International Women's Day offer has been extended til 28th March!

In celebration of International Women's Day, we have extended our amazing -50% off RRP offer across the website for a further 2 weeks until the 28th March.

Its simple, at the check out enter "IWD2018" to benefit from this offer. Whats more, if you order over £30 you will automatically receive FREE SHIPPING as well!!

Our brand new collection has gone live at Bay.one in South Africa

Our brand partners Bay.one in South Africa have just launched the new Emi Jewellery collection and it looks absolutely fantastic on their platform!

Bay.one was created to give Africa access to trend-setting brands and the most up-to-date products from stores and brands from across the world. Everything they do is with the intention of providing Africa with unrivalled and convenient shopping experience. 

We were one of the first international brands to sign to the platform. We sell our jewellery alongside British brands such as: Closet London, Quiz, The Ordinary & many more!

Our concession with Bay.one is constantly updated with the hottest styles we're pushing each season making our collection easily accessible to our customers in South Africa.

If you want to know more, just click HERE.

We're on TV in the UK with look again.co.uk #MyLookAgain

We've just been informed by the amazing marketing team at Lookagain.co.uk that our Turquoise Stone & Feather Earrings have been featured in their UK National TV Advert.

Lookagain used our earrings along with a watch from French Connection and a bag from Radley to finish off their own brand, on-trend polka dot dress.

Lookagain have a super cool, easy to shop section on their site that pools together all the looks featured in the campaign where you can, effortless and easily shop our earrings. 

Just look for code: 97S495 online if you want to search for them directly. 

These bohemian inspired earrings are priced at just £12 and will be delivered directly to you in a few days.

We also featured them in our latest campaign shoot with Youtube star & blogger Vintageena. Gina says she "loves the simplicity of the design and the colour is great too" Check out Gina modelling the earrings below in our SS18 campaign we shot here close to our offices in Switzerland.

Seeing this advert has got us right in the mood for the summer already! The sun is shining here in Ticino today making it feel all the more real.

Thats if for now.

Love, Xander. x

International Women's Day -50% off all orders at EmiJewellery.com until March 14th

With the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away - there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProgress. And with global activism for women's equality fuelled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp and more - there is a strong global momentum striving for gender parity.

And while we know that gender parity won't happen overnight, the good news is that across the world women are making positive gains day by day. Plus, there's indeed a very strong and growing global movement of advocacy, activism and support.

So we can't be complacent. Now, more than ever, there's a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity. A strong call to #PressforProgress. A strong call to motivate and unite friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive.

International Women's Day is not country, group or organisation specific. The day belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. So together, let's all be tenacious in accelerating gender parity. Collectively, let's all Press for Progress

IWD CAMPAIGN THEME CONTINUES ALL YEAR

March 8 sees the annual IWD campaign theme kick off for the year ahead, although many groups around the world adopt and promote the campaign theme from early in the year. The IWD campaign theme provides a unified direction to guide and galvanize collective action. The campaign theme does not end on International Women's Day. It's just the start. Throughout the year many groups worldwide adopt the IWD campaign theme for further campaign work, gender-focused initiatives, continuing activity and events. A great example of this was in 2017 when the USA Women's Hockey Team went on to adopt the #BeBoldForChange IWD campaign theme to later rally for equal pay, boycotting the national finals unless a suitable deal was struck. Many fans and further teams supported the campaign.

As part of #IWD2018 campaign and a celebration of women, we are offering -50% off RRP across our site for 1 week. Just use code "IWD2018" to get your discount! This offer will expire on 14th March.

Xander Kostroma Fashion Ltd is an equal opportunities employer taking particular care especially in women's rights. Xander believes that we should all be treated equally regardless of gender, sex or race. All of our staff members are paid fairly & equally, across the board.

Mid-season sale from Freemans.com - give in to you vegan shopping urges

Yup - thats right! You heard it correctly. We've just gone into mid-season sale at our all-time, favourite online concession at Freemans.com!

I've rounded up my top 10 favourite sale picks below. Be sure to check out the full collection at Freemans here. All of these styles have now gone into sale with -30% off up to -50% off RRP.

Happy guilt-free, Vegan shopping!

Yup - thats right, these scarves are made from polyester or cotton so there really is no need to worry about cruelty when shopping with Emi Jewellery. We've got you covered!

Love,

Xander

Updated: Biodegradable plastics & fashion

Behind the scenes at Emi Jewellery, we've been working pretty hard to reduce our impact on the plant with the work that we do. From today, we have added in the below new paragraph to our about us page online. Check it out:

Packaging materials

Around 90-95% of the plastics that we use in our packaging are biodegradable. So what does that mean? It means that a special additive is included during the production process meaning the plastic will biodegrade in 12-24 months in landfill. This harmless residue matter is then absorbed leaving behind no micro-plastics and more importantly, 0 trace that the plastic we used once existed in the first place. Our polybags, address labels & bubble wrap are all biodegradable.

We use recycled paper, paper sellotape & plain cardboard boxes which can be recycled to ship our jewellery

What does this mean as a company? 

Well, it means just that - we've almost eliminated the non-recyclable plastics from our business. Our postage bags, wallet docs & bubblewrap used to send our jewellery to our customers are all biodegradable.

Our paper is recycled. We use paper sellotape to close the packages and plain cardboard boxes which can be recycled to keep your new jewellery safe during transit.

Xander is working hard on a solution to eliminate the last 5% of non-recyclable plastics from our business which he is hoping to roll out by the end of 2018 so watch this space!

Now there really is no excuse for guilt free shopping!!

Enjoy!

Love, Emi. xXx

PG tips announces switch to plastic-free fully biodegradable teabags

The UK’s biggest tea brand is switching to fully biodegradable tea bags free from synthetic materials to cut down on plastic pollution caused by the nation’s favourite hot drink.

The first of the new eco-friendly pyramid teabags from PG tips – made from a plant-based material that is 100% renewable and biodegradable – will go on sale in UK supermarkets next week, it was announced on Wednesday. 

In the first major move by a mainstream tea brand, the Unilever-owner company says it is working to make all its teabags from 100% plant-based material by the end of the year. Unlike conventional teabags, they will be free of polypropylene, a sealant used across the industry to ensure bags hold their shape.

Unilever’s scientists have been exploring plant-based alternatives for PG tips for some time and have already converted ranges in Canada, Poland and Indonesia.

According to the trade body the UK Tea and Infusions Association, teabags account for 96% of the 165m cups of tea drunk every day in the UK.

“Tea is the most consumed beverage in the UK, with nine billion PG tips teabags sold every year,” said Noel Clarke, vice president of refreshment at Unilever. “Our latest move maintains the same great taste of our tea whilst minimising our environmental impact.”

Article reblogged from The Guardian.