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One of the great ironies of London Fashion Week’s upcoming 25th anniversary season is that as many of the city’s homegrown talents return to show their collections, Giles Deacon is heading off to Paris. His show (usually styled by Katie Grand) has always been one of the week’s most coveted tickets. But this year, he’ll be showing his spring 2010 work in France after winning the international ANDAM award, which gives him €160,000 to grow his brand. But the good news is that London Fashion Week won’t totally miss out on Giles. He’ll be celebrating the launch of his first fine jewelry line there during the collections. “It’s gorgeous. They’re all statement pieces with a mixture of semi-precious and fine jewels. There are also some quite unusual hardware pieces,” he tells me during a visit to his crowded and busy work studio (more on that later) in Shoreditch. A series of beautiful, massive, bejeweled spiders — early incarnations of items that will appear in the new line — sit on the windowsill in his office. Prices will range from £200 to £800, which means the jewelry won’t be so inaccessibly expensive that you can’t invest in a piece. It hits stores on September 21.