down under

Proud to be Down Under

We are very proud to present our Pure Bohemian collection, which was specially designed for our fellow pearl connoisseurs Down Under. We hope to share with our Australian customers the idea that pearls are no longer a formal fashion accessory worn by an older generation, with one look at our products you will completely scrub out the mental image of a string of white pearls with twinsets and come explore a whole new exciting world of pearls...

The Pure Bohemian collection is designed specifically for our Australian customers using vegan suede with baroque freshwater pearls or a unique combination of pearls with crystal beads and charms, some designs can be worn as a necklace or wrapped around the wrist as a bracelet.

The collection is comprised of unique designs that capture the essence of the relaxed and laid- back lifestyle of Australians and their love for the ocean. This season’s colours reflect the three essentials of our living: the earth, the sky and the sea. Every item in the collection is accentuated with a beautiful charm featuring the Endless Knot. This is an old Tibetan symbol, a line without a beginning or an end, which signifies both calm and movement, while representing the idea that everything in this world is interconnected. This represents Proud Pearls’ concept of all cultures coming together as an inspirational way of life.

This avant-garde collection can be worn in the cooler months teamed with jeans, knitwear, or a plain shirt and boots. This bohemian collection is also perfect for the warm weather, as boutiques around Australia begin to stock our summer tones and styles. These pieces can be teamed with your togs, shift dresses, maxis, shorts or caftans. Each design is completely unique and handcrafted from the highest quality materials and hand-selected pearls.

This collection is diverse and offers a piece for every occasion. The range features classy combinations of vegan suede, authentic pearls, wooden beads and charms. All of our orders can be personalised upon your request! During one of our designer, Hannelore’s, visits to Australia, she identified a market for the beautiful freshwater pearl designs to be worn as everyday jewellery. The stunning landscape of Western Australia inspired her to design this unique pearl collection.

We are very proud to work together with our lovely Australian wholesale manager, Tracey Smith. Proud Pearls are currently seeking exclusive stockists, for more information or wholesale inquiries in Australia please contact us for individual retail sales in Australia.

Our favourite bestseller Down Under

Our bestsellers in the Proud Pearls range are the pearl wrap bracelets. Each item is handcrafted from the highest quality materials featuring hand-selected, genuine, baroque pearls and vegan suede. We have two different styles:

white pearl wraps (125cm length / 3mm wide braid)
black pearl wraps (140cm length / 4mm wide braid)

White Pearl Wrist Wraps
You can wear this as a necklace or wrapped around the wrist as a bracelet. This season’s colours reflect the three essentials of our living: the earth, the sky and the sea. Each white wrap bracelet features our logo charm and the Tibetan Endless Knot.

Black Pearl Wrist Wraps
We are proud to present our new black pearl wrap bracelets, these wraps are a little longer and wider for larger wrists and for an edgier look. These pieces are available in the following colours: chalk, stone, steel, onyx, midnight or a custom colour upon your request. Visit our “shop” page to discover both collections of white and black pearl wraps.


black pearls

The black pearl collection

Historically, men were also big wearers of jewellery, dripping gold and jewels just as much or even more than women. The Black Pearl collection is bringing this back with an edgy jewellery line perfect for all genders. Search for images of Maharajas and Mughal emperors and you’ll wonder how they could move under the weight of their finery. Toxic masculinity has refined jewellery to be something particularly for women, however, in recent years, the codes governing masculinity have finally loosened up, and the traditional lines between masculine and feminine fashion are blurring. As a company filled with powerful women in the workforce, we strive to achieve gender equality, part of this being to blur the divide between conventional gender stereotypes and roles.

Harry Styles, wearing a pearl earring and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele at the Met Gala 2019 (Getty Images)

This evolution has been far from smooth since elements of the streetwear constituency are very much attached to masculine stereotypes. Kanye West’s Givenchy leather kilt on tour in 2011 caused fashion uproar at the time for its unorthodox approach. Looking back on this moment, Kanye considers this his fashion “awaking”. (source: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story)

Waylon wearing Proud Pearls at the Voice of Holland

Dutch singer and songwriter Waylon is a role-model for jewellery-wearing men, he combines several stainless steel necklaces with black pearls and creates a brave and edgy style. He is a judge on the Voice of Holland, as shown in the above pictures he is wearing our long, black baroque pearl necklace combined with other necklaces.

