Alexandra-Camelia Stanciu

Alexandra-Camelia Stanciu (Alice) is a jewelry and fashion designer who has exhibited in Bucharest. Notable exhibitions in Bucharest include Casa Eliad and National Bank of Romania. With a background in graphic design, since 2024 Alexandra has dedicated herself towards her own personal designs based in fashion and jewelry. 

With a focus on ancient and ancestral Romanian folk-lore and history, Alexandra uses her fashionable wares and jewelry to imprint symbolism related to her ancestors, but with a contemporary touch. Ranging from scarves, handbags and handbag accessories, earrings, and necklaces, these fashionable wares are often based on several connotations. The first reference would be towards the figure, these golden and silver figurative elements within the jewelry which depict these characters are complete with precious gems acting as positioned heads. These figures grasp towards the chain of the jewelry, as if hanging for dear life. The intricate nature of the figures are met with tribal linear markings upon their legs and they are stylized with large hips, perhaps symbolizing fertility or femininity. There is a compliment to the ArtDeco era of the early 20th century in these sparkled jewels, yet they seem so delicate, refined, and based in symbolism, which also gives them ancient aesthetics and sensibilities. 

In the handbags and accessories, we will find a pure minimalist design accentuating the raw, delicate fibers of the fine leather material. These compact bags come complete with ominous ancestral symbol imprinted within the fiber. This symbol acts as a circle of life complete with ancestral tomes with seeming connotations of mysticism and the mysterious forest. The naturality of the design and display of the material leaves handbags which are eloquent, refined yet restrained from opulence and references to exclusive luxury. In essence, these handbags seem to have an essence of naturality and mystique. With the scarfs, some of them share the traits of the handbags, while others are seemingly dyed with splashes of hot pink against surfaces of pastel tones, particularly Naples yellow and light purple. Such accentuations in both designs expresses a state of freedom, jubilee, and celebration of feminine form. When worn, these scarves appear more like theatrical props rather than designer garments for formal wear and usage. 

Modeled Golden (pictured above) depicts the artist with one of her prized figurative necklaces. The golden actor modeled on the delicate chains of the necklace is complete with a ruby gem head. This dynamic figurative element grasps for the chain and compliments the real human figure in indirect replication. Such ancestral connotations complete with gold and silver pieces such as the piece pictured represents refinement in interpreting our historical connections based in folk-lore and love for homeland. 

In these fashionable and jewelry wares, Alexandra-Camelia Stanciu depicts Romanian culture and folk-lore ranging from luxurious refinement to humble design and raw materials, complete with tribalistic imprints. The use of symbolic elements, whether based on ancient design or figurative characteristics, convey a narrative revealing glorification of tradition but with a new and refreshing contemporary touch based in minimalist sensibilities. In essence, Alexandra-Camelia Stanciu can be described as a designer who advances and expresses jewelry and fashion through elements of refined minimalism dipped in ancestral references which apply a bridge between the past and present. Her works can be described as complex in the ancestral context and refined in the minimalist execution, complete with a sense of wise and creative placement of material elements, which offer a great sense of jubilee and freedom.

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