And now for some­thing com­pletely different…London Fash­ion Week. With all the incred­i­ble stu­dio jew­el­ers in Lon­don, it would seem to be a nat­ural fit for British design­ers to really per­son­al­ize their looks with a few well cho­sen, or even custom-made, items. Not sure why more of them don’t — there was very lit­tle by way […]

Whew! Thank good­ness. Between the reces­sion and the Golden Globes hide-and-seek chic, I wasn’t sure what to expect at this year’s Oscars. Last night’s Acad­emy Awards shone brightly on the red car­pet and in the Kodak The­ater. The pro­ces­sion, as well as the show itself, was more lumi­nous (and bliss­fully less bor­ing) than in years […]

This Sun­day night, Feb­ru­ary 22^nd, the annual parade of cou­ture frocks and fab­u­lous rocks will take place at the Acad­emy Awards. My jew­eler friends are wait­ing with baited breath to send me all the news once the red car­pet gets rolling. Watch care­fully this year and note all the great pieces that you love, I’ll […]

There will be no mis­tak­ing this jew­elry for fine, or even good cos­tume. This col­lec­tion for big box retailer, Tar­get, is cre­ated by the fash­ion favored design team of Karen Erick­son and Vicki Bea­mon, is, well, very, very…faux. Not that I was expect­ing any­thing less, how­ever I was hop­ing to see bet­ter crafts­man­ship (this stuff […]

No one rocks the run­way like Mother Nature. These col­ors are straight out of Fash­ion Week: Aegean blues, iri­des­cent pinks, clear oranges, and rainbow-flecked whites. And it’s all there in a sin­gle, scrump­tious spec­i­men of stone (say that three times fast). What causes that chimeric appear­ance is their unique abil­ity to scat­ter light within the […]

Elise Øverland’s run­way yes­ter­day fea­tured jew­elry cre­ated by artist Alexan­der Calder, gra­ciously loaned by his grand­son, Alexan­der Rower. Style.com edi­tor, Nicole Phelps, reviewed the show and iden­ti­fied the pieces as, “…Calder’s gold jew­elry.” Calder worked pre­dom­i­nantly in brass, and some­times in sil­ver, and infre­quently in gold. Not sure what what metal was used to produce […]

More col­lab­o­ra­tions to report, well, sort of, if you call unit­ing your frocks with a few pre­cious things from one of the most famous, albeit deceased, sculp­tors in the world. Rachel Roy’s run­way held a mir­ror up to fash­ion, lit­er­ally, with a neck­lace by Subversive’s Justin Giunta. The con­cept is com­mend­able. The exe­cu­tion is not. Awkward […]

I’ve called a per­sonal ban on heart jew­elry, heart-shaped boxes of candy, or red and pink bal­loons this year. Larry, my won­der­ful hus­band of twenty-three years, knows bet­ter than to rely on those old saws to woo me. Because they won’t. What I want is some­thing that will inspire me to write, to read, to […]

Even before the run­ways are stomped by long-legged, tiny torso’d beau­ties, Style.com is herald­ing the jew­elry trend that begun last fall. Col­lab­o­ra­tion is the word of the moment. The web­site bel­lowed this pro­nounce­ment like the ring­leader of the Big Apple Cir­cus: Style Notes: Fall Pre­view It Bauble to Replace Aching Void Left by Demise of […]

The ongo­ing expan­sion of Jewelhistory.com is march­ing along. Well…not exactly march­ing, more like strolling. I’m delib­er­ately tak­ing time to think through each and every shift of pur­pose and sub­se­quent con­se­quence. Mea­sure twice, and cut once…right? Today is the begin­ning of a new cat­e­gory of posts that will fea­ture the voices of col­leagues who I have […]