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Your Guide to Dark Academia Jewellery

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A fashion micro trend that first gained traction in 2020, the ‘Dark Academia’ aesthetic seems to pop up around this time of year like clockwork. The blend of the return to formal education and the fast approach of Halloween really brings the moody vibes into fruition. ‘Dark Academia’ is a gothic sub-culture that romanticises learning and education with slight sinister undertones. A lot of the style is less about vivid colour and interesting pattern, but more about creating texture in your looks and adding meaningful motifs that usually have literary themes adds interesting details and a sense of intrigue to the aesthetic.

Religious Symbolism

Tied together for centuries, religion is deeply enmeshed into the world of academia, appearing in most art forms and shaping history. Religious motifs emerge in the style at times from devout belief but mostly out of intellectual interest, fusing their academic pursuits to their style.

Style this category by adding an Argento cross to your necklace stack or adding the traditional claddagh in amongst your rings.

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Argento

Recycled Silver Feather Anklet

Argento

Gold Claddagh Ring

Argento

Silver Engraving Cross Necklace

   Moody Colours

As the aesthetic is centred around darker subjects in academia, a lot of the colour choices lean towards the murky. Going literal with the colour choices and opting for deeper shades are a way to integrate the dark aesthetic, especially with the crystal selection. With browns, black and deep red being the colours of choice, adding those colours into jewellery choices with a hint of sparkle adds a luxurious touch to the peculiar style.

Incorporate darker coloured crystals into your stacks with pieces from Argento and August Woods, or style your wrist with a vintage looking leather watch from Cluse.

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August Woods

Gold + Black Twist Knot Bracelet

Cluse

Gold + Black Fluette Leather Watch

August Woods

Black + Silver Prism Drop Earrings

Pearls

Classic, ornate, and radiating historic significance, pearls are an absolute must have for a look to be truly ‘Dark Academia’. A great way to shift the colour scheme and add interesting texture to a necklace stack, pearls hint at a concealed elegance in the trend. Opting for a misshapen baroque looking pearl further adds an air of intrigue to your look, as though your pearls hail from a different age.

Bring the style to live with an ornate Vivienne Westwood pearl necklace or opt for simple elegance with dainty pearl earrings from Argento, and a contemporary bracelet from Pandora.

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Argento

Silver Crystal Huggie Hoop Peal Earrings

Pandora Me

Freshwater Cultured Pearl Bracelet

Argento

Silver CZ Pearl Drop Earrings

   Vintage

The type of jewellery seen most with the aesthetic are vintage pieces. Bringing styles from significant times and periods adds a different dimension to the trend. With Victorian style set rings and antique T-bar chains, the ‘Dark Academia’ aesthetic sees the charm of a piece being very obviously stuck in time. 

Add classic vintage looking pieces like the Argento T-Bar chain and chunky knot studs to your outfits for a little vintage charm and finish off your look with a classically opulent gemstone ring.

Argento 

Silver Ruby Halo Crystal Ring

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Argento

Recycled Gold Sunburst T-Bar Necklace

Argento 

Recycled Gold Knot Stud Earrings
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