Marcel Veenendaal, lead-singer of Di-rect is wearing Proud Pearls wrap bracelets

Dutch lead-singer Marcel Veenendaal (from Rock band Di-rect) loves our Proud Pearls new Black Pearl collection and is very creative in mixing and matching his unique style. In the above pictures, Marcel is wearing our wrist wrap with black pearls and the ‘feather and pearls’ necklace, both available in our shop. Read more about Marcel, his band and up-coming concerts.Di-rect

Explore the black pearl collection and visit our shop.


the wine collection

High quality stainless steel chains and sterling silver earrings

The Vin Noir collection

Proud Pearls is very proud to release new designs in our unique jewellery range for wine lovers. Each design is hand-crafted with love in Holland from high-quality stainless steel. These pieces feature a stainless steel grapes-charm and genuine freshwater baroque pearls. The Vin Pearls collection is available in two colours: Vin Blanc and Vin Noir.

overview of our proud wine-jewellery collaborations

The Wine & Shine collection

Besides the Vin collection, we have released the Wine and Shine collection. Each design is hand- crafted with love in Holland. This collection features vegan suede and unique wine-charms: a wineglass, a bunch of grapes, a wine bottle and a corkscrew, combined with hand-selected, genuine, freshwater, baroque pearls and alluring crystal.

The Wine and Shine collection is available in several colours representative of favourite wines enjoyed by women all over the world.
• Prosecco-Silver with white pearls
• Sparkling Rosé with white and rose pearls
• Shiraz-Red with red pearls
• Pinot-Noir (black) with grey and black pearls,
• Champagne-Gold with white and rose pearls,
• Chardonnay-Green with white pearls
• Cognac-bronze with golden pearls.
Or custom colours by request.

Follow fans of @ProudPearls:
• The Travelling Corkscrew @travellingcorkscrew
• Fabulous Ladies Wine Society @fabladieswine
• Ferngrove and Killerby Wines @ferngrovewines
• Myattsfield Vineyards @myattsfield_vineyards
• Galafrey wines @galafreywines
• Sittella winery @sittellawinery
• Mistletoe Wines @mistletoewines
• The Lake House Denmark @lakehousedenmark
• Cheeky Monkey Brewery @cheekymonkeybeer

Contact us for more information about our other business gifts and to become part of our expanding list of wine-lovers.

Get in touch

• Interested in purchasing your own beautiful Wine and Shine Bracelet, or becoming an exclusive stockist of the Wine and Shine collection?
• Please contact us for more information we look forward to hearing from you.

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meet the maker

Proud Pearls, a brave new jewellery brand with a mission

Love from Holland
Hannelore, the Dutch founder and designer of Proud Pearls, has more than 25 years of experience in international fashion design. She has worked with many international clients including royals, famous artists and musicians. Hannelore’s inspiration is found in daily life as well as around the world. She travels the globe in search of new ideas, influences, materials and possibilities, always open to meet and work with inspiring people from different cultures.

Creative childhood
Hannelore comes from a creative childhood, with both parents always creating and constructing. “My whole childhood was filled with paint, clay and drawing etc. I’m the youngest of three daughters. As my sisters are much older than me, I had to entertain myself a lot of the time. My parents used to have a boat and we spent every weekend and holiday on the water. You could always find me in the forecastle creating things, especially cardboard dress-up dolls which were my favourites. I would make boxes full of paper wardrobes and of course jewellery for all my paper dolls. As a teenager I designed and sewed fashion collections for my Barbie dolls.”

