Feeling down post-fashion week season and amidst the grey palette predominating the October landscape? How about a splash of FLAMBOYANT – in ruby red script – surrounded by Carmen Miranda, Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo? Designed in collaboration between Tatty Devine and Sue Kreitzman as part of a provocative new exhibition "Dare to Wear," this deliciously extravagant limited edition necklace is just one of the eye-popping delights that Kreitzman and 25 participating artists have prepared for visitors.

An art collector, curator and eccentric style icon herself, Kreitzman has taken an irreverent and daring approach towards mixing art and fashion, with a tantalizing touch of bad taste that calls back to her previous "WOW" and "Flashier&Trashier" exhibitions. Set in The Crypt of St Pacras Church, "Dare to Wear" promises to take us on an underground exploration of adornment in its many guises, be it through clothing and jewellery or talismans, dolls, amulets and all kinds of assemblages.

More than 25 artists answer intriguing wardrobe conundrums such as ‘How many kilos of weird jewellery are correct to wear on any given day?’ and ‘What will you wear on the way to the afterlife?’. See you there – if you dare.

9 October - 4 November, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London

Debbie Cicalese (inspired by Man Ray) in response to "Will wearing beige really kill you?"

John William

Yvonne Mabs Francis in response to "What should we wear on the way to the afterlife?"

If glamour alpinism was a sport, Sabrina Dehoff's collection would certainly be its one-stop-shop equipment supplier. A German jewellery designer and RCA graduate, Dehoff trained at Guy Laroche and Lanvin in Paris before starting her label in 2005 and has ever since produced solid-stoned thematic collections that invoke an exuberant and unrestrained elegance. Her latest Mountain High collection makes no exception; full of solid brass and gold-plated cuffs, earrings, and necklaces dripping with coloured gems and Svarowski crystals and occasionally held by smooth or braided leather straps, it is unashamedly glamorous with a hint of alpine frostbite. With her diamond-sharp cubic shapes and bold rings that beg to be worn in clusters, Dehoff's pieces were just made for a cinematic exit, be it a seductive villain making a run to her alpine lair or a Bond-movie heroine hanging on a helicopter stair as it takes her away into the distance.

Above: "A Voiding" by Carlo Keshishian

This October the innovative fine jewellery designer Annoushka continues her “Art at Annoushka” initiative that launched in 2010 by collaborating with the three winning artists from the arts platform Outside In. Supporting artists outside or on the margins of art institutions on account of health, disability, social circumstance or nonconformity, these initiatives are dedicated to promoting outsider art, or ‘art brut’ as coined by French radical artist Jean Dubuffet, and this year they have given Carlo Keshishian, Jasna Nikolic and Dannielle Hodson an arena to display their daring and challenging work.

From Hodson’s evocative portraits on canvas and glazed glass and Jasna Nikolic’s psychedelic compositions dealing with issues of religion and mortality to Keshishian’s ‘obsessively’, as they have been called, intricate patterns that seem to be “visibly containing time and recording its growth,” the three artists certainly push the boundaries of what is considered art and offer a dose of unrestrained creative energy, very much in the vein of the Annoushka brand.

Starting as an outsider herself when entering the largely traditional industry of fine jewellery without any formal training, Annoushka Ducas expressed her delight at working with these artists who hold “something raw and exciting which comes from an unconventional path in their artistic development.” Having personally chosen her favourite works by these artists, she will exhibit their work from Tuesday 2nd October to Saturday 20th October 2012 at the brand’s Cadogan Gardens studio. Attesting to the organic force of aristic self-expression that transcends training or institutionalization, their works are well worth a closer look.

"Clown" by Danielle Hodson

"Hearts Rodeo" by Jasna Nikolic