Lydia Jewels Blog

Yesterday I was stoked to find out that Polkadot Bride had written a lovely article about Lydia Jewels new Bridal jewellery. See it here

It is very fitting since I was at Sun Studios shooting the new collection and the Bridal range look books.

The new collection is called Sunset Boulevard and is full of oranges, pinks, corals, turquoises and blacks. I am really excited about this collection and hope you all will be too. I have spent this afternoon editing the final choices with Andrew and am absolutely thrilled with our results.

The Bridal collection is made using Swarovski crystals, faux pearls and vintage treasures.

Below are some pics of us hard at work and some sneak peaks into the two collections. The team was:

Photographer: Andrew Goldie www.andrewgoldie.com

Stylist and Jewellery: Lydia-Jane Saunders www.lydiajewels.com and www.lydiajanesaunders.com

Make Up and Hair: Rachel Montgomery www.rachelmontgomery.com

Models: Brooke and Jesinta at Scene

Photography and Styling Assistant: Nicole Willing

Make up assistant: Sam Edwards

All clothing chosen at Sweaty Betty PR

Designers include: Rachel Gilbert, Mooks, None The Richer, Melinda and Narina, VandM and This is Genevieve

My assistant, Nicole, painting the wall and studio set up

Rachel and Sam working on Brooke

Brooke trying to keep warm shooting in a bikini in a cold studio and Sam painting Jesinta’s nails

Brooke’s shots and Nicole cutting through the cardboard to create the look of blinds reflecting the light for the Bridal collection shoot.

Jesinta looking gorgeous and a sneak peak at the jewellery pieces

Me building our set and Andrew and Jesinta making us laugh

Jesinta looking stunning

I am on a roll this week. It has been a while since I have been totally stoked with a shoot. But last Thursday I shot a story that I love love love and can’t wait to see the results. Helping, was the fact that I love the team. Make up artist and hair extraordinaire Rachel Montgomery, Photographer Rory Fink, my fabulous assistant Nicole and amazing model, Sam at Chic.  I was really happy with my styling and adored the hair Rachel did. The look was black widow meets Parisien chic. Below are a few behind the scenes shots.

Today I am at Sun Studios shooting another editorial with another great team. Photographer Michael Cook, Hair and Make up by the fabulous Mandi Levanah and two gorgeous models from Viviens. First half of the day is a black clothing story with sharp bursts of colour in jewellery and shoes. I made all the jewellery using semi-precious stones such as coral, turquoise, rosequartz and amazonite. Poor model, they are so incredibly heavy. This afternoon we are shooting vintage swimming caps that I have been collecting mainly in London for years. some sneaky snaps below.

Eeek. I have spent many years as a Fashion Stylist behind the camera. And that is where I would like to stay. But today I had some shots taken by a photographer friend, Rory Fink and it was actually alot harder than I have ever given models credit for.  I had been asked by StylePalace.com to provide a photo of me for when they launch ‘Lydia Jewels’ on their site. So I thought why not. My fabulous make up artist friend Rachel Montgomery (remember this name, she is going to be huge) offered to make me up and off we went. Now if I could employ her to do my make up every day I would – this bit I loved.

A few weeks ago we shot the Lydia Jewels lookbook. A fun day was had by all (hopefully) and I am really pleased with the shots which you can see below.

Massive THANK YOU to a wonderful team.

Photographer: Kris Baum
MUA & Hair: Melanie Burnicle (Look Production)
Models: Elly Hatful (Chadwicks) and Hayley Bentley (Viviens)
Photographer’s Assistant: Kirsten Cox
MUA assistant: Erika De Jesus