ATMA ARM CANDY

Hello everyone!

Apologises its been a while but we've been swamped with our charity events and orders but on a lighter note, we've created some fun fresh pieces that have come in just in time for Christmas and for a great cause.

Kanch designed these Atma Arm Candy bracelets and are handmade and braided together with neon strings. Kanch embellished the bracelet with Swarovski mud balls with a brass, silver plated centre piece.

As some of you know Kanch is the founder of Hong Kong chapter, charity Atma and every month we've created an event to raise awareness for the foundation.

Kanch was inspired by the Arm Candy trend which has always been popular to stack and coordinate them, such as gold and bronze base metals together with accent colours or boho thread bracelets.
Usually, you don't mix base metal colours together like gold and silver, but stick to one and build from there.

Bangles have also been a large contender for the Arm Candy trend and mixing and matching has always been a fun task for us. Carefully deciding which bracelets go together and which ones should be put in the "maybe for next time" pile.

This trend will never go out of style as bracelets will come and go but the art of stacking them and creating a chunkier or simpler stack.

The bracelets are the set, 3 for $400 HKD and 1 piece for $150 HKD and 50% goes to Atma. 

Please email me if you'd like to purchase them as a gift or for yourself- Buy@kanchancouture.com 

ATMA-
20% of India’s poor have no access to education. 86% have no access to technical and vocational training; 45% drop out before eighth grade.  By 2015, 65% of Indian population will be youth. By 2050, 50% of  the world’s illiterate will be in India. Supporting quality education for all children. To build the capacity of NGOs and the development sector as a while through effective and profound partnerships with the organisations that work in the areas of education, children and community development.

When I first read this I was totally shocked, as India has the second largest population in the world and 50% of worlds illiterate wil be in India is a very sad and chilling statistic.
Everyone deserves a fair shot at an education and knowledge is so important to survive in a modern world so Kanchan Couture is 100% dedicated to getting the word out there and hopefully change this.

Stay tuned for more events!

Visit: www.atmahk.org

Love, Petra

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HK Gem & Jewellery Fair

Last week Kanch and I went to the HK Gem and Jewellery Fair. We left at 3 after a bridal consultation with a new client-she was lovely! Then caught a taxi to the HK convention and exhibition center. I told to the taxi driver to go to The Renaissance Harbor view hotel because I didn't know how to say HKCEC in Chinese haha. I said to Kanch that I had only remembered it because of club Tribeca-back in the day and she goes “yeah it was called something else before that ”Club-ING!! I’m sure the Hong Kong bred will know what I mean!
We got out the taxi with our passes in our hands and headed in.
There were people everywhere from all over the world, buyers, manufacturers, from Ukraine, Italy, India and Spain to name a few.
It was super overwhelming but we had a game plan. Kanch wanted to check out the silver jewellery floor-5th so we took the 3 extra long escalators up. These exhibition halls are usually used for concerts so you can imagine how big the halls were.

There was booth after booth, jewellery of different colours, and stones. There were earrings, necklaces, clasps, lockets, photography equipment- I could go on!

This was my first time going to the Jewellery Fair and I really enjoyed it. I really takes a lot out of you, after 1 hall of asking questions, talking to the manufactures and being chased for mine and Kanch’s business card you get a little tired!!
1 hall took us a little over an hour to look through and after the silver jewellery hall, we decided to check out the fine jewellery.

Walking into the second hall was like walking into jewellery heaven. Kanch and I had seen some of the rarest stones and most outrageous pieces yet. The necklaces were oversized and full of diamonds and precious stones. Everything was a lot more extravagant in this hall with rare stones and beautifully cut diamonds.
We were so tired after the second hall, especially since we had done a whole lot of walking that week because we were in Guangzhou doing some sourcing and research. Walking around 5 different malls that are all 3x the size of IFC you do get a little delirious and tired haha.
We decided to call it a day and left the HKCEC. It was such a lovely day and Kanch and I learnt a lot and had a lot of fun. We’ll be back for the next fair and hopefully the Las Vegas one next year!!

Love Petra.