TORO OSBORNE FT. PATRICIA NICOLAS

nov. 27 2014 

As you all know, I accepted the opportunity to design jewellery for Toro Osborne (#toroicon) a while back, and the release has come at last! It has been a great honour to work with them team at Toro Osborne, and I can't believe that the day has finally come to exhibit my pieces! 

In collaborative creative processes I usually try to translate the image and message of the collaborator with my style. Toro Osborne on the other hand allowed me to design pieces that reflected how I, personally feel about the company. It was a nice change of pace, and a lot more difficult! 

Ultimately I created three pieces (in line with my regular designs) united with the Toro Osborne symbol. Communication in today's society has developed from face-to-face conversations. Listening, seeing and speaking has taken on a technical advance whereby we don't need to be physically or emotionally present to communicate.



 Developing communicative technology is exciting and ever so useful, nevertheless I think that sometimes we forget to stretch our sensory muscles. I made an ear, an eye and a mouth to symbolize communication, in it's original form. It's stable, and it's how I feel about Osborne. It signifies heritage and taking a step back from the fashionable busy-bee life.

The ear embodies the importance of listening, that sometimes gets lost in the modern, express speed. 21st century life. My second piece exhibits a mouth, indicating another form of communication, that perhaps hasn't been forgotten.



Chattering never ceases, there is an overload of nonsense. Thirdly, I created an eye displaying that we live behind screens. We go to Paris, concerts, for coffee, yet we remain behind screens. We fail to actually see it. For me Toro Osborne means heritage and stability, just like our original means of communication: ears, eyes, and mouth.

The event was held in Madrid, Calle Ortega y Gasset ; great wine, nice ambient and the best spanish ham by Cinco Jotas. A catwalk, an exhibition and  6 great designers, and all very well organized by Fly To The Moon communication agency.

We had so much fun!  It was a day to remember !




Thank you to all the press, specially to TVE and TELEMADRID for the nice mention :)

OSBORNE COLLABORATION

Hello Toro Osborne!
Goodbye Leo…

Patricia Nicolás Collaboration 2014 

The release of my collaboration with Toro Osborne is finally here. It's something I'm super excited about because it's a highly recognised Spanish icon in the world, but primarily because of what it means to me. To me, it is a symbol of the country I learnt to ride my bike and had my first heart break, even though I was just 11. I now understand, that my relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't real. Today however, it does not only represent childhood and heritage for me, but also rejuvenation. Toro Osborne has given me the opportunity to collaborate in making jewellery for their rejuvenation project. I have created a mouth, eye and ear all with the toro at the centre of each piece. This is to represent it's central placement in my society and developing as time goes on. It features the central senses focusing on the company in a natural, and beautiful process. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio and I grew apart, I will never grow apart from Toro Osborne.   


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El lanzamiento de mi colaboración con Toro de Osborne ya está aquí. Estoy muy contenta de colaborar con esta gran marca española  altamente reconocida en el mundo, y sobre todo por lo que significa para mí, la vuelta a mi casa ! Porque para mí Osborne es un símbolo del país donde he nacido, de mi hogar, de mi España, la ciudad donde me crié, y donde he aprendido a montar en bicicleta :)  y cuando llevas tanto tiempo fuera de tu país te acuerdas y le das mucho valor.  Pero en estos momentos Osborne no solo representa mi infancia sino la oportunidad que detenido de desarrollar otra vez mi faceta de diseñadora creando piezas de joyería para un desfile y para venta en sus tiendas. De esta forma Osborne quiere mostrar el arte de diseñadores españoles y   la vanguardia de una gran marca marcada por la tradición.
He creado dos collares, de boca y de ojos y unos pendientes, y todos con el toro en el centro de cada pieza. Esto lo hice para marcar el toro como centro en la sociedad española. El toro que lo ve todo, que lo escucha todo y que esta en boca de todos...

EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE EVENT: Toro Osborne is donating TWO TICKETS to the exclusive, private, launch party featuring Patricia Nicolas. To apply for these tickets, go to their facebook page, and in the comment section note down your name, and the name of your plus one.

SAVE THE DATE: MADRID, NOVEMBER 27, 2014. 

Vogue Spain Jewellery Awards 2014

Yesterday we went to the Palace of La Bolsa in Madrid to celebrate the Vogue Spain Jewellery Awards 2014. We had fun, we danced, and drunk champagne! I am so proud to be featured in Vogue.es at the event with my father. Such a nice evening!

