Jewelry Designer for Princesses

Filed in archive Jewelry Designers on March 8, 2007

Jewelry often makes me feel like a princess, but one jewelry designer makes jewelry for the real deal, real princess. Her name is Clementina Duarte, and she is a Brazilian jewelry designer who has even written a book about her work, 'Clementina Duarte - the art and design of modern Brazilian Jewelry.

Here is more about this talent jewelry designer to royalty from A Brazilian Jewelry Designer for Queens and Princesses:

She's the Brazilian designer who created jewelry for weddings of Arab princesses in the United Arab Emirates.

Her meeting with Arab royalty took place in 1982, after Clementina was invited by the Brazilian Ministry of foreign relations to participate in an exhibition and a fashion show in Abu Dhabi, to be attended by approximately 30 international jewelry stores.

"My jewelry was chosen by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and by Queen Fatima Al Nahyan," the designer says. The daughters of the couple wore the jewels. "Meeting the queen and the princesses was a huge satisfaction, as was designing jewelry for them," she claims.

The designer remembers very well one of her most exciting moments in Queen Fatima's Palace. According to her, during the show, the queen called upon one of the princesses, Shammah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to parade wearing one of the body jewels designed by Clementina. "When the princess walked in, everyone rose and said: 'Nefertiti!' It was beautiful, unforgettable," she says.