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Anne Poon has two sides to her jewelry.
There is a sassy modern side and a classy contemporary side. Yes, modern and contemporary mean two different things in my head.
Ganlin
Side one, is embodied in a collection called Ganlin, which means necklace in Cantonese. Poon says that Ganlin embodies contradiction, with heavy vs light chains, plastic vs vintage beads, etc.
I see it as a LA urban streetwear kind of feel, although most of the pieces are still very feminine.
She does an interesting thing with earrings. I am used to earrings matching perfectly. That is rare with Anne Poon. The Baroque earrings to the left show that. They’re matched, but uneven. ($80)
About the designer
Poon was born in Hong Kong and took to art pretty quickly. She originally wanted to be a fashion designer, but that dream was set aside when she took a architecture class at the University of Michigan.
She graduated in Architecture and continued designing all the while. She opened up her studio in San Francisco when she was 27.
Cactus love
This necklace is one of my favorite pieces. It’s also from the Ganlin collection. It’s called Golden Cactus ($130) and totally reminds me of driving through California when I first moved here. All those tiny towns in the desert are so fascinating and crazy.
This necklace seems to scream “I’m looking for something here, but I don’t know what it is.” I think, at least.
Lin
Lin is the the side of Poon’s jewelry. It is not more delicate and it is not so different that you feel a disconnection.
Poon says this about Lin: “The design of LIN is to provide a line of jewelry that is elegant, but playful, simple, yet sophisticated. The essence of this collection emerges from the subtle mix and match of semi-precious stones, swarovski crystals, glass beads and very fine chains.”
The Lovely Autumn earrings to the left are part of the Lin collection. I like how they are kind of opposites of each other, one with the beading at the top of the earring, the other at the bottom.
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