Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi is a Japanese designer but being born and growing up in London the two different cultures merged, taking on board both the English country he was surrounded by and his Japanese heritage. This mix of cultures fed his creativity and was a great source of inspiration as he was growing up, taking this cultural mix into his  jewellery designs.

This fusion of the cultures is apparent in his jewellery, when asked about this he explained this as "how I design is effected by a combination of Japanese and British culture. It's equal parts sovereign rings and Saurai swards." The mixer of Japanese and British as created a clean, bold and loud looking pieces,when I look at them I do see the Saurai sward the clean sharp edges married with the bold flamboace of the sovereign rings.

While growing up Daisuke Sakaguchi knew he wanted to work in the fashion industry but the thought of using fabrics and making garments did not appeal to him, instead he enjoyed creating 3D objects. When he was a teenager Daisuke Sakaguchi had a love for fast melody music from jazz to garage and this love pushed him to want to create artwork that looked how the music sounded,  he turned this into graffiti . Whist in the grips of this love for music and being out on the street it was then that Daisuke Sakaguchi thought of jewellery as a career, seeing jewellery as a platform for his art and as a loud three dimensional  object that could be worn as a focal point of an outfit.

With his unique style of fusion cultures and love for music he soon became sort after once his hip hop-style knuckleddusters, bracelets and necklaces was pick up on the fashions radar after he launched the collocation in 2005. After that Daisuke Sakaguchi has worked with many well know brands making bespoke jewellery for such brands as Adidas and Nike.

For one off bespoke pieces Daisuke Sakaguchi insist that he creates them himself and all designs and concepts sketches must be hand drawn, believing that the human element is impotent to the design proses and that how the hand moves has a large impact on the design changing the shape and feel of the piece your working on. As well as the changing the form of the designs that hand drawing his sketches brings it also gives Daisuke Sakaguchi a chance to work out the physics of the jewellery working out how the piece fits round the body and moves with the wearer.

One such bespoke collection he made was to celebrate Nike Air Force One with was the 25th anniversary of the brand.Daisuke Sakaguchi  contribution to the project was the creation of 25 unique silver pendents that pieced together to depict the number 25. This was Sakaguchi interpretation of the Nike Air Force One sole print and each of these 25 pieces were etched with acid to make the modern and bold design.


Although Daisuke Sakaguchi designs his jewellery for the streets he has also hand many catwalk shows for his work , designing collections for fashion show like Jappanese fashion store Oki-Ni and well as presenting a solo show of his jewellery for Tokyo Fashion Week in 2006. The following September he was also in the London Fashion week catwalk where he showed of his bold jewellery which has latterly been redesign into silver dog tags, mobile phone accessories and jacket toggles.

With much of his work Daisuke Sakaguchi brings a modern and bold look to the jewellery he produces, taking the work from the streets to the catwalk with little effort and reaching out to the fashion designers and fashion conscious alike.