Before launching his eponymous fine jewellery collection in 1999, Shaun Leane was a longstanding collaborator with the late Alexander McQueen, providing provocative jewels for his legendary catwalk shows. Be it his recent Blackthorn collection, or the exquisitely shaped and gracefully set Salomé pieces, his works channel Art Nouveau aesthetics with a sentimental, often poetic edge, that appeal to the likes of Daphne Guinness, who recently commissioned the "Contra Mundum" gold and diamond gauntlet.
