Archive for November, 2009

Who Isn’t Designing Jewelry These Days?

November 28th, 2009

With all the celebri­ties design­ing jew­elry, it’s eas­ier to list those who haven’t thrown their name in the hat that those who have. Among the glit­terati design­ing the glit­ter are: Ali­cia Keyes for The Barber’s Daugh­ter, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for Asprey, Nicole Richie for Bebe, and Sharon Stone for Dimi­ani. Now I did […]

Considering Copper

November 21st, 2009

I’ve been con­sid­er­ing ways to warm up the black I’ve reverted to since the econ­omy has taken us south. I know, I know, it’s more about color these days, or so says Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, InStyle, Allure, W — I read them all, I do. However…or, what­ever, I’m back to black. Paired with copper, […]

Embracing The Slithering Serpent

November 16th, 2009

The Jolie/Pitt/Asprey col­lab­o­ra­tion is mak­ing head­lines today. At the cen­ter of the col­lec­tion is a crea­ture that is both reviled and revered — the snake. Jolie, from the lit­tle that can be gath­ered from her pub­lic image and polit­i­cal lean­ings, appears to be a spir­ited per­son­al­ity, the kind that could pro­mote this slith­ery, leg­less, carnivorous […]

BULGARI, Between Eternity and History, From 1884 to 2009, 125 Years of Italian Jewels

November 13th, 2009

Most peo­ple remem­ber Bul­gari from the 1970s and ‘80s when the Par­entesi mod­u­lar line of jew­elry was first intro­duced. Author Amanda Triossi informs us that the line was the most copied jew­elry design of all time. It is sur­pris­ing how much the motif res­onates today, pos­sess­ing all the essence of its time and still invites […]

A Change of Season

November 9th, 2009

One of the lots from the upcom­ing Decem­ber 1, 2009 auc­tion at Christie’s. Things have been a lit­tle quiet here on the blog. I only posted once last week, and my writ­ing has taken on a slightly more social aspect. The sea­sons are chang­ing for me — I’m at work on a new book, a […]

Wallace Chan’s Debut at Brasserie Ruhlmann

November 4th, 2009

The phys­i­cal act of expe­ri­enc­ing the Euro­pean ambiance of ebonized wood and sepia-tones of Brasserie Ruhlmann and view­ing Wal­lace Chan’s jew­elry was a lit­tle like observ­ing the world through rose-colored glasses. You may not see every­thing clearly, but all within your altered gaze glows with a hal­cyon light. The women mod­el­ing Chan’s col­lec­tion couldn’t have […]