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Make Do (Part 1)
June 9th 2019
June 5th, location: Regent Studios, Hackney. We decided to extend our a little candlelight hospitality to Hackney’s local bloggers and writers. Just to reach out and say, you know, we are here. Not much has changed in the journalist and blogging world as quite a few invitations went unanswered. A few promises followed by a […]
Changes
June 1st 2019
I think thus far in the new chapter, I have been asked at least ten times “how has the industry changed since the first time round”?? The changes are infinite. I believe that there is one guarantee in life and this is change. So you adopt adeptly or move on to something that feels right for […]
I’m frilled.
May 23rd 2019
Its always rather lovely to receive feedback from the press and doubly so when the writer hails from a city close to my roots, up north. The press and brand relationship has changed exponentially since we first started creating our scented diamonds many years ago. Welcome the influencer and the selfie. Not to date myself, […]
Renascence & Wick
May 22nd 2019
Ever the perfectionist. We concluded our soft launch from November in February. Since then we have reworked the Jonathan Ward packaging. Instead of printing solid colour on white stock we opted for a pre flooded pulp by GF Smith. This prevents cracking at the corner of each box (for any budding packaging designer this is […]
An Inexplicable Bond
May 22nd 2019
Fragrance design is quite a different discipline and design process to fashion. Fashion is the quest for the new and change. Fragrance can be a longer development process but when you get it right, it stays. It transcends season and trend. It bypasses fickle and fleeting and traverses its own line. Quite often I am […]
Fortune Favours (the Brave)
April 13th 2019
I arrived in New York City in 1997 with a suitcase and determination and in 2007 I arrived back in the United Kingdom after 10 illustrious years in the United States. In that year I started the first Jonathan Ward vision and two weeks after we launched the stock market crashed. So there I was […]