RIP.IP
Experiencing
the impossible
RIP.IP, as a promise and innovation both in artistic and fashion world, it is born from the original idea of Nicoletta Cardin who, after years and years of passion cultivated for pepperoncini plants, has decided to land in the world market bringing a unique line. This design began thanks to the mold of one of the many protagonists in the catalog: Trinidad Scorpion, “The First”. This pepperoncino, master of the fifth position on the Scoville gradation scale, is a cultivar native to Central America and Caribbean. Renowned for being elected the hottest pepperoncino in the world it is the key to the perception of pleasure, a continuous collimation of perfection and finalization. The most used color, as well as the real flag of the company, is red. As beautiful as lively.
Red has always been a symbol of extroversion and willpower, characteristics that allowed a hopeful young woman to realize an abstract and completely new idea. Strong, passionate is the color of blood, a flow of perception and emotion.
Along with the colour yellow (also present in the catalog) it belongs to the primary colors, as primary is the desire to succeed in making center in an ever-changing market. In the colors’ selection they cannot be missing: yellow (characteristic of Fatalii, symbolizes intellect, joy and warmth) and green (characteristic of Jalapeno, symbolizes nature and vital balance). All these sensations are defined by a very precise and structured work, able to assemble different parts giving rise to a real movement of economic culturing in the contemporary era. The various artistic movements have managed to complete a well-defined cycle of communication that, just like colors and fruit chosen, have restructured decomposed areas of an all too systematic view of fashion.
Challenge themselves, try and believe it by “experiencing the impossible”.
The plants are cultivated with care and love (red) inside a small greenhouse, located in the hills of Tuscany hinterland. The gardening process is based on an accurate water dosage in the late afternoon, as they are very sensitive plants. The case that covers them plays a fundamental role for the passage of the sun by protecting everything and calculating the humidity. What strikes at first sight is the faithful reproduction of the chosen pepperoncini. The one who was conceived first is, the already know, Trinidad Scorpion.
Originally from the district of Moruga (Trinidad and Tobago), its name probably depends on the final part that recalls, in fact, the scorpion’s tail.
Within the vast catalog of you can see a unique multiplicity of jewelry, divided into three categories: bracelets, earrings, necklaces. The realization and design behind the various forms was conceived to make the line caress the various parts of the body concerned by creating a style capable of harmoniously combining the spirit of ancient civilizations and common uses. Well, the vast majority of types of pepperoncini chosen had a significant importance in the administrative and economic organization in very remote times. Pepperoncino, in fact, was considered by pre- Columbian societies, a sacred plant as well as fundamental as an exchange currency for negotiations of various kinds. Subsequently, with the time’s evolution, the historical discoveries made by Cristoforo Colombo allowed, to this plant whit aphrodisiac traits, to make the pepperoncino land in the culinary dishes of the time, which prove to be a failure due to the lack of appreciation within the Spanish noble class by betraying every expectation of easy gains. Named in different ways: AXI (so called by the natives), India’s Pepper (mistakenly classified by the Italian botanist Andrea Mattioli) has gained, towards the end of the nineteenth century, the reputation of “spice of the poor”, being widespread (especially in Italy) only among the less well-off popular classes, for example the farmers that use it as a flavoring of their dishes, considered in that period “poor”.
The incredible shared ideology of this plant has allowed its qualities not only gastronomic but also curative, to presents itself all over the world beautifying the recipes going from the Mexican Tortillas, to the African Maionca to arrive, last but not least in the wonderful South of our beloved country, Italy. Within the catalog we can see two small pearls MADE IN ITALY that make their way through the undisputed giants of the most renowned and spicy pepperoncini in the world: Calabrian pepperoncino and Sicilian pepperoncino.
Habanero (coming from the Mexican state of Yucatan, tenth in the Scoville scale), Jalapeno (Mexico) etc. tell the passion dedication and idealization behind the continuous search for perfection. Moreover, this fruit has an important role in the medical field: capsaicin, an alkaloid capable of giving that touch of spiciness, ha anti-inflammatory properties especially in case pf osteoarthritis and arthritis.
The multipurpose use has allowed the RIP.IP company to transform, through a mold process with recognized and certified silver 925, a fruit into a concrete concept intended to remain forever.
Italian labor allows strict control over each product, ensuring an unparalleled level of safety and professionalism and allowing collaboration with other companies in the sector scattered around the world. Colors are GIVEN using a painting technique performed totally by hand. The jewelry’s process is divided into two completely different forms, selected according to the final size. For accessories of small mold, precision casting is used while, on the contrary, electroforming is used for machining on significantly larger samples.
With the first method, through the modeling of a solid (metal), a rubber form is created intended, subsequently, to be inserted into specific cylinders and mixed with wax added at a later time.
Subsequently, by means of the wax draining, the gypsum is taken and then cooked and, finally melted with silver 925 and shaped to give life to the jewel (named so for its composition made from 92,5% of pure silver and, the remaining 7,5% from other metals). The second one, instead, is based on the immersion of the low melting metal in the silver. This melting involves a stratification process, allowing silver to rise to the surface for extraction and, later, machining.
Nicoletta Cardin
Nicoletta Cardin was born in Milan on April 6, 1974 and grew up in the appearance of fashion and design world.
