From a young age, I liked observing trends, but I rarely felt the need to follow them.
Maybe because they change so quickly—often before you even have time to see whether they suit you.
Every year, new words appear to describe style — minimal, bold, quiet luxury, statement, and many more.
I recognize them as the trends of their time, but I consciously choose not to let them influence my work as much as possible.
Because style, in the end, does not begin with words.
It begins with the person who wears something again and again, until it becomes part of their everyday life.
With the way a piece of jewelry lives on the body and changes along with it.
When I design, I don’t think about how something should be worn.
I think about how it can exist on different bodies, on different days, in different lives.
The same piece can feel strict on one person and completely everyday on another.
And for me, that is the most interesting point.
Because what remains is the person who wears it.
Ceros jewelry is not made for a single use.
It was not created to serve a trend or simply to complete an outfit.
It is designed to slightly disrupt it, to throw it just off balance.
Someone might wear it with black, every day, without thinking about it.
Someone else might pair it with something soft or romantic, to create tension.
No way is more correct than another.
I believe that personal style is revealed more through repetition than through constant change.
In the piece you return to again and again, until it almost becomes part of yourself.
If there is one thing that truly interests me, it is not how my jewelry should be worn.
It is seeing how each person makes it their own.
Trends will pass.
Style remains when you are not trying to prove anything.
Hermione Barona
for CEROS JEWELS