Kerry Washington Invests in Female-Owned Jewelry Brand Aurate
Kerry Washington is unstoppable! Not only is she an award-winning actress but Washington can also add investor and co-designer to her list of many talented accomplishments.
Starring as the face of Aurate’s new campaign Kerry had a hand in co-designing the new Lioness Collection – a capsule of cool jewels centering on the symbol of the lioness – an emblem of power. What we love about the collection is that twenty percent of proceeds from all sales of the pendant go to Supermajority – a women’s activism group working to transform the country and build an intergenerational, multiracial movement for women’s equity that the actress is involved with.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar Kerry says that accessorizing for fancy events provided her with the experience necessary to co-design a collection. “I’ve always been drawn to fine jewelry that has a real delicacy to it. I spent 20 years going through jewelry trays, whether I’m doing press or walking the red carpet or doing a junket or at a magazine cover shoot, looking at jewelry, figuring out what do I like, what don’t I like, what works, what doesn’t work,” she says. “And so it’s been fun to bring some of that experience now to the table, as an investor and designer.”
“This is a company by women for women. And I wanted to make sure that our design was an organic growth out of those values and that commitment,” Washington explains. “We started talking about the lioness and what she symbolizes. Because lionesses, they hunt together and they raise their cubs together. They provide for the tribe by going out for the kill together, but they also come back and they raise each other’s cubs and there’s no hierarchy. There’s no one lioness who’s in charge of the other. They really are a collective of sisterhood.”
Applying the lioness symbolism to women, Washington says, “I just love that imagery for how it speaks to the power of women when women come together, how we are both fierce and loving. We also started working with the imagery of Sekhmet, who is a goddess from Egyptian mythology. Her name literally translates to, ‘She who is powerful,’ but she was a warrior because she is a warrior goddess and also a goddess of healing.”
She goes on to say that “Also using the idea of a coin to really speak to women’s value and our worth in the world. But another one of my favorite things about the collection is the two different chains that are bonded together as a symbol, really of what happens when women come together as one circle. So there’s a lot of really powerful imagery [within the collection] and I love that.”
Is Lindsay Lohan Making A Comeback As A Jewelry Designer?
What’s that saying – “Better late than never?” Well, it’s taken Lindsay three years to do it but the actress finally announced the launch of her new jewelry line with Lily Baker.
The actress created a 40-piece collection that includes stud earrings, hoops, bracelets, and necklaces with the UK-based jewelry company and features designs from Hamsa stud earrings ($52 USD) to crystal-encrusted safety pin earrings ($145 USD).
Could this be the same collaboration a rep for the star told Page Six was in the works in 2017? We’re not sure but if it is, she is finally making good on a promise she made three years ago!
Let’s face it we were pretty skeptical especially since she was suppose to have a line with Mouawad in 2011 and that fell through! Who knows #lohanjewelry might be a thing!
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