Yes­ter­day Sotheby’s New York sold a great piece that rep­re­sents all the rea­sons to love con­vert­ible jew­elry. This divert­ing exam­ple is a gold, cit­rine and dia­mond clip/bangle made by Cartier Paris, circa 1940. As you can see in the image below, the cen­tral motif sep­a­rates from its base and can be worn as a pin. […]

Jew­elry, that is…what were you think­ing? All those open neck­lines and bare arms leave the imag­i­na­tion open to sug­ges­tion. Mrs. Prada, who I have read is an avid col­lec­tor of jew­elry, gave us a gor­geous frame­work — per­haps delib­er­ately, per­haps not. How­ever, we can cer­tainly take licen­tious license, may we not? I’ve selected a couple […]

By day Brigid Berlin was a socialite whose father, Richard Berlin, was the king­pin of Hearst Pub­lish­ing. Her wealth and the life that sur­rounded it was string of perfectly-matched pearls, much like the ones worn by her mother, Honey Berlin: Din­ners with the Duke and Duchess of Wind­sor, dresses designed by Madame Gripoix in Paris, […]

What with Lon­don Fash­ion Week afloat, I’m a lit­tle behind, and try­ing des­per­ately to keep up. Work keeps get­ting in the way (and in light of what’s going on on Wall St., I count myself lucky to still be writ­ing). I am await­ing the last notes to come in so that I can put my […]

Today’s Oscar de la Renta Spring ’09 show summed up what an deft designer can do– cre­ate a look that is not only and man­i­fest in its com­plete­ness but every ele­ment cho­sen is ear­marked with his/her DNA. Style.com’s Nicole Phelps offered a word of advice to the cou­turier in how to edit clothes, that were […]

A bril­liant show at Marc Jacobs’ Spring ’09 –full of spec­tac­u­lar frocks, which is the per­fect word to describe them –and great jew­elry that com­pli­mented each look with sur­gi­cal, yet sar­to­r­ial, pre­ci­sion. Those bold bracelets he showed with flour­ish, stack­ing them up the arm so that they cov­ered the wrist like shirt cuffs, thereby making […]

After all the edi­to­r­ial chat­ter about jew­elry for Fall ’08, I was look­ing for­ward to see­ing how design­ers would inter­pret it for the warm weather when there is plenty of skin bar­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. I don’t like to be neg­a­tive at the get-go, how­ever the first cou­ple of shows weren’t promis­ing. In fact, the jew­elry, if […]