Hannelore tries to instil the same creativity in her own children. “I’m trying to give my children the same creative childhood but it is a challenge with all the technology that surrounds us. I find it important to be bored as a kid: from boredom the most beautiful things can be created (laughs) although my daughters would not agree! My youngest daughter is 13 and uses her Iphone to make very creative films and pictures, so you could say it is a combination of two worlds coming together. My eldest daughter is 17 and was very creative as a toddler but finds more interest in her social life nowadays, she helps me a lot with my social media. I really like the international reach of Instagram, I have met so many beautiful, strong and inspiring women worldwide!”

East meets West
After high school, Hannelore applied to art school and was admitted to the prestigious Willem de Koning Academy in Rotterdam. She graduated as a fashion designer and went on to internships at several international fashion brands and designers. After one of her internships in Indonesia, Hannelore’s interest in Asia intensified. “I was very excited to have the opportunity to live in Asia 8 years ago, with my husband and my two young daughters. We have recently returned to the Netherlands but with a global network of friends and clients my world has become extended. I really advise everyone, if they have the opportunity, to live abroad for a while. Expand your horizon: live and eat local, meet local people, dive into other cultures: it really makes you a better and more humble person with an open mind.”

Fair process
Proud Pearls is designed for women who generously welcome influences from around the world, and who passionately enjoy life with awareness of the world we live in. “A fair process is one of the most important parts of our brand.” Hannelore explains: “we always do research: we work with honest materials to make our own small contribution for a better world, our designs are timeless and contemporary. I would like to make a statement against mass-consumption; why do we need so many new clothes and jewellery? It is really shocking to see the giant clothing factories in the East, they are all so polluting for these fast consuming collections, collections who are replaced in very short periods. I'm hoping for a change of mind and I notice that there is a movement of intelligent and powerful women who make more considered choices.”

International success
You will see both Eastern and Western influences have been creatively and lovingly combined to produce some amazing and unique pieces. The combination of various cultures is what makes Proud Pearls a surprisingly exotic brand: quality and creativity with no borders. Hannelore delights in working closely with the international Proud Pearls team to incorporate their exciting ideas for new collections and involve them in the entire process from design to creation. The unique items are a proud testament to the creativity, passion and craftsmanship of the entire Proud Pearls team. “The quality of Proud Pearls jewellery is very high, all designs are handmade in our studio in the Netherlands, all pearls are carefully handpicked by us- only the highest quality are chosen for use in the beautiful designs. Each item of jewellery is carefully hand-made in our studio in the Netherlands. I'm very proud of our well trained, passionate and professional team. We enable you to wear pearls in a brave new way- be proud to wear pearls!”


pearl braids

Favourite bestseller

Our favourite bestsellers in the Proud Pearls range are the pearl wrap bracelets. Each item is handcrafted from the highest quality materials featuring hand-selected, genuine, baroque pearls and vegan suede. We have two different styles:

white pearl wraps (125cm length / 3mm wide braid)
black pearl wraps (140cm length / 4mm wide braid)

You can wear this item as a necklace or wrapped around the wrist as a bracelet. This season’s colours reflect the three essentials of our living: the earth, the sky and the sea.

Every white pearl wrap bracelet is accompanied by our logo charm and the Tibetan Endless Knot. This is an old Tibetan symbol, a line without a beginning or an end, which signifies both calm and movement. It represents the idea that everything in this world is interconnected. This represents Proud Pearls’ concept of all cultures coming together as an inspirational way of life.

Black pearl wrist wraps

We are proud to present our new black pearl wrap bracelets, these wraps are a little longer and wider for larger wrists and for an edgier appearance. Accompanied by our logo tag, they are available in the following colours: chalk, stone, steel, onyx, midnight or custom colours upon your request. Visit our shop-page to discover both collections of white and black pearl wraps.


rock'n pearls

 

Dutch singer songwriter Waylon is wearing our black pearl necklace at the Voice of Holland

 

close-up of the long black pearl necklace

Proud to present our new Black pearl collection 2020

Bold & brave items meticulously made from genuine, freshwater, baroque pearls beautifully combined with stainless steel. Unique interchangeable designs which allow you to make your own unique statement piece by combining two or more items into one contemporary personalised design. Visit our shop to see more of our Black Pearl collection.