The Story

Hey, I’m Charlotte, the overeducated and overdressed designer behind Rixon Frost - a jewellery brand I started to expand the ways we can all show up in the world... 

Early on in the design stages of Rixon Frost I showed someone a mood board for the brand and he told me there was too much on it. Well, that’s how I roll my friend. I mean, let’s look at the mood board of my life shall we? 

• Fashion obsession - working everywhere from powerhouses like Harvey Nichols to independents like Jane & Dada
• Academic dedication - gaining multiple degrees and living and lecturing all over the world
• Non-profit direction - co-leading the UK’s foremost art and technology organisation
• Writerly reflection - publishing a book and countless articles on creative histories and futures
• Emotional connection - volunteering as support worker for sexual violence survivors then training and working as a coach and therapist 

• Creative expression - designing and hand-making unconventional demi-fine jewellery as Rixon Frost!

To put it another way, I live (and love my jewellery) large. So frankly there was no way I was going to rein myself in. And neither should you.

More is more and less is what? Exactly!

Anyway, back to the story. With a strong vision and knowing what I needed to make, I set about learning silversmithing at the Hatton Jewellery Institute in Hong Kong - while continuing to work at the School of Creative Media as an assistant professor in digital art and design. This meant that my early influences were extremely wide ranging - with sketches that combined warrior women with gaming consoles and art deco building facades.

Likewise I am happiest if my production process stretches out across a range of techniques - traditional and cutting edge. For example I like to draw and paint designs, as well as cut them out of paper and card so I can arrange and rearrange different elements. I then like to use a mixture of: CAD; 3D printing; lost wax casting; hand fabrication; soldering; frankly endless filing and polishing; and eventually gold and black rhodium plating to create my prototypes.

When I have something I like, I wear it over and over to see how it feels. I know I have something when it amplifies my outfits and my energies. 

Indeed, in my own life of style I’ve always been obsessed with unusual items that I can build endless and somewhat performative outfits around. And I’m just as happy in giant costume jewellery as slightly less epically proportioned fine jewellery. In fact I prefer to mix the two.

So I always knew that what I wanted to create with Rixon Frost was a wholly hybrid, ostensibly oxymoronic, costume-but-make-it-fine, collection of collectables. I wanted large, but long-lasting, ethically-made jewellery that would defy convention and categorisation.  

The result is an over-actively imagined and meticulously hand-made collection of pieces you can endlessly remix according to your own unique energies and expressivities...