Isabeli Fontana turned heads on the Cannes red carpet in magnificent brooches by Elsa Jin
That incredible brooches adorning Isabeli Fontana's look are by Elsa Jin, a jewelry artist from China who specializes in this type of showstopping one-of-a-kind design. Fontana is wearing "Mozi and Beauty" brooches from the collection "In Search of China" is a designer's search, reflection and display of Chinese culture. "Mozi and Beauty" is a joint display of two works, and ELSA JIN wants to express an old and unsolvable topic "Universal Love and Beauty".
Elsa Jin began to design a collection named "In Search of Chinese Culture" in 2021. The main stones of Bamboo Slips displayed at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2022, Night Dance showed at Cannes Film Festival in 2023, and Mozi and Beauty exhibited at Cannes Film Festival this time are all organic jewels. ELSA JIN said that Chinese culture likes to talk about this life and past lives, therefore she chose pearls and Melo pearls with past lives.
The brooch "Mozi" is inspired by the ink used in traditional Chinese calligraphy. Unconstrained painters and calligraphers in China will spill the ink on the paper and then paint a picture following the natural flow of ink and mind. This work resembles the shape of thick ink splashing in the air, free and full of tension. The black pearl symbolizes ink and the soul of artists.
It was named Mozi because Mozi was a great philosopher in ancient China. His philosophy emphasized universal love, peace and equality, with quite modern philosophical spirit.
"Mozi" brooch:
Main stone: Tahiti peacock green black pearl 34.99 carats (diameter: 17 mm) /1P Auxiliary stones: black diamond 221.07 carats /5169P, gray diamond 7.07 carats /165P, emerald 1.8 carats/44P; Total weight: 113.51g
The brooch "Beauty" inspired by a beautiful ancient story from China called "mutual help in humble circumstances". Two fish that were caught ashore spit bubbles at each other to maintain each other's lives, which is also a sad love story.
Two smart fish (blue sapphire and pink sapphire) are in a mouth-to-mouth position, and Melo pearls are the bubbles that they spit out to maintain each other's lives. Beauty is a rich display of life, love and femininity.
Main stone: Melo pearl 63.864 carats /1P Auxiliary stones: sapphire 85.09 carats /407P, pink sapphire 103.76 carats /336P, white diamond+yellow diamond 77.39 carats/654p; Total weight: 89.61g
ELSA JIN's artist identity serves as the foundation for her profession as a jewelry designer. She levels up her jewelry design to the artists' ideology of recording the times. The collection "Life" records the Covid times; the collection "Fireworks" records the cruelty of war: a jewelry designer used gemstones and metals to show a cognition and thought facing the times: "fireworks of joy go up, fireworks of death go down".