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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, February 72023 – WISeKey International Holding (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading cybersecurity, AI and IoT company, today announced that renowned designer Bjorn Vandenberg, known for its rich, bold and sophisticated jewelry described as “wearable art” in collaboration with media artist Ivo De Kok, will enter the world of NFTs, launching on the WISe.ART platform, its luxury brand with the initial collection royal greens, and the unveiling of its new collection night runner. The first NFTs are now available on the WISe.ART platform, just in time to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Expanding beyond traditional artisanal techniques, Bjorn Vandenberg continues to cross boundaries and constantly expand his vision, shaping a new future of luxury.
THE royal greens The collection is inspired by the glamorous setting and glitz of old Hollywood, with roots in the golden age of cinema and its over-the-top decors. The collection unabashedly samples art deco, modern design and anything that seems luxurious, as well as the royal crown jewels – which symbolize magnificence and beauty.
Bjorn van den Berg translates this inspiration to create an exclusive line of jewelry finished with a layer of pure platinum combined with clear crystals and emerald green reflections, emphasizing the influences of the art nouveau and art deco eras. The jewelry is handmade in Europe.
Night Rider – Unique Limited Eediting
Designer Bjorn van den Berg presents his new couture collection: ‘NIGHT RIDER’. With this collection, he will take you to a new world that is both surreal and futuristic. New techniques and details are combined with luxurious materials and high-tech electronics. The fusion of details from the distant future and Bjorn’s luxurious aesthetic is what brings this futuristic collection to life. Bjorn decided not to shoot a campaign for this collection. “I wanted the designs to speak for themselves,” he explains. “This collection could also be described as wearable art, it contains several unique items, which are true collector’s items.” Additionally, Bjorn chose to create an exclusive series of NFTs in collaboration with photographer Ivo de Kok. NFTs will be available and published on the WISE-ART platform, February 2023. Her wearable art is worn and seen on Gwen Stefani, Nicki Minaj, Ciara, Demi Lovato, Mel B, and Paris Hilton, among many others.
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Bjorn Van Den Berg always knew he wanted to be a designer. His journey began in 2011, when he decided it was time to pursue his passion for creating and reaching the entertainment and fashion industry. Bjorn has worked in the fashion industry as a stylist, designer and art director. After styling for many years, design came quite naturally to him as particular clients began to request bespoke garments. To stand out, Bjorn started customizing his own shoes, belts and jackets. With his endearing personality and his talent, Bjorn not only marked the world of fashion: his creations quickly attracted the attention of the international music and film industry.
He became a big hit and launched his own commercial label – BVDB in 2012.
IT’S ABOUT TELLING YOUR OWN STORY
With his great love for fashion and his unique vision of style, Bjorn is always on the lookout for new and innovative materials and techniques to create an exclusive style and design. For him, fashion is about telling your own story.
EXTRAVAGANT + UNIQUE
Bjorn’s innovative, impressive, extravagant and unique custom designs for the high fashion, music and film industry have been featured in several magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Treats Magazine, Basic Magazine and V Magazine for n to name a few.
WORN BY INTERNATIONAL A-LIST STARS
Gwen Stefani, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Ciara wear her designs on and off stage. Bjorn has established his name among artists, especially in the music industry. Due to his splendid designs and striking collections, he works closely with international star stylists to create and design that iconic or one-of-a-kind look.
Recently, he added pop star and icon Nicki Minaj to the list of world famous names on his resume.
Bjorn is renowned for her signature corsets, tiaras and spectacular jewellery, which reappear in different versions in each of her signature and bespoke collections.
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WISE.ART is working on cross-blockchain support, enabling a true open data economy with support for Ethereum, Polygon and CasperLabs and is gradually adding new chains to ensure interoperability and scalability as part of the overall strategy of WISeKey to act as the leading platform of the Web3.0 revolution. It provides both a secure marketplace and platform where NFT buyers and sellers can easily connect their crypto wallets to instantly buy or list their NFTs for sale. The NFT design of the WISe.Art platform ensures that in addition to an authenticated and signed version of the actual digital asset, an irreversible link to a physical object is in place, in addition to proof of ownership, provenance and a set of contracts outlining future use and monetization flows, if any.
WISeKey SA (NASDAQ: WKEY / SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity platform company currently deploying large-scale digital identity ecosystems for people and things that respect humans as the backbone of ‘Internet. The WISeKey IoT technology stack includes a range of technologies such as Semiconductors, eIDs, Blockchain, NFTs, Post Quantum, Pico Satellites and Trust acting seamlessly as a platform that secures the simple connection of things to the Internet to the most complex applications who use them. connected objects, the data they collect and communicate, and the different steps required to feed these applications.
WISeKey semiconductors secure the pervasive computing that shapes today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an installed base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, NFT, smart lighting, servers, computers , cell phones, crypto tokens, etc.)
Our technology is endorsed by the Swiss-based OISTE/WISeKey Cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) which provides secure authentication and identification, in physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions between objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
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