Notes on Design: Emotion, Material & Meaning

The Rila Look - Lorn Jean®

Emotion can be felt through form. It moves in the line of a curve, the pause of negative space, and the weight of a piece held at the edge of the body. It is shaped through scale, detail, and a considered balance between creative instinct and structural refinement. It lives in the thoughts that these structures in space produce.

In earlier works, jewellery defined the garment’s structure. Metal elements held the composition, shaping movement and silhouette with architectural intent and intricate surfaces. Connection points were placed with care, transitions refined to retain lightness within structural movement and presence.

Every layer and metal piece formed a deliberate block in the construction of a vision. These were not gestures of decoration, but integrated frameworks — a lattice shaped through beauty, meaning, and ergonomics.

Meaning emerges through material decisions: how space is defined, how surface is resolved, how sculpted forms are placed. Each piece carries an internal logic shaped through proportion and scale. These are compositional choices, iterated and designed, until what remains feels essential.

Emotion is composed through these decisions — refining a form that becomes a symbol.