The Man who Knows Everything

The infamous Comte de St Germain appears throughout history across the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. He remained the same age, always impeccably yet simply dressed to fit his transient surroundings.

His only remarkable refinery was the bountiful precious stones that adorned his hands, set into buttons, covered the buckles of his shoes, and filled his travelling cases and trunks.  Un-place-able and untraceable, he is a man worthy of word from Marie Antoinette and Madame Pompadaour; of acknowledgment from Voltaire, Pushkin, Horace Walpole; and of composition by Chaikowsky.

This fifth collection from Hannah Martin is a visual dedication to a man beyond time, beyond scientific limits – both highly modern and unspeakably ancient. 

This collection, delirious and drenched in blinding lights, reflects the intensity of Hannah’s latest investigation of narrative masculinity. A range of hyper-real, shamanistic jewels that seem to tell the unspoken tales of the Russian Tsars, secrets from within the courts of Louis XV.

Objects created in tribute to this undying and beguiling muse invoke euphoria through alchemistic promises. Intensely coloured stones are mixed to hallucinogenic effect upon structures that find their source within constructivist and monumental architecture.

Photography by Joss McKinley | Styling by Anders Soelvsten Thomsen | Model Jose Neto | Make Up by Dorita Nissen
Hair by Takeshi Katoh | Shot on location at Lullingstone Castle, Kent.