This will be a new cat­e­gory of con­cepts that I will be writ­ing about inter­mit­tently in the com­ing months. These sto­ries will offer insight into the past while also reflect­ing upon the zeit­geist going on in fash­ion. Hope you enjoy the idea…please, let me know what you think.
Arts & Crafts jew­elry is hav­ing a kind of […]

Begin­ning March 1^st, the jew­elry rotunda at Bergdorf’s in New York City will be show­ing a new act, artist/artisan, Janis Pro­vi­sor. She is a wel­comed addi­tion to the ros­ter of stars that reside there: Siegel­son, Fred Leighton, Paul Morelli, Tony Duquette, Alex Sep­kus, et al.
Pro­vi­sor is a painter/print maker cum jew­elry designer, who started making […]

The title of today’s post is a bit deceiv­ing. Yes, last night there was a host of beau­ti­ful peo­ple at the open­ing cock­tail recep­tion of the 55^th annual Win­ter Antiques Show in New York. And yes, they were sip­ping cham­pagne and nib­bling on toast points, how­ever the glit­terati I’m speak­ing of were the fab­u­lous jewels […]

The numer­ous but­tons avail­able for Mr. Obama’s inau­gu­ra­tion are as var­ied in design as they are in the num­bers of peo­ple don­ning them today. It is a sin­gle moment in time when every­one wants to wear a pin. Although com­mem­o­rat­ing this impor­tant day for the United States isn’t new to those of us who […]

The jew­elry designer, who is know for his use of pure (24-karat) gold in his antiquity-inspired pieces, has now taken a shine to ster­ling sil­ver. The new designs are quin­tes­sen­tial Gurhan in fla­vor and approach; sil­ver is used both dark­ened and bright, either oxi­dized or rhodium-plated black (which gives the piece a gor­geous fin­ish), and […]

Leave it to Balenciaga’s Nico­las Ghesquière and Michael Kors to offer up a prac­ti­cal les­son in acces­soriz­ing with a sin­gle neck­lace. These images are from their pre-fall 2009 shows (all the images are from Style.com):
At Balen­ci­aga, Ghesquière took a shorter (I’m guess­ing about eigh­teen to twenty inches in length) gold chain link neck­lace and placed […]

After all the red car­pet pub­lic­ity dis­played in every fash­ion mag­a­zine, in terms styled by Madi­son Avenue ad agen­cies, listed by the arm-length the celebri­ties who either bor­rowed or got paid to wear items from houses like Fred Leighton, Neil Lane, or any of the ven­er­a­ble firms, who among you still believes that celebri­ties wear […]

Every­one is won­der­ing what Mrs. Obama will wear for the inau­gural balls and her husband’s Swearing-in Cer­e­mony. How­ever, not one edi­to­r­ial has inquired about her pos­si­ble choice of bijoux for these his­tor­i­cal and once-in-a-lifetime events.
While the Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion will mostly likely spend years pre­serv­ing these highly-anticipated frocks, the neck­lace, bracelet, ear­rings, or brooch (and […]

Happy 2009!
While away on hol­i­day in warmer climes, I did a bit of thrift­ing about, which means I went shop­ping — how­ever instead of walk­ing the ele­gantly appointed floors of Neiman Mar­cus, my nineteen-year-old son and I perused the dusty cav­erns of resale shops, antiques malls, and even a large, well lit, and quite […]