Image of Shaun Leane at Savage Beauty: Creating the Porcupine Quill Earrings for Alexander McQueen

Shaun Leane at Savage Beauty: Creating the Porcupine Quill Earrings for Alexander McQueen

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Shaun Leane:
The porcupine quill earrings were stunning to me and I think they’re a beautiful piece to me as well because they really demonstrate the thought process when we craft and design pieces here. Because instead of just creating cups for the porcupine quill to sit into we actually cut the porcupine quill in half and then recreated the other half of it in solid silver, so it was half silver half porcupine quill. The actual moment where the porcupine quill meets the silver is so flush and so seamless it’s a beautiful piece of craftsmanship.