…Mr. Gehry could do for adorn­ment what he has done for archi­tec­ture, it would be genius. The Guggen­heim Museum Bil­bao, the architect’s tour-de-force of brazen curves and soft metal­lic sur­faces, is so dec­o­ra­tive that it appears like a well-situated jewel in rela­tion to its nat­ural set­ting. I wish the new Gehry col­lec­tion Tiffany & Co. […]

Yes­ter­day, the Burberry Pror­sum show in Milan made a defin­i­tive case for the chunky-necklace-paired-with-a-coat the­ory. This refresh­ing take had me ask­ing why this idea hasn’t been explored fur­ther. There is a nat­ural affin­ity between a bold neck piece and the archi­tec­ture of a coat. The orna­ments Christo­pher Bai­ley, Cre­ative Direc­tor for Burberry, chose are stone-intense […]

When I think of all those fab­u­lous knits and coats tak­ing their trip alone along those long run­ways with­out any sort of twin­kle or spark with which to high­light a col­lar or shoul­der, it is sim­ply too much to bear. Or, as in the case of Christo­pher Kane’s peek-a-boo ensem­ble, really bare. I might have […]

Large, expres­sive pieces redo­lent of the shapes found in late 1930s and ‘40s designs high­lighted Jacobs’ run­way Fri­day night. Plat­inum, a cat­a­lyst for explo­sives, was com­man­deered for the war effort and rarely used for jew­elry. Gold was avail­able in lim­ited quan­ti­ties, and when pounded into thin, broad sheets could be employed eco­nom­i­cally to cre­ate the […]

On Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 11^th Van Cleef & Arpels, the haute jew­elry house whose legacy has always been so closely tied with fash­ion, will be launch­ing an inno­v­a­tive project in con­junc­tion with denim brand, Earnest Sewn. A new jean has been devel­oped by the com­pany called the Zazo, the fit of which is high-rise with a […]

The Oscar de la Renta show was all about dark, ebul­lient color that floats to the sur­face of fab­rics and washes down neck­lines in strands of multi-hued stones and foam-white pearls. Ear­rings and bracelets splashed color upon the body like a painter apply­ing a pigment-laden brush with unbri­dled enthu­si­asm. Women are the cel­e­brated can­vas here […]

As Fash­ion Week is begin­ning to take shape here in New York, the mind-set of a few design­ers seems to be turn­ing towards a com­pre­hen­sive look that includes jew­elry. Of course this has always made sense to me, and I’ve often won­dered why they shy away from fin­ish­ing their run­way state­ments with jew­elry. Is is […]