Soft Mountains
The emergence of Soft Mountains stems from a deep love and concern for nature, heritage, and craftsmanship. Using the brand as a polyphonic channel to tell long-forgotten and neglected stories of Nuosu-Yi people, the designers combine ancient craftsmanship with a young vision to imprint their jewellery with their thoughts on history, humankind and its cosmology.
Each series and product of Soft Mountains is rooted in timeless details of the traditional Nuosu-Yi ornamented accessories. By extracting elements from the conventional way of how the Nuosu-Yi wear their jewellery, and through preserving a purely handmade production process, Soth Mountains hope to plant a new vital force into the tradition, achieving a truly sustainable design while broadening the contemporary meaning of “indigenousness” by diversified, polyvocal thinking and aesthetics.