Satellite Voices

Rome / Italiano

Livia Lazzari's Voodoo Jewels

October 11

Jewelery designer Livia Lazzari gives us an exclusive preview of her latest collection

• Text by Flavia Ferrucci

Livia Lazzari is a young roman designer with a strong aesthetic sense and an innate passion for artisanal jewelery. In her collections tribal atmospheres, wild tales and a fascination for shamanic rituals blend together with a dark, gothic mood. Her creations are unique and handmade using natural materials, often found by the designer over the course of her travels. We spoke to Livia about her creative process and inspirations, in occasion of the launch of her latest collection "Une Historie Voodoo §5", of which she gave us an exclusive preview.

Satellite Voices: How did you become interested in jewelry? How do you choose the materials to use?
Livia Lazzari: I think I've always carried a strong interest in jewelry. I grew up in a family that has always inspired me and helped me to de develop an harmonious sense of beauty. When i was six i entered amercery in Cremona cause I had seen some boxes of embroidery beads, I quickly chose some materials and in the evening, at the hotel, I made my first bracelet. Since then I have never stopped, creating crafts with my hands and giving life to objects had become my passion. I've been accumulating all kinds of materials for years. Even when i'm not sure what I'll end up doing with them, I simply look at them until the inspiration comes naturally.

SV: What inspires and influences you in your creations?
Livia Lazzari: I can't exactly say what inspires me, I feel that creative people are constantly stimutaled, even unconsiously, by everything that surrounds them, we're simply overcome by a stream of inputs, words, images, smells and sounds that at the right time can spell out a new project. My creative process, for example, can be initated at the same time by some ethnic jewelry, a Tiziano painting or a Gareth Pugh collection, the three different elements come together in an harmonious balance in my head and an idea is born.

SV: If you could choose a 'model', real or imaginary, for your creations, who would it be?
Livia Lazzari: Without any doubts, Tilda Swinton, so androgynous and sophisticated, she'd be perfect especially for my latest pieces. Both her and my creations reflect a discorant beauty that comes from the clash of illogical and disharmonious errors that blended together become irresisitible.

SV: What's your current Obsession?
Livia Lazzari: I mainly suffer from musical obsessions. It takes just one listen and a song catches me, goes to my brain and stays there for weeks, months even, and the need to listen to it becomes almost physical. Lately i can't get enough of the "Drive" soundtrack.

SV: What's a hidden spot in Rome that you love?
Livia Lazzari: It's very hard to pick one among these three: the streets that link Regina Coeli and the botanical garden, especially in the late autumn afternoons when a warm and melancholic light falls down, the majestic courtyard and the entrance of the Museum of the history of the east at Palazzo Brancaccio and the Isola Tiberina, especially the side where they project movies in the summer. It's quiet and lonely, maybe even a bit grim.

SV: What's in the future of Voodoo Jewels?
Livia Lazzari: I honestly don't know, I don't want to make plans for now, I just want to focus on experimentation and researching new techniques and materials, to make a new voodoo spell that can enchant.

Photos by Martina scorcucchi 
Hairstyling by Nico @ Toni&Guy Roma
Make up by Valentina Pintus 
Model by Aleksandra Mitrovic