We Must Patronize Only Ethical Jewelry Locally

 

 [Opinion]

Admittingly, as soon as  I have read pronounced comments about an excavated (was it?) ancestral metal found (I can just imagine how it looks), that was previously displayed, at a museum,  that recently made its way into the hands of an artisan, to make such jewelry reworked and molded from its original old trove haunt, I felt moved, to incredulity.  

How on earth, an unearth belonging previously deep a find, can make its way to the neckline of a beautiful celebrity? 

What are the resonating ideals of such an effort to make jewelry from a "gold find" from a past forgotten even if it has the best of intentions? 

Truly, it is hard to imagine exploitative fashion out of old belongings. 

Whose item will be next for the sake of fashion? I say fashion must NOW thinktank about its boundaries.

We all know that fashion is as imaginative as it can get. 

It knows no age and it explores anything that can be made into a beautiful thing. 

But our need for fashion let’s say even for the sake of being ecologically minded, must not be thrust into the unknown, enough to dissonate disrespect for the values of history, culture; and respect for the un-living.

It was like a hatchet depth to be unraveled that stylish jewelry fashion can come from those which can't defend itself,  making it unthinkable to own and flaunt.  

Fashion has always been liberating from the point of view of a wearer. But its purpose must not be to commercialize a past that makes up a culture or a society belonging to the rested.  

We make fashion, probably yes even out of a molehill, but that molehill must not come from an era belonging to the depart, where a treasure could be hidden, and exploited for the sake of art.