There is an inter­est­ing blog post dis­cussing antique paste jew­elry on The NYT The Moment. And yes, of course, I com­mented — see #9.

The Jew­el­ers of Amer­ica show at the Jacob Jav­its Cen­ter in Man­hat­tan is always a col­lage of influ­ences and a patch­work of pur­poses. It is in equal mea­sure bazaar, trade show, and parade of designer goods wait­ing for orders or edi­to­r­ial — whichever comes first. But some­times you dis­cover a dia­mond in the rough too.
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As I walked along sunny Fifth Avenue yes­ter­day, tourists from around the world chat­ted away in every lan­guage, and busi­ness­men slowed their quick­ened pace just to get an extra minute in the warmth before head­ing up to their air-conditioned offices. Buses lum­bered and taxis zipped by; a smil­ing face floats away and a blur of […]

Loved the way Armani took those metal-intense spheres and paired them with tex­ture (the beaded jacket) and color (amethyst-colored crys­tal) for his cou­ture Fall 2009 run­way.
New post on The Jew­elry Styl­ist. Next week: A new col­lec­tion from Van Cleef & Arpels…
Have a won­der­ful weekend!

What hap­pens when the fash­ion for state­ment jew­els retires to place where all trends are laid to rest, ie, the back of our clos­ets? We will need a new one won’t we? This image from the Armani Prive run­way is the har­bin­ger of things to come: blend­ing color, and yet the sparkle shines through. Above, […]

I’ve writ­ten a post about the exhi­bi­tion open­ing tomor­row at the Museum of Arts and Design for The New York Times’ blog, The Moment. Enti­tled, Glass­Wear, the show takes our per­durable per­cep­tion of glass in jew­elry and kicks it to the curb. Please give it a read, I’m really happy with how it turned out…

Cathy Horyn of The NYT inter­viewed Karl Lager­feld about his Fall 2009 cou­ture col­lec­tion for Chanel. In dis­cussing how he gen­er­ates inspi­ra­tion, the designer replied in his gal­lop­ing German/French inflec­tion that he lis­tens to music and spends much of his time alone — by choice.
“Yes, I’m soli­taire in the sense of a stone from Cartier […]

Who says an ele­vated look needs the gen­uine arti­cle? This is about extrav­a­gant exag­ger­a­tion and the need to undo the done-up.

John Galliano’s Chris­t­ian Dior show in Paris this week pre­sented a grand por­trait of con­tem­po­rary disha­bille: what is worn under and over. How women approach their clos­ets, in under­gar­ments or half-clothed, isn’t a new con­cept in fash­ion, still, doesn’t this per­spec­tive speak to the heart of any­one get­ting dressed in the morn­ing? If you […]