AT ONCE IRREVERENT AND REFINED, TOM BINNS IS A DESIGNER WHOSE WORK REDEFINES THE LANGUAGE OF JEWELRY, MERGING ELEGANCE WITH A SUBVERSIVE SENSIBILITY. ROOTED IN THE SPIRIT OF DADA, HIS PRACTICE CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF VALUE, TRANSFORMING
FOUND AND EVERYDAY MATERIALS INTO OBJECTS OF UNEXPECTED DESIRE. FROM EARLY COLLABORATIONS WITH VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AND MALCOLM MCLAREN, BINNS HAS WORKED ACROSS A RAREFIED SPECTRUM OF FASHION, PARTNERING WITH DESIGNERS INCLUDING CALVIN KLEIN AND COMME DES GARÇONS. HIS WORK HAS INTERSECTED WITH THE IMAGE-MAKING OF RICHARD AVEDON AND IRVING PENN, AND BEEN WORN BY CULTURALLY DEFINING FIGURES FROM JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT TO RIHANNA OR MICHELLE OBAMA.
