The issue that every designer wants to be in, and even more so on the cover. Eurus Gallery's new exhibition in Bangkok is called "September Issue. Haute couture and prêt-a-porter as interpreted by jewellery artists".

Fashion is often opposed to jewellery. They say that fashion passes, but jewellery lasts forever. That you won't be wearing your dress in two years, and that you will pass your earrings on to your granddaughter. But in fact there are much more similarities in jewellery art and the art of fashion than differences, and even more so — oppositions.

Both fashion and jewellery change depending on our lifestyle. For example, after the First World War, women who had mastered men's professions did not want to put back into corsets. They began to wear loose dresses, tunics, dresses with a low waist. And instead of tiaras sitting high on their heads, bandeaux appeared, and instead of ceremonial necklaces - sautoirs. Sautoirs, of course, as a form of jewellery appeared much earlier. But at the height of fashion, they were in the 1920s, when this jewellery piece was nicknamed "dancing necklace". Women began to wear make-up in public that time, and jewellery houses produced a variety of necessaries for powder, lipstick and other beauty routine things. And also bejeweled lighters, because smoking in public for women also became the norm.

Fashion and jewellery are sensitive to changes in the world. The mentioned wars brought jewellery bracelet links in the form of tank protectors and brutal suits. And the space age brought those very futuristic, as if made for a catwalk on Mars, dresses and jewellery. The zipper alone, its invention, has had a fantastic impact on both fashion and jewellery, and not just practically but esthetically. Everyone remembers Schiaparelli's famous dresses, as well as the legendary Zip necklace produced by Van Cleef & Arpels.

In contemporary fashion, big corporations are increasingly dictating jewellery and fashion houses collaborations. And often not even by the principle of unity of spirit of the brands, but by belonging to the same group of companies. But there is a much more interesting sphere. Independent fashion and independent jewellery artists. Our exhibition is about them.

Lace can be not only made of fabric. The Hong Kong artist Dickson Yewn shows how graceful it looks in gold and diamonds. And how you can work with the surface of metal, combining the most complex types of engraving with enameling and achieving the effect of real printed silk, demonstrates the artist from China Richard Wu.

He also demonstrates the principles of creating jewellery using couture methods. He creates his Tube necklace in wax and tries it on a real sartorial mannequin to achieve a perfect fit on the neck. He then creates a clever mechanical construction that allows the elements of the necklace to adapt to different neck shapes.

"Pavlova" is the name of a sapphire and diamond ring by jeweller Alexander Laut. The three-dimensional diamond design imitates the ballerina's tutu.

Konstantin Chaikin is not only a fantastic engineer, inventor and specialist in watch movements, but also a designer with a very interesting approach to "dressing" his watches. Each "wristmon" has not only an animated face, but also its own costume. So the Minion is dressed in jeans, and Harley Quinn - in her famous red and black suit, and the Mouse king was no exception. In order for him to have a real crown, Chaykin even had to move the winding crown from the usual 3 o'clock position to 12 o'clock. And he didn't forget about the costume either.

With the help of a fantastic level of mastery of various enameling techniques, artist Ilgiz Fazulzianov can achieve any effects, including imitation of materials of couture outfits. Thus, open earrings, reminiscent of Creole earrings, are decorated with plique-a-jour enamel with a motif of dragonflies. It is reminiscent of transparent weightless batik. The effect is particularly surprising when a beam of light passes through the earrings and the pattern seems to light up.

Epic Jewellery has adopted fashion principles not only in creating high jewellery, but also everyday collections. For example, a year ago the artists presented a collection, which they called cruise collection and shares the common concept with the same named fashion collections. It brings together jewellery that is in keeping with this cruise spirit of ease of being, easy to care for, easy to wear and easy to combine.

In parallel with the main exhibition, the works of finalists of the first edition of the Eurus Emerging Talent Award will be exhibited on the same days at the Eurus Gallery.