Last night I watched the movie, Bright Star, the Jane Cam­pion film about the rela­tion­ship between Roman­tic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. His let­ters and odes wax­ing his love for his “Bright Star” remained a mys­tery until eight years after Brawne’s death in 1865, as it was only then that his love let­ters to […]

Within the last half hour of writ­ing this post, pure gold was aloft at $1091.90 per ounce, and that num­ber is at a six-week low. Even at this cur­rent price, gold and the fab­u­lous jew­elry made from it comes at the cost of a pretty penny. What’s a girl to do in this economy…go without? […]

Clearly, Cather­ine the Great under­stood power. Even though it has not been proven if she had a hand in the assas­si­na­tion of her hus­band, Grand Duke Peter, grand­son of Peter the Great, her story reads as one of sur­vival of the fittest. What is well known is that the Empress  enjoyed the sov­er­eignty of jewelry; […]

There will be an exhi­bi­tion begin­ning on March 18 at Aaron Faber Gallery in New York enti­tled Work­ing in Metal: Three Women, and it is a focused look at the jew­elry of Glenda Arentzen, Syd­ney Lynch and So Young Park. All of these arti­sans are highly accom­plished, Arentzen’s work is in the Museum of Art and […]

It’s rare that we see a true mod­ernist state­ment on the red car­pet. Sculp­tor, artist, and jew­elry crafts­man, Alexan­der Calder, might be amused at the thought of the jew­elry he gave away as gifts and tokens of affec­tion (and on the rare occa­sion, com­mis­sioned) as being the bright stuff of red car­pet fare. Mr. Calder’s […]

Karl Lager­feld was feel­ing the cold — faux fur and tum­bled agates (or poured glass) col­lided,  sil­ver  ici­cles dripped off the neck in a frozen water­fall and bracelets were lay­ered with stone like sed­i­men­tary rock for­ma­tions. Brrrrrrrr…hot choco­late anyone?

For putting on the show well into the first hour! I was among the 3.1 mil­lion view­ers with­out the Oscar tele­cast and believe you me, I was scram­bling to find cov­er­age some­how, some­where, with­out hav­ing to drag my hus­band to a local bar with a satel­lite dish. I wasn’t rel­ish­ing the thought of hav­ing to […]

Art, in form or in sub­stance, is the cra­dle for fashion’s rev­e­la­tions. The run­way is a can­vas, sculp­ture, or gem of a designer’s inven­tion. Marni’s Con­suelo Cas­tiglioni took what looked like a hatch­ing egg, or a dinosaur’s ocu­lar cav­ity (and per­haps still, this could be another Avatar moment, a theme that took the run­ways by […]

Walked the Jew­el­ers of Amer­ica Show yes­ter­day at the bustling Jacob Jav­its Cen­ter in NYC. The con­ven­tion cen­ter was host­ing two other exhi­bi­tions, The NYT’s Travel Show and The Inter­na­tional Restau­rant and Food Ser­vice Show. Need­less to say, it was a com­pletely fun day for those of us who can­not live on bread alone. So […]