BIBI’S BESTIARY

WELCOME TO BIBI’S BESTIARY

Celebrating 20 years of storytelling through jewellery, Bibi van der Velden introduces Bibi’s Bestiary, a collection of 50 symbolic charms inspired by the duality of life’s journey. Each piece represents not only joy and celebration but also resilience through life's darker moments: the challenges faced, fears overcome, and transformations experienced.

HOW TO BUILD YOUR CHARM STORY

1.Begin with your foundation. Choose your chain, bracelet, or earring - your base of meaning and connection.

2.Enter the Bestiary. Discover 50 symbolic creatures - messengers of courage, transformation, and protection. Let instinct guide you to the ones that speak your truth.

3.Weave your story. Add your charms one by one. Layer them, combine them, let them evolve with you. Wear them as symbols of memory, power, and possibility.

Build your story, one charm at a time.

BEGIN YOUR STORY

WHAT IS BIBI’S BESTIARY?

A modern mythology cast in gold

In Medieval times, a Bestiary was a sacred book of beasts - a compendium of real and imagined creatures, each carrying a lesson for the human soul. Lions stood for courage, owls for wisdom, serpents for transformation. These illuminated manuscripts blurred the line between the natural and the divine, using animals as mirrors of our own instincts, fears, and desires.

Bibi’s Bestiary is a modern reimagining of that tradition - a cabinet of curiosities in gold and spirit. Every creature in this collection has been sculpted as a talisman, drawn from myth, memory, and nature. They are guardians and guides, reminders of strength, beauty, and becoming.

Each charm is a story waiting to be worn - a symbol of your journey, a whisper of the wild within.

ENTER THE BESTIARY

BIBI ON THE BESTIARY

“These charms aren’t just about marking milestones; they’re about honouring our inner worlds — our hidden struggles and quiet triumphs,” says founder and designer Bibi van der Velden.  “Jewellery should be personal, symbolic, and powerful. This collection helps you carry your story, with all its beauty and complexity.”

This is just the first glimpse of Bibi’s Bestiary — a cabinet of curiosities unfolding, a story only just begun. Soon the creatures will grow wilder, more untamed, more beautifully strange: mermaid tails crowned with lions’ heads, winged beasts touched by fire, and secrets yet to be imagined.

As Bibi says: “The wildest stories are always the ones still waiting to be told.”

WELCOME TO THE BESTIARY