REGENERATIVE PIONEERS
With a desire to safeguard and restore the health of soil by adopting a low-intervention, nature-leaning approach, the team behind Worthy Earth design and nurture market gardens across the UK.
Read more in Konfekt's Horticulture Special – link in bio.
Photographer and Writer: Louise Long
TWO'S COMPANY
Couple Kanako and Naoki Hachiman met while working in sales and management for a fashion firm in Osaka. The former spent more than 10 years at the company, while the latter, who had trained in furniture making and studied interior design, was there for two decades. Fashion came naturally to Kanako. “I didn’t think of it as a career because it didn’t feel like work,” she says. After the birth of the Hachimans’ daughter and Kanako’s return from maternity leave, she decided that it was time for a change. In 2017 a friend introduced them to a space that would become the first location of Port, a boutique combining Kanako’s taste for new and vintage clothing with Naoki’s deep love of second-hand furniture.
Photographer: Fuminari Yoshitsugu
Writer: @zosuen
LASTING IMPRESSION
As Roksanda Ilinčić (@roksandailincic ) sails past two decades at the helm of her eponymous brand, the designer takes a moment to reflect on the journey that led her to her signature sense of style – and the brutalist architecture that influenced her choices.
Photographer: @phildunlopstudio
Writer: @rimmsay
BACK TO THE EARTH
The work of architect Nzinga Biegueng Mboup (@nzingabm ) co-lead of Senegalese practice Worofila, centres on building techniques involving natural materials. We join her in Dakar to find out how her grounded approach informs her life beyond her craft.
More in the Spring issue of Konfekt.
Photographer: @paul.lehr
Writer: @rimmsay
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NATURAL TOUCH
The fluid, irregular shapes found in nature have long provided inspiration for jewellery. These pieces are more about sculptural intent than bohemian flourish. Lily Gabriella’s quietly authoritative Spira ring consists of a single curve in white-gold coils. It has a sense of undulating movement without beginning or end. With its diamond set east-west, Dinakamal’s torque collar in beige brushed gold is similarly assured; its colour and form hint at the warmth of skin and the intimacy of something shaped by hand rather than machine. Dinakamal’s grey pearl-topped ring introduces a note of mystery with the way that it tapers to negative space, while Emily Nixon’s textured silver-and-gold necklace, made up of irregular circles, feels almost archaeological – like fragments gathered and persuaded into harmony. Completing our composition, Georg Jensen’s undulating, articulated semicircles form a bracelet that seems fluid, responsive and alive.
Together, these pieces speak to a desire for jewellery that breathes and is shaped by instinct.
Photographer: @alicefisherphoto
Writer: @brendatuohy
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GOOD TO GLOW
Molecular biologist Dr Vanessa Craig co-created @formetta out of clinical curiosity. “A largely broken supplement industry has made it hard to know what actually moves the needle,” says Craig. “I’m obsessed with what truly works.” The Beauty Collagen Formulation is a powder to be diluted and drunk every day, pairing collagen peptide with keratin to bolster skin elasticity. Alongside it comes The Ultimate Anti-Ageing Formulation, a capsule to support cellular renewal.
Get more glowing inspiration in the beauty pages of Konfekt's Spring Issue.
Photographer: @trishaward
Writer: @brendatuohy
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THE SPACE BETWEEN
Springtime calls for rebirth and a wardrobe that embraces both the season’s changing colour's and gentle light. We present pieces that will help you make the most of this period of joyous transition – while on a stroll through Barcelona’s Gaudí-designed treasures.
View all the pieces in the Spring issue of Konfekt – link in bio.
Photographer: @nachoalegre
Stylist: @marcela.palek
Local producer: @tambucio
Model: @rubanoid_
Hair & make-up: @jamal.musa_
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EMERALD ESCAPE
Costa Smeralda, on Sardinia’s northeastern shore, has become a fêted destination for its granite cliffs and pale sandy coves, surrounded by wild Mediterranean maquis. It’s also a testament to a radical architectural project that was designed to gracefully integrate with the landscape.
Photographer: @andreapugiottolias
Writer: @laurarysman
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A LIFE IN MOTION
Folk musician Annahstasia is at ease hopping from one city to the next and finding inspiration wherever she goes – a trait that’s reflected in her genre-crossing work.
Head to the link in our bio to read the full story.
Photographer: @aleksey.kondratyev
Writer: @lucri_m
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HIGH HOPES
When the springtime sun shines on Lake Constance, the Austrian city of Bregenz feels like a dream. Residents meander along its shop-lined cobblestone streets, pop into its world-class culture venues or stroll by the water. On one such day in 2015, entrepreneur Johannes Glatz was sitting outside a café in a busy square when he spotted a historic three-storey building that had long stood empty. Was it for sale? What could it become? He told his girlfriend, Lisa Rümmele, about his discovery. At the time, the couple had been together for just two months but she was intrigued. The next day, Glatz made some calls and an adventure began.
Read the full story in the pages of Konfekt’s Spring issue – out now.
Writer: Kimberly Bradley
Photographer: David Willen
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UP IN THE AIR
Intangible and invisible, the wind might seem immaterial – yet its very elusiveness is an enriching reminder of the world that exists beyond our grasp.
Read more of Hessler's essay in the spring issue of Konfekt – link in bio.
Writer: @steffihessler
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OVER THE MOON
There is something quietly transporting about a moon-phase watch – a timepiece that displays the lunar cycle on its dial, letting the wearer know if it is waxing, waning, crescent, full, or new over the 29.5-day lunar cycle. Long before it became a flourish on the wrist, the lunar display had a practical use: in the 17th and 18th centuries, it guided agricultural rhythms, religious calendars and, crucially, tidal calculations for mariners navigating by the stars. Astronomy and horology were once close companions; to track the heavens was to measure life on Earth.
Read more in the Tone pages of Konfekt’s Spring issue - out now.
Photographer: @alicefisherphoto
Writer: @brendatuohy
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