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Angelina Jolie is a one-dress woman!

Nagicia in Amsterdam

@ Kookai Amsterdam via Lady Indira .

Sirsak Collection as seen in I-Magazine #1

The beautiful New Nagicia Sirsak Collection in I-Magazine #1


styling:  M. Khanh

 

Here's to a GOLDen New Year

GLOWING BEAUTY, ENDURING VALUE – THE GOLDEN TOUCH

Gold.

Since the beginning of recorded time gold has been a symbol of wealth and a store of value, adorning the bodies and ensuring the positions of the powerful. The cause of conflict and adventure, civilizations have been built and destroyed in it’s pursuit and safe-keeping. The Latin name for gold, aurum (origin of the elemental symbol au) means “shining dawn”, and to appreciate the luster of gold is indeed a little like soaking in the rays of a rising sun.

A single gram of pure gold’s (24k) rich colour and luster can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, and this extraordinary malleability is the reason for blending it with other base metals, forming alloys for use in jewelry. By improving gold’s hardness the colour is altered, and gold becomes more versatile and enduring in it’s beauty – for example, when combined with copper the warm glow of rose gold is created.

The belief that something so rare and beautiful cannot be anything but healthy has prevailed from medieval royalty to modern science, and this most malleable and ductile of all the pure metals is frequently used in medical science and technology.



“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time”.

Wear your timeless Nagicia gold with an attitude of presence, marking your value, and your value for the gift of each moment.

COPPER – ANCIENT AND ESSENTIAL

With a history of use that is at least 10,000 years old, copper, with it’s distinctive reddish orange hues, was known to some of the of the oldest civilizations on record. Pure copper lumps were used as currency by the Romans, valued at first for their weight alone, until Julius Caeser introduced shape and stamp as significant. It’s lustrous beauty produced ancient mirrors, and by reflecting beauty became associated with the goddesses of love from both Greek and Roman cultures, Aphrodite and Venus.

Copper is one of the most important components of silver and gold alloys, improving strength and hardness without dulling their shine. In purer form, copper eventually corrodes to acquire the characteristic green patina we see in aged architecture and statuary.

Antibacterial and germicidal, copper has long been used in medical science, perhaps beginning with the Egyptians as long ago as 2400BC. They employed copper as jars to purify water for drinking and sterilizing wounds, curing headaches, healing burns and relieving itching. The holistic medical science of India, Ayurveda, used this highly malleable metal to form surgical instruments and other medical equipment as long ago as 1000BC and Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician, is known to have used copper solutions to dress leg wounds.

The copper ion is an essential trace nutrient to all higher plant and animal life. In all animals it is found in liver, muscle and bone tissue.

Ebony and copper ring from the Nagicia 'Namu' Collection

Silver

A bolt of lightning… The glowing orb we call the moon… Light reflecting on the surface of water.

Silver.

The white, metallic luster of silver is brilliant. Matching extremely high optical reflectivity with total receptivity to polishing, the dazzling shine of silver has been the choice of jewelry makers and jewelry wearers for centuries.

Two and a half thousand years ago, Socrates, the Classical Greek Philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western Philosophy, and often named the “father of medicine” asserted that that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties. Before this, the Phoenicians are said to have stored water, wine, and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling. Naturally aseptic, evidence of silver and/or silver-alloy surgical and medical instruments has been found in early Roman and Egyptian civilizations. Contemporary use of silver medically includes wound dressings containing silver, increasing in importance due to the increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Nagicia uses highest quality sterling silver, the industry standard, an alloy containing a small percentage of copper to increase it’s durability. Anyone can wear silver, and for many it is the preferred precious metal.

Kupu Kupu ~ Butterfly

Like delicate flowers in flight, Nagicia’s Kupu Kupu Collection skillfully captures the beauty of the butterfly in brass, silver and gemstones.

Beginning it’s life as an earth-bound caterpillar, this creature works diligently during it’s brief life to build a protective covering , a place to retreat and undergo remarkable change. The time spent inside the chrysalis is when the beauty of both colour and form are forged. The subsequent struggle to emerge from this self-imposed captivity builds the tremendous strength required for flight. This unique life cycle has come to stand as a symbol for personal transformation and emotional maturity, and the freedom they bring.

Kupu- kupu means butterfly in Indonesian, and Nagicia has forged this collection in shimmering brass and silver, adorning cut out wing designs with sparkling cubic zirconia and gemstones.