{"id":92248,"date":"2026-10-12T08:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92248"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:41:58","slug":"is-it-fashion-or-is-it-art-hong-kongs-vann-jewellery-falls-somewhere-between-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92248","title":{"rendered":"Is it fashion or is it art? Hong Kong\u2019s Vann Jewellery falls somewhere between the 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/11\/7ae599c2-69e2-45e4-a805-1e8f83f19773_11d1d525.jpg?itok=qBDP5PnS&amp;v=1791690872\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While clout and trendiness may be the currency of contemporary fashion, Hong Kong costume designer-turned-jewellery artist Vann Kwok chooses to prioritise artistic narrative over social capital or seasonal hype.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kwok founded Vann Jewellery in 2019 \u201cto create something cool and fashionable, but now, I\u2019m a middle-aged woman\u201d, she quips. \u201cBeing cool isn\u2019t essential to me any more; it\u2019s not something I feel compelled to achieve.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf people find my work cool, thank you \u2013 but it\u2019s really a platform for self-expression. Nowadays, I treat my brand more as my way of communicating with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kwok, now in her early forties, studied fashion design at Hong Kong\u2019s Polytechnic University, and spent most of her twenties in the local film industry as a costume designer. In 2013, she took a leap of faith and enrolled in the fashion artefact master\u2019s programme at the University of the Arts London. She immensely enjoyed the course\u2019s \u201csuper experimental\u201d approach and its strong focus on material, which encouraged her to question the boundaries between art and fashion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3370158\/it-fashion-or-it-art-hong-kongs-vann-jewellery-falls-somewhere-between-two?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While clout and trendiness may be the currency of contemporary fashion, Hong Kong costume designer-turned-jewellery artist Vann Kwok chooses to prioritise artistic narrative over social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1501,2738,354,3569,13828,5010,31502],"class_list":["post-92248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-art","tag-falls","tag-fashion","tag-hong","tag-jewellery","tag-kongs","tag-vann","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}