Funky Fashion for the Ears

Kirin Vas, founder of handmade earrings outfit Funkanatomy, talks to Youth Inc about her job and gives some handy tips on making earrings

We know where the funk in Funkanatomy is, but what’s the anatomy?
Must I specify? Isn’t it more fun when we leave people guessing?

 

Which famous person (or people) do you think badly needs some Funkanatomy?
Every person famous or not needs to ‘funkify’ their lives – choosing one over the other, would just be so unfair! But if I was being purely selfish, I wouldn’t complain if Kate Middleton wore a pair of my earrings.

When did you realise that earrings are your future?
Future? I’m lucky if I know what’s happening next week (and luckier if I remember once next week comes around)! Let’s just say earrings became my present (to self) after I realised I could make better earrings (in terms of quality and price and design) than the things which were available in the market.

What’s the latest buzz in the earrings trend?
Earrings have trends? I’m so glad I did not go to fashion school or anything because clearly I would have failed. Now I am going to sit in corner and question self for not knowing these things.

Take us quickly through the conception and creation of a Funkanatomy earring.
MATERIALS REQUIRED Beads, earring hooks, pliers, wire (any other findings you might require for creation of earring)
STEP 1 Take out raw materials – spread all beads out on floor to better ascertain their colours and shapes. Once room looks like bead market just threw up, you get a good idea of what materials you’re working with and you start making the earring.
STEP 2 er… that’s it.

Make your own earrings – by Kirin Vas

Materials required
1 Beads (which have holes through which you can thread them)
2 A bit of bendable wire.
3 Earring hooks from an old pair of earrings you no longer like/that have broken or have lost their partner
4 Pliers (to bend wire and cut the wire)

1 Cut the length of wire you want to use to make your earring.

2 Turn the end of the wire to form a loop (this will prevent the bead from falling right through)

 

3 Thread the beads with the wire in the order in which you want them to be

4 Cut the wire leaving enough to form a second loop.

5 For the final step, open up the loop present in your earring hoop. Place the earring loop through this one and close (make sure you do this properly or you’ll be short of an earring)!

 

Volume 2 Issue 11