How to wear jewelry ?

Among all the accessories that dress an outfit, jewelry is definitely the most complex. Inhabited with their own symbolism, these ornaments are also the subject of codification throughout the history of human cultures. In every era, for every social environment and every occasion, rules surrounded the wearing of these very particular adornments. However, for years, the codification of the wearing of jewelry has been losing ground in the West.

Faced with this aesthetic freedom, how to wear your jewelry ? The Label AÉ invites you into its creative and iconoclastic universe.

The jewel, an accessory for everyone

Is there a more timeless story than that of the jewel ? As soon as humans began to dress, they accompanied their outfits with adornments. These ornaments sometimes served a religious purpose : to honor the deities in a ceremony, one or more persons invested with special importance during the rite donned the traditional dress, accompanied by jewelry.
These ornaments also served a purpose of seduction : men and women adopted specific decorations in an attempt to seduce the opposite sex, or to signal its disposition to seduction.

This thousand-year-old history, as masculine as feminine, as religious as secular, has evolved at the same time as civilizations. In some of them, the jewel has been used to distinguish the rich from the poor. Ornamentation took on a market value and gold and silver, currencies par excellence, became the favorite materials for these human adornments.
But many other materials have over the ages become supports for these beauty enhancers : metals – bronze, cobalt or steel – but also precious stones – diamonds, rubies, sapphires, etc. – and semi-precious – quartz, topaz, amber – or even wood.

The jewel is also available in modern and worked materials such as plastic, which allows beautiful original creations, or in flexible materials such as fabric or leather.

The jewel freed from aesthetic rules

In human history, the jewel obeyed rules specific to human cultures. These rules have changed over time, but the wearing of jewelry has always seemed to be governed by a code. This has gradually become unspoken in Western modernity, but it still seems to go without saying.

Classic, small, fine and discreet jewelry is worn during the day, at work or in everyday life. As for jewelry that is more visible, colorful and original, it is generally reserved for parties, or even special events. This codification of the jewel seems to give it a secondary role of simply accompanying an outfit.

However, the jewel has its own personality : on its own it can transform an outfit, give it all its sparkle or, on the contrary, its sobriety. Jewelry is never neutral : it is the element that allows a clothing ensemble to fully express itself.
The codes have changed : over, the restrictive rules on these special accessories ! They are no longer the victims of a cultural convention, they are now free to express the creativity of the person who wears them.

Costume jewelry is welcome during the day – and even at work – to dress up a classic ensemble. A well chosen piece, original, but aesthetic and perfectly combined with its outfit energizes it and immediately gives an assertive style to the person who wears it, while respecting a professional and serious image.
Conversely, fine pieces are also out at night : nocturnal events are no longer reserved for pieces with a strong character ! Worn in accumulation, discreet rings, fine bracelets or delicate necklaces inevitably give an outfit a certain charm.

Choose your jewelry with taste

The barriers that separate day jewelry and night jewelry are breaking down more and more. Just as the traditions associated with wearing these adornments are disappearing – in modern Western societies. The Label AÉ values jewelry designers, these small works of art, and the label’s jewelers are above all artisans, lovers of their art.

At Mayrena Paris, the jewel brings its own shape to the wrist, finger, neck: it redraws its line, it is it who visually orders the appearance of the wearer. At the confluence of aesthetic accessory and architectural statement, it takes you into a universe “without front or back”, where everything is fluid and nothing is what it seems.

bague double réversible Audacieuse I vermeil I Vue en détail I Mayrena I Label AÉ Paris — Reversible double ring – L’Audacieuse vermeil

This original charm is reminiscent of that of Imminent Fantasma, where the technique of creating these unisex jewels also combines two genres: the ancestral know-how – 6000 years old – of lost wax casting, and that of could not be more modern 3D printing.
The designer Pauline Bernard thus reminds us where the works that we carry against us come from, and especially what wonders still need to be developed in terms of creation.

Boucle d'oreille Volt — Pair of double option earrings – Volt

The discreet 9Pensées embellishments find their place directly in our evening wardrobe: these sensual creations dress a long neckline, warm the bare skin of a wrist and discreetly highlight the finesse of an ear.
Almost unique, each piece is cut with controlled irregularities to give it an unparalleled style – which extends, by extension, to the wearer of these pieces that are both raw and subtle.

Collier long sans fermoir Lasso Shango I Argent I 9Pensées I Vue de face I Label AÉ paris — Long silver no clasp necklace – Lasso Shango

Freed from the rules, worn with taste, the jewel is very different: an unbalanced necklace or a pair of earrings where the left does not respond to the right. This asymmetry destabilizes the eye, but it does not unbalance the style: everyone is free to create their own harmony, to make their aesthetic sing in the eyes of all.