For the last few years we have partnered with the growing retail brand Ceremony, which has 4 stores in Ubud, Bali and one on Gili Air. The partnership came about after Cassandra met energetic couple Isil and Mustafa while sourcing furniture just after the pandemic....
Bone carved jewelry is a perfect marriage of sustainable materials and legendary artisanship....
Behind every successful woman is a best friend giving her crazy ideas...
Cambodia's remote Ratanakiri province, with its red earth and rubber plantations, is the world’s main source of the beautiful zircon stone. The zircon is the most brilliant of all blue gemstones. It has a refractive index that rivals the diamond and considered more rare....
(Feature image credit: The Apurva Kempinski) The most southern point of Bali provides stunning views across the Indian ocean. Not surprisingly, some of the world’s most renown hotel brands have opened elaborate resorts along the beaches and cliffs here. The recently opened Apurva Kempinski, in between...
Emi & Eve was born in Hong Kong and held it's crowdfunding event at Soiree in Elgin Street, a stylish cocktail bar close to our hearts. We also shot our first campaign in this location. This illustration is a tribute to Hong Kong's vibrant night...
The Arkoun earring jackets are part of the Emi & Eve jewellery collection. Our jewellery is made by artisans in Cambodia by recycling parts of artillery shells, bullet casings and missile tubes. ...
In October 2018 I was asked to talk about Emi & Eve at Loupe, the art foundation launched by Hong Kong jewellery giant Chow Tai Fook. A household name for generations, Chow Tai Fook stores can be found on many a street in Hong Kong. Tycoon family The...
On my journey to understand the process of clearing mines and other XO and UXO, I have met with various landmine action operators in Cambodia. It's good to see that all the organisations seem to employ only a limited number of foreigners with the actual...
Emi & Eve said goodbye to Hong Kong and moved to Singapore in 2017. Since founder Cassandra Postema spent much of her childhood in Singapore, finally having a base there was a welcome change. This drawing celebrates the return to fresh inspiration via Singapore's...
Emi & Eve jewellery has been sold in Canaan since 2017. Canaan is the brainchild of Emmelyn Gunawan, an Indonesian fashion designer and member of the iconic Potatohead beach club family....
https://youtu.be/SL2P3ruMD9E Do you have a dog, a cat or maybe a pet rat? On April 5, which was International Mine Action Day, Emi & Eve adopted a professional landmine clearing rat called Magawa who works at Apopo in Siem Reap. APOPO is an acronym from Dutch which stands...
Emi & Eve is thrilled to announce our collaboration with jewellery atelier Ammo in Siem Reap. Ammo was founded by UK jewellery designer Madeline Green, who established her atelier with backing from local NGO SaoMao. Ammo Jewellery Design was formed from the desire to marry...
Being very familiar with Balinese culture, I was surprised to find, on my first visit to Cambodia in 2012, that temples and temple ceremonies looked very familiar, with flowers and much gold gilding everywhere. The Apsara figure translates as “celestial nymph” and I saw many of...
An insightful documentary "The Landmine Girls" by Emma Louise Fry, who was an International Journalism masters student at University College Falmouth at the time she made it. In it we follow two girls who are part of a CMAC demining unit and listen to them...
Deep in the hot dim maze of the Russian Market in Phnom Penh, you can find various jewellers' shops. Our gemstone dealer's tiny shop is an oasis of light, air conditioning and sparkling gemstones in glass cabinets. He comes from a family who have been in...
I was born in Pursat province, Cambodia. I don’t have any siblings and my mother died when I was 4 years old. My father was killed when I was 8 years old by a notorious Khmer Rouge soldier. It was a terrible time for me....
It's hard to imagine what went on thirty years ago in the Kingdom of Cambodia, where people now go about their business planting rice, going to market, getting married and going to school like anybody else in South East Asia. Talk to anyone as young...
Historically, the rare, deep blue sapphires of Pailin in Cambodia were once the most highly regarded by gem traders throughout the world. The original source of the legendary Pailin sapphires is known to be the The Phnum Yat volcano in the south west corner of...
What adventures did you create as a kid? Perhaps you built a tree house in the backyard, or played ball with the neighbours' kids. Until it was time to go in for dinner. This was a far cry for children in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge...
In 2008 a Norwegian film maker, Morten Traavik, organised a beauty pageant in Angola that featured women who had lost limbs because of landmines. Although the idea seems a bit shocking, it was a concept developed to challenge the conventional concepts of beauty, and the general...
Emi & Eve have been working with a home working seamstress, Thearith Soun, for some time. Thearith is a skilled tailor. She is also not only a war survivor but also a HIV survivor. She heads a small group of seamstresses with HIV in her community....
This post first appeared in The Guardian's Sustainable Business hub on 12 February 2015. Design innovation and social problem-solving are coming together in the fashion world, from fair trade pants to recycled bombshells. Over the past few years we have seen a growing desire for more transparency...
One day, several peacocks wandered away from the circus where they live...
