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Eye Love Locket
ring in 18-karat yellow
gold with a blue agate
cameo, sapphire and
diamonds, open.
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Phillia pendant in
18-karat yellow gold
with hand-carved
blue agate cameo.
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My Funny Valentine
ring in 18-karat yellow
gold with a cushion-cut
antique diamond.
which scholars assumed to
have been a currency for
brothels, as well as a way
of communicating specific
sexual requests between
people who might not speak
the same language.
As with all her projects, Vinkler-Petrovic
embraced the concept, elevating it into a deeply
emotional luxury item.
“Wouldn’t it be beautiful [if] every time we have
a love relationship that is meaningful to us, we were
gifted or we buy ourselves a token — a love token —
to represent that?” she muses.
Set in -karat yellow gold with a hand-carved
blue agate cameo — an element the designer used
in her previous series, the acclaimed Eye Love
— the pendants represent friendship, intuition,
playful affection, and romantic and familial love.
Each is engraved with a mantra the designer
thoughtfully considered.
Earlier in her career, a podcast on brain science
and the way babies see micro details sparked off
the concept of the inverted diamond setting, one
of her signature techniques. Once turned upside
down, “the diamond was no longer just a beautiful
gemstone, it became a structural, architectural
“I SEE YOUNG GIRLS THAT ARE TOLD
THEY’RE EITHER SMART OR THEY’RE
BEAUTIFUL.... THAT’S NOT FAIR, BECAUSE
WOMEN CAN BE SEXY, SENSUAL, BEAUTIFUL
BEINGS AND BE VERY INTELLIGENT”
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element. It changed the whole energy of the piece,”
she explains.
One thing that has been a constant in Vinkler-
Petrovic’s jewelry journey —which started in
when she worked as a buyer in her mother’s art
gallery — is her dedication to ethical sourcing. She
uses Canadian-mined diamonds, mercury-free
gold and recycled gemstones and materials. She’s
also been an outspoken activist, especially for
women’s and children’s rights, giving a percentage
of the proceeds from her jewelry sales to charities
supporting the most vulnerable.
Her forthcoming advertising campaign,
“Intelligence — The New Sexy,” aims to bolster
women’s confidence. “I see young women and young
girls that are told they’re either smart or they’re
beautiful women, and they fall into those roles,” she
says. “That’s not fair, because women can be sexy,
sensual, beautiful beings and be very intelligent.
They can embrace the totality of themselves.”
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