Alina Alamorean

Alina spent a paradoxical youth split up between her artistic and architect family roots and the grey reality of a communist country. At age of 22 she left her country with the deep desire to survive thanks to her 10 fingers. Some years, two marriages and three children later, she finally took the decision to make her dreams come true and say NO to conventional life. She studied at the Jewelry School on rue du Louvre in Paris for six months and participated at the HRD Diamond Awards, contemporary international jewelry design contest, which she won in 2007, thanks to the Invincible Cape, made of iron wire, black velvet and 983.57ct rough diamonds. Then she started her company. Philosophy of my collections or philosophy of my life? For me that’s the same. But, I don’t think of this question while I’m creating. I’m just doing sincerely what I feel. And I’m feeling what I do and what I need. But what I need the most from myself is to breathe, all my jewelry is generally “open”. The free circulating air is more important than anything because it allows me to think! The emptiness and the volume is so important to me. Only then am I able to relax and dream. There is always a bit of drama in what I do. And I always seek the definition of the line; what makes a line turn into shape? My work is a curious mix between extravagance, rigor, purity, research of beauty, and provocative elegance. There’s always some black erotic idea hidden. I also hate decoration. It masks the lack of truth. Heavy substance is much more exciting for me. But if I should answer your philosophy question in one word, I would say, freedom.