Sunday, May 8, 2011

Karita, our own celebrity designer


To Karita´s sketchbook is glued a piece of kitchen towel – 
it happened to be the only paper available when the inspiration struck. 

Well, there are celebrity designers and celebrities who just tell what they like and then the designers redesign their ideas. You did not really believe that Madonna designed her H&M collection? Even Kate Moss bag collection for Longchamp, I have been told, has better versions of her own vintage bags.
OK, I think that they don´t even pretend to be designers, they just sell their selling power. 
But now we have in Finland a celebrity designer of our own - Karita Tykkä, fashion model and Miss Finland 1997, known for her beauty and self-discipline, has designed her first jewellery pieces for the Finnish manufacturer Oy Tillander Ab.
The nicest thing in her first collection is the mother-child pendant Luca, named after her baby son. It consists of two intertwined golden flat rings you cannot separate, a symbol of the bond of maternity.
When Karita tells about her ideas, willingness to learn more and visits to the Tillander workshops her eyes are sparkling like – yes, diamonds. There is certainly more to come.

To find out more about the jewellery collections hand-made in Finland look at



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