February 29, 2024 |
Celebrating 10 years of creating unique modern heirlooms, cult jewellery brand Alighieri is prepped and primed to grace our necks, wrists, and fingers once again with its ethereal AW24 collection.
Entitled, Votive Offerings, the collection – which made its debut early today – is based around the ritualistic objects used by spiritual practitioners of ancient and modern civilisations. (How fitting for a company inspired by the spirits of Dante’s Divine Comedy).
Rosh Mahtani, the London-based brand’s founder and designer, uses this to reflect on the aftermath of a life-altering loss she experienced last year and in turn, turns her grief into a collection of luxe objects centred around new beginnings. “This collection, for me, is an offering to the future. Votive Offerings are all about hope and rebirth,” she writes in a release.
Everything the Alighieri brand puts its stamp on is intentional – every piece, every campaign, every title draws from Mahtani’s personal interests which are rooted in art and literature. As an Italian and French literature graduate of Oxford University, there is bound to be a few references that sneak into her work – hence the use of a 16th century latin word “votive”, which denotes an object offered in fulfilment of a vow.
Mahtani herself photographed the campaign which is set in a rural red-rock desert landscape with warm rays of sunshine highlighting her golden medallions and arrowhead-like pendants.
Within Votive Offerings, there are barrettes with fish skeleton structures that can be used as hair pins or clothing clips. Thick bangles with metal beads, chunky bone shaped rings and almost spoon-like inspired pedants that dangle from leather cords. A pendent, which she calls the ‘Skeleton of The Self’, resembles the Inuit Inukshuk and appears on a necklace, hanging from a silver chain. Each object is available is either 100 per cent recycled icy sterling silver or luxurious gold.
Each votive piece is evocative of a collision between the future and the ancient, and forged from a hand-carved wax mould by Mahtani herself. From her hand to your heart, Alighieri’s new talismans are for healing.
Photography courtesy of Alighieri.
