It will be a sin­gle wave­length of color for fall, accord­ing to Style.com’s Laird Borrelli-Persson; from head to toe, we will be awash in a sin­gle tone. Thank­fully, this will be a sea­son of sonorous neck­laces, pins, and bracelets that will hap­pily leap onto that mono­chro­matic stage. Design­ers chose a Hud­son River School palette of […]

Neck­laces with a round­ness of rhythm are tak­ing shape on the necks of for­ward think­ing fash­ion plates. Notice how these two exam­ples from Brits Sarah Hutchi­son and Chris­tine Kaltoft use pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive space to define the char­ac­ter of each piece. Hutchison’s palette of sil­ver, gold plate and fresh­wa­ter pearls cre­ates a pastel-hued depth-perception […]

The intri­cately crafted bracelets above were hand worked by the met­al­smiths of Laos. As you can see from the image above, the pat­terns in these pieces have a lot in com­mon with the ornate gold dec­o­ra­tion of the tem­ples and shrines that dot the pic­turesque land­scape. This type of jew­elry, which was orig­i­nally cre­ated as […]

Upon notic­ing a showy sap­phire ring worn by a guest to a din­ner party, jew­elry designer Fulco Ver­dura qui­etly com­mented to his din­ner com­pan­ion, “min­er­al­ogy isn’t jew­elry.” Per­haps the gen­tle­man was a bit too quick to judge the visual effect of stone because even his con­tem­po­raries rec­og­nized the design pos­si­bil­i­ties in raw gem mate­r­ial. Susanne […]

It’s the only type of pin that I didn’t dis­cuss in my newly released book on brooches. Pins can cause drama, and not a lit­tle bit of trou­ble. Simon Doo­nen felt the prick of Andre Leon Tally’s tur­ban pin when he spoke at the CFDA Awards on June 2^nd. Not­ing the glo­ri­ous plat­inum and diamond […]

As I was doing research on the web today, I hap­pened to come across images of men wear­ing pearls. The first pho­to­graph was of fash­ion designer, John Gal­liano attend­ing Yves Saint-Laurent’s funeral. Around his neck were strands of black pearls twisted into a rope, which made them look more like a scarf than a necklace. […]

With the pass­ing on Sun­day of fash­ion designer non­pareil, Yves Saint-Laurent, the extant cos­tume jew­els bear­ing his aes­thetic are find­ing avid buy­ers on Ebay and vin­tage jew­elry sites. Much of it is from the 1980s and has an East Asian-inspired or exotic look. YSL was a con­sum­mate provo­ca­teur of such seduc­tion that his con­cep­tual prowess […]

As the sun rose today, I got a Sun­day morn­ing urge to do some antiquing. With my hat, flip-flops and sun­block in place off I went in search of what­ever I would find. When I attend these shows, I almost never go with an agenda. There’s more fun to be had when hunt­ing and meeting […]