I am wearing a jumpsuit from Topshop, boots Chanel, the fox fur scarf, a new collection of fur scarfs I designed that you can buy on the web and my necklace, from my collection "For our eyes only".

Flamingo Market Place Collaboration

WE ARE NOT COLLABORATING WITH FLAMINGOES

But with Flamingo Market Place! 

I met with Carla, from Flamingo Market Place about six months ago, and it started off great...There was chemistry, we laughed and we danced. 

The following months little egg idea were generated. We did not yet know what the product of the egg would be. A pancake? A duck? But we knew it was ours. The egg has now cracked, and out came Flamingo Brooches! 

               

We're both very proud, and we would like to share this collaboration with you on this beautiful day. 

Check it out on the website, it truly is one of a kind!

Treat Your Self

Treat Your Self

Because you're worth it, you foxy creature. 

My life philosophy is life is what you make it. This means treating yourself is key, it’s crucial. I don’t think you need a reason to treat yourself, do it on a good day, a bad day, but especially on a mediocre day. Mediocre days are so mediocre. 

Here are some tips for treats:

1)   A glass of wine, or a bottle.

2)   Get that starbucks drink you love that's gonna raise your cholesterol or clog your veins. Worth it.

3)   Nutella. Lots of nutella.

4)   Don’t do a spa session at home, you haven’t shaved in years, why start now? You’ll just eat the cucumbers. You’re going to make a mess.

5)   Wrap yourself in bubble wrap, and run into things.

6)   Buy bandages, you’re not invincible. Not even with bubble wrap.

7)   Online shopping, leave your regrets behind. You need that Muppets tea set, you need it.

Lists aside, I recently launched a new collection of arctic fox fur scarves! It’s a treat to wear it everyday, it’s soft like a baby’s butt and as colourful as pride. Stay tuned for upcoming stockists, and remember: 

Loosing you hurts

but losing my fox fur 

would be a tragedy!

Treat your self, my little gangstahs!

peace out. 

NEW MONTH, NEW START IT'S NOVEMBER!

Check out this new fun drawing I made! A new month calls for changes, it calls for more exercise, healthier eating, earlier bedtimes, and wiser choices. 

The story is always the same, complaining about exercising becomes a full time job, fits of rage are thrown due to hunger, and your wise choices leave you bored and unfulfilled. So you cheat your diet, exercise, and conscience. For some the cheating begins a few weeks in, but for normal people 4 hours is enough. But no one describes this pattern better than Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones, 

“The plans to lose weight and change personality kept me aloft for two days, only to collapse around my ears. I realize it was only a complicated form of

denial.” 

If you need to make yourself feel better, Patricia's new collection Roarr might cheer you up. We wish you the best of luck for November's endeavours, whatever happens we're here to cheer you on!

PRESS FEATURE IN: HOLA MODA

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS,

FASHION BENEFITS!

The photo above presents my good friend Eugenia Silva (left) and the lovely Elsa Pataki (right), wearing the Multichain Punk Necklace from the God Save the Queen collection. It's the time of year when thanksgiving is just around the corner. I am thankful for so many things, for my good friends, my  work and my wonderful readers! It's an overload of benefits... :)

Get out there and spread the love! 

(I feel like this necklace should maybe, be called the thankful necklace maybe! )  

I'm also very thankful for Eugenia in particular because my products are now sold through her at EUSTYLE, a very cool online multi-brand store if you like fabulous products!  

  
PRESS FEATURE IN: YO DONA 

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY!

FOR THOSE WITH AN EYE FOR FASHION!

The latest collection For Your Eyes Only was featured in the october Yo Dona issue, and we are ever so pleased! Eyes is a frequently visited fashion must-have this season, included in the KENZO and Patricia Nicolas collections. Basically, you really cannot go wrong with a pair of extra eyes this season! 

Keep an eye out for these eyes.

PRESS FEATURE 

IN

CUORE ESTILO

               

HOT GODS!

Patricia Nicolas's Hot Doggie Dog was featured in Cuore Estilo! 

The greatest feat this year has without a doubt, been the entry of high end food accessories, and we have Moschino to thank for that! I don't know about you, but I for one cannot imagine a world without the uplifting food fashion! Also, remember that this hot god also comes in brooch form.

The best thing since sliced bread.