Is Designer Jewelry Really Unique?
It is difficult to persuade people that designer jewelry is really unique, particularly when they know it is not. The term 'designer' to most people means that it has a famous name attached to it, but in many instances that name is more of a paid endorsement than an indication that the name has had any input into its creation.
Nevertheless, many designers have designed the clothes labeled with their name. Tom Ford no doubt designed his menswear and Vera Wang certainly designed her wedding dresses, but there is nothing unique when you can buy the same Vera Wang wedding dress in New York as you can in Tokyo and a hundred other major cities around the world. So 'designer' does not mean 'unique'.
Designer does not equate with unique, just with a name on a label attached to apparel that could have been made hundreds of times over. The same is true of jewelry: the same design is sold all over the world, so is designer jewelry really unique? Absolutely not! Most is mass-produced by machines that throw out the same rings, brooches, and bracelets so that outlets worldwide can offer the same range of designer jewelry.
Now, let's consider real handmade and designer jewelry. It should be stressed immediately that 'handmade' and 'designer' are not the same. In fact, while 'handmade' has a meaning, 'designer' does not. Anybody who designs an item is a designer, whether or not that item is handmade. A piece of handmade jewelry has a degree of uniqueness, if we can use that term, as opposed to a machine-formed designer ring, for example.
There is a lot of designer jewelry that is stocked by the thousand in the safe of a jewelry store, each exactly the same, but designer none the less because it has the designer's name attached to the label or price tag. There are also thousands of similar stores all over the world selling exactly the same products holding a thousand of each in its safe.
However, Babilla cannot do this because all of his pieces are 'genuinely' handmade, and all are true designer jewelry. There is a world of difference between a beautiful filigree bracelet, hand crafted using very fine silver threads, and a lump of gold stamped with a design and available in every size imaginable. Babilla's jewelry is like crochet in silver, and every piece is unique as truly handmade jewelry is.
However, Babilla's creations are not just all filigree: he can offer you beautiful hand crafted rings in carefully hand-chased and sculpted silver, such his 'silver moons', which are so beautiful that it is a wonder that anybody could resist wanting to own one. And there is a lot more, but the point being made here is not the range of products that a master craftsman can offer, but the difference between genuine 'handmade' jewelry and that claimed to be, and between 'true' designer pieces and those mass produced from a 'designer template'.
So if you are seeking something unique, as opposed to just another designer ring, bracelet or pair of earrings that your neighbor might also own, then compamies like Babilla are who you should be looking to, and not to the so-called big-name designers that do not offer 'unique' because they have to sell their products worldwide in as many outlets as they possibly can.
Your 'unique handmade designer' bracelet can be on sale a thousand times over from the store in which you bought it, and also in another 1,000 store worldwide - not so Babilla's creations, so do your loved one a favor and make sure that he or she has something that nobody else is going to have. You will be well rewarded!