KATIE ROWLAND

Katie Rowland amazed fashion and jewellery critics with her sharp amalgamation of graphics, typography and opulent jewellery. Rowland trained in graphic design at Kingston University in 2003, before discovering her passion for ready to wear and high-end jewellery. Rowland released unisex collections 'Love & Faith', 'Heartbreaker' and 'Point Break', a decadent clash of handmade rings, necklaces, knuckledusters and cuffs as a debut. The collections were inspired by traditional and intricate typesetting techniques and inscribed with brazen messages such as 'Ring Me' and 'Love Hate'.

Katie Rowland has become an award-winning brand, designing and producing sumptuous high-end adornment. Her work has been described as "a seductive coalescence of enigmatic metals and lustrous precious stones. Not for the faint-hearted, Rowland veils and exposes only the risqué.”

Rowland creates rich jewellery that evokes a personal & sensual relationship with the wearer. She has championed her jewellery on the words, 'luxury, seductive and playful', whilst her graphic design background has determined her unique use of typography, form, clean lines, use of colours and attention to detail/finishes within the collections. Inspired by the female form and psyche, Katie blurs the boundaries between jewellery, fashion and design with her decorative collections.

Lingerie powerhouse Agent Provocateur approached Rowland to design for their Spring 2010 catwalk show and exclusively for their new jewellery line, which launched early 2010. Katie continues to work alongside Agent Provocateur's Creative Director, Sarah Shotton, in developing the brand's jewellery collections. She also collaborated with up and coming design talent Gemma Slack in Rowland vs. Slack AW10, a unique take on jewellery as bodywear. Inspired by tales of damned love, Rowland vs. Slack is an exploration into escapism, romance and pleasure that evolved into a series of golden structures with delicately binding chains in a collection that borders between jewellery and clothing.

Katie Rowland was awarded the Coutts New Designer Award 2009, the Sonama-Cutrer Design Award 2009 and the Lonmin Design Innovation Award for Platinum 2009 & 2010. She has recently been shortlisted for New Designer of the Year and Catwalk Jewels of the Year 2010, at the UK Jewellery Awards, as well as cultivated a celebrity clientele including the likes of Cheryl Cole, Coco Sumner, Danny Minogue, Daisy Lowe, Noel Fielding of the Mighty Boosh, Tali Lennox, Kimberly Stewart and US R&B star, Keri Hilson.

For further information about Katie Rowland please contact: lisa@blow.co.uk