Vice & Vanity is a jewellery design studio in Joo Chiat, Singapore where the feeling is that vice belongs “in your heart and soul. But accessories usually look better on limbs, clavicles and on your vain outfits.” Vivi Masturah Lim and Aaron Kao are the designers behind the collections that focus on necklaces, bracelets and brooches. Care for the pieces requires “common sense. No crocodile attacks, nuclear fusion or genetic experiments.”



Ora Necklace.

Vice & Vanity uses images of bones in the jewellery. How have bones and body parts become incorporated into today's designs? What made them fashionable?
Images of bones have always had an element of the rogue about them. They can represent anything from poetry, to existentialism, to beauty. From pirate ensigns to a Goya painting, mine fields to a figure drawing class, biker dudes to collectibles. Decadence has always found its place in beauty.

Nada Necklace.


The world is already full of 'stuff' – as a designer, why do you choose to create more?
For us, there's always a 'high' in seeing and making and leaving a 'mark' on this planet. Could be a closet, primal, cave man instinct to make a mark on a stone.



Ora Bracelet.