D’heygere partners with Petra Collins to turn diary pages, bitten nails and ant-ridden cookies into gleaming jewels, captured in hazy bedroom scenes by photographer Fish Zhang.
Paris-based label D’heygere, known for turning everyday objects into offbeat accessories, collaborates with Canadian artist Petra Collins on a capsule where adolescent memories take surreal, wearable form. Released under Collins’ own creative platform I’m Sorry, the collection distills her signature mix of nostalgia, vulnerability and strange intimacy into sculptural jewellery. Cookie earrings swarmed by silver ants, a wax-drip ring, a diary locket—each piece feels like a fragment from a coming-of-age film that never ends.
Fish Zhang captures it all in images that mix retro TV studio glam with Japanese pop-idol nostalgia. The models wear beehive hair, oversized bows and pleated skirts, somewhere between Hairspray and a shojo manga. Their expressions are distant, their surroundings dreamy: a cake, a mirror, a glittery stage. The mood is part performance, part memory.
Zhang’s lens freezes those liminal moments — girls mid-text, mid-glance, mid-thought — while the jewellery glints like a secret. D’heygere’s clean metalwork keeps the sentiment sharp: rhodium against resin, polish against imperfection. The collection turns teenage fragments into strange, sparkling relics.
The set slips between a messy backstage—complete with plastic toys, strawberry cake and handheld mirrors—and a glittering stage framed by fairy lights. Zhang’s lens captures the charged stillness of adolescent performance: a girl frozen mid-check of her phone, another holding a microphone like a totem, jewellery glinting as if it knows something you don’t.
As always with D’heygere, technical precision elevates emotional residue. Polished rhodium cuts through waxy resin; sharp lines contain the chaos. The collection is now available through selected retailers, offering not just adornment but artefacts of a strange, intimate mythology—sweet, awkward, and a little haunted.
