accessories. A total of 370 Spanish brands presented their collections in the space presided over by veteran designer Elio Berhanyer, in which exclusive occasionwear designs were accompanied by ostentatious pieces, many inspired by Granada's La Alhambra.

Uno de 50 presented its new Obsesión line, composed of necklaces, chokers, bracelets and rings handcrafted in its characteristic assortment of metals. Teardrop colourful resins brought a refreshing note in intense red, midnight blue, olive green and mauve. Some pieces included Swarovski crystals, applied reversely, giving a complexity of composition and a unique result.

Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada Joyas is faithful to the designer's philosophy to which it owes its name, hence its long necklaces and bracelets are set in heart, cloud and round settings.

Maria Ignacia Iturmendi, creative director at Iturmendi y Quirós, showed her new Pocoyó, El Caballo and Flamenco collections. The Pocoyó collection combines leather with rich colours, empowering the emotional value of the pieces. For El Caballo she offered bib-style necklaces in bejewelled silver and pearls, evoking an ethnic feel, as well as a new haute silverware collection with striking chains in golden combinations, mixed with fabrics and gems. Finally, her creations for Flamenco are faithful to the ethnic spirit of the Spanish brand, with the innovative feature of silken cords knotted to silver, with citrine and amethyst.

Gastronomy also arrived at Bisutex, thanks to Croxé, whose collection Gastronomic includes jewellery inspired by culinary delicacies from such diverse cultures as the Japanese, with earrings in the shape of sushi rolls, and the Spanish, with necklaces that capture the colour of Spanish ratatouille and beads that take the form of delicious gazpacho tomatoes. In the autumn/winter collection, the brand is expanding its "culinary" line, with pieces taken from desserts and sweets.

Jorge Revilla remains faithful to organic forms with rhodium necklaces and pendants with delicate veins evocative of leaves. The brand bathes in gold (rose or yellow) its most refined line of necklaces in the form of interlinked half-moons.

Elena Cáncer finds inspiration for her new collection in the Middle Ages and industrial design, with robust, geometric pieces, metal string and link necklaces and bangles reminiscent of embossed armour. The absence of colour dominates her collection.

Lola Casademunt, with a new collection dominated by blue, fuchsia; and Yokana, with long strings of beads in the most passionate colours, were also present at the latest Bisutex show.