British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori – whose his first solo show at London’s Design Museum, ‘Yinka Ilori: Parables of Happiness’, opened earlier this yr – has designed the trophies for The Style Award 2022, going down on Monday 5 December 2022 on the Royal Albert Corridor.
The trophies, made up of various lengths of glass rods, had been made in collaboration with environmentally pleasant jeweller Skydiamond and The Glass Foundry (every award was created on the Cotswolds glass studio in a collaboration organized by the British Style Council). Organised in a nine-by-nine configuration, the miniature statues stay trustworthy to Ilori’s vivid design work by placing color first.
‘I needed to inform a narrative about vogue – and the way highly effective it’s,’ says Ilori, the trophy designed to be symbolic of the collaborative nature of vogue, with every multi- speer representing the ‘many artistic roles throughout the vogue trade’. ‘The trophy represents the power and synergy between designers and celebrates a way of togetherness,’ he continues.
Yinka Ilori’s trophy for The Style Awards 2022 revealed
The collaboration with Skydiamond introduces a diamond to every of the awards. Based by entrepreneur and environmentalist Dale Vince, Skydiamond would not mine however generates diamonds – its diamonds are made sustainably from extra carbon drawn from the Earth’s ambiance and of their manufacturing use sustainable wind and photo voltaic power. This leads to carbon-negative diamonds, ‘mined from the sky to guard the Earth’. (See extra choices for man-made diamond jewelry.)
‘Skydiamonds are the rarest diamonds on the planet, making the trophies much more distinctive,’ says Vince.
The fruits of Yinka Ilori, Skydiamond and The Glass Foundry’s work will – as Ilori hopes – function ‘a celebration of the designers who acknowledge and honour their individualism and heritage’.
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