In London, Hannah Martin Brings an Elevated but Edgy Jewelry Style
The New York Times HMp, the latest line by the designer and goldsmith Hannah Martin, includes a professional piercing service if you want it.
With a mohawk hairstyle as jet black as her uniform of skintight Alexander McQueen and Ann Demeulemeester, Hannah Martin boasts no fewer than 12 piercings in her right ear and one in her left. The designer and goldsmiths aural real estate includes a 2.5-inch stylized gold safety pin, glossy Tahitian pearls studded with reverse-set cognac diamonds and a thick bolt that appears to plunge straight through the lobe.
That edgy look could be intimidating to some, but to the choreographer and director Wayne McGregor, who met Ms. Martin in 2019, it was captivating. We bonded immediately, not least because she was wearing her own incredible jewelry and I was awe-struck, he wrote in an email.
He and his partner, Antoine Vereecken, own several pieces by the jeweler, including a black onyx, emerald and sapphire pendant that Mr. Vereecken gave Mr. McGregor as a 50th birthday gift. She represents imagination, attitude, vision, power and unconventionality, Mr. McGregor wrote. Her jewelry is art and when you wear her work you feel inspired.
