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Shoutout to Silk and Boots
This week we were featured on a fashion blog called Silk and Boots. Silk and Boots is an awesome UK-based fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog. Blogger, Vicki Jempson loved our MONSOON collection so much that she wrote this blog post. We are so grateful when someone takes the time to write such genuine and kind [...]
Behind the MONSOON Collection
'Fast Fashion' jewellery retailers pump out mass produced new pieces on assembly lines. Our process at Zefyr is VERY different. Every single piece of our jewellery is handmade by our amazing artisans and each of our designs has a unique back story. Here is the the MONSOON story.Last week after much excitement and months of preparation [...]
What Makes a Brand ‘Ethical’?
In April this year, two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy killed 1,129 garment workers in Bangladesh, the ‘Who Made My Clothes’ digital campaign went viral globally revealing the demand for transparent ethics in the fashion industry. A seed of consciousness was planted and ‘Ethical fashion’ is now officially a trend (according to hashtag world). It’s a hugely progressive move [...]
Love and the Art of Kindness
With Valentine’s Day coming up and Random Acts of Kindness week upon us, our thoughts here at Zefyr have turned to love and the many ways it finds expression. Valentine’s Day has traditionally been a day for the celebration of romantic love. St Valentine for whom Valentine’s day is named was famous for being imprisoned for [...]
Happy NYE everyone!
It's that time of the year again when we look forward to the year ahead and wonder what's coming. We also look over our shoulder and remember the year that has passed. Reflecting on 2014 here at Zefyr HQ I realise that this year has been a big year of firsts for us. It's seen the [...]
Fair Flashback
Here's a funny little video my husband Lewis put together of us setting up our stand back in August at the Home and Giving Fair in Melbourne. It seems so long ago that we were freezing our little socks off in 3 degree weather. I actually had to wear a beanie and parka inside during set [...]
Green Living: Green Smoothie
Being a business owner with a chronic illness can be tough. Particularly on the mornings when I wake up and just feel blah. You know the feeling. It's like heavy weights have been tied on to all your limbs and torso during the night. Everything feels. Just. So. Heavy. Fatigue is definitely something I struggle with on [...]
Getting your Yoga Cow Face on
Hunched over my jewellery bench or computer all day I find that, like many of you, I get very tight and constricted upper shoulders. Just one of the side effects of being a jeweller. Ouch! A brilliant yoga pose I discovered to help open up my chest and stretch out those tight little shoulders of mine [...]
Science of colour: Blush Pink
Scientists have long known that colour has an effect on our emotions, but how exactly does a particular colour move our hearts and souls? At the moment at Zefyr we're obsessed with blush pink. So pretty and feminine. So understated and subtly beautiful. We love the feeling it creates in us: one of wistful longing. But what effect [...]
Following Your Passion: Tanya Coelho
In the Following Your Passion series we'll be interviewing people and brands that we love here at Zefyr. People who inspire us, brands we love to follow, labels that make us tingle. All of them with one thing in common: Passion. We thought we'd kick off the series with an interview with Zefyr's very own designer, Tanya [...]