Behind the scenes at Tatty Devine We get the scoop on Tatty Devine's spring/summer 2013 jewellery collaboration with Louise Gray. Tatty Devine, purveyor of all things fantastic and plastic, are in the spotlight this week after showing a successful catwalk collaboration with Louise Gray for her madcap spring/summer 2013 collection. Where better to recharge one's fashion-fatigued batteries, then, than at the Tatty studio tucked behind London's Brick Lane? Tatty Devine, for readers who are unfamiliar with the company ranked by Dazed and Confused as one of the 50 coolest brands in the world, is the brainchild of Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine. The two friends met at Chelsea School of Art and began making jewellery to sell at street markets. After experimenting with jewellery made out of perspex - an obvious medium nowadays, but back in 1999 it was an untapped material - and meeting with great success, they set up Tatty Devine. READ: Tatty Devine call in the lawyers over copycat Claire's Accessories designs Humourous blockbuster hits include necklaces featuring plastic bananas and moustaches, so a link up with London's most eccentric designer, Louise Gray, designing earrings and rings for her Barbie-inspired collection, is a match made in heaven. "Louise came to us with a clear idea of what she wanted," managing director Rosie Wolfenden explains. Her catwalk clothes were so insane that she wanted something more simple for the jewellery. Originally when we discussed the project she was really into using crisp packets - she loves junk, does Louise - but eventually, after two months of testing, we settled on the exclamation marks and triangles. Exclamation mark earrings at Louise Gray spring/summer 2013. Photo: Vladimir Potop. The plastic Gray chose was particularly special: "There's so much colour in Louise's work, so we chose a perspex with a mirrored quality. The cool thing is that it looks silver from head on, but if it catches a certain colour then it can look completely different - green, pink, blue, yellow, whatever. Typically, Gray put her own stamp on the super-size rings, which will be available to buy as part of the capsule collection in February 2013. "We made huge circles the size of small plates for the rings," Wolfenden says, "and then Louise drew on them in black permanent marker - slogans like, 'Now what?', which was the title of the collection, and peppy instructions such as, 'Go go go'. I think there might have been the odd swear word in there as well! READ: Louise Gray's glittering Topshop debut This isn't the first catwalk designer to come knocking - Ashish, Peter Jensen and Basso & Brooke have all turned to Tatty Devine for designs in the past - but Wolfenden revealed there was one other designer whose whims they had unfortunately been unable to indulge. Christopher Kane came to our studio about two years ago now, with this crazy idea for creating nuts and bolts out of plastic. It was a real shame, but we work on flat sheets of acrylic, so we weren't able to create three-dimensional pieces that would be strong enough for what he wanted. It looks like Kane found a supplier in the end: his spring/summer 2013 collection was partly constructed out of plastic wing nuts. Christopher Kane's spring/summer 2013 show used giant plastic wing nuts, inspired by Boris Karloff's Frankenstein.