Alber Elbaz showed the Lan­vin Spring 2012 today. Jew­elry for Lan­vin is always on the agenda and the iconog­ra­phy he chose for the run­way spoke of faith (cru­ci­fix) and power (eagle). There were also choker-length jew­eled neck­laces and what appeared to be bold gaspipe-like fit­ted col­liers — retro­mod­erne yet con­tem­po­rary. The short lengths in the […]

Color will have a global moment next spring. Milan Fash­ion Week, Spring 2012 gave us beau­ti­ful bold shades that brought a play­ful­ness to the clothes and gave woman new choices in acces­soriz­ing. While bracelets are fashion’s default embell­ish­ment, and Armani’s translu­cent arm candy in pale pas­tels won me over, it was the ear­ring that felt […]

Today’s post was inspired by sev­eral sources. One was Dame Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor, whose jew­elry and cloth­ing are going up on the auc­tion block in Decem­ber. The other was color — NYFW saw bejew­eled hard­ware that min­gled, mixed, and matched with the sar­to­r­ial soft-wear on every run­way. I have a the­ory that every new sea­son is […]

The Twit­ter play by play on the red car­pet last night was fun to par­tic­i­pate in, how­ever there was not a lot to report, either in terms of jew­elry trends or inno­v­a­tive looks. Sim­plic­ity ruled the evening, and almost every­one from host Jane Lynch to the new cast for Charlie’s Angels turned down the volume […]

Any­one who has been fol­low­ing the run­ways this past week knows we are going chameleonic next spring with acces­sories. What does that mean exactly — do we have to buy all new baubles to work with our new dresses? Not really, and yet, maybe. While many of the neck­laces and cuffs were color coor­di­nated with […]

Today I went to the press pre­view for a new exhi­bi­tion open­ing at the Bard Grad­u­ate Cen­ter in New York: Hats, An Anthol­ogy By Stephen Jones. The show will open this Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2011 and run through April 15, 2012. The exhi­bi­tion is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Vic­to­ria and Albert Museum in Lon­don and […]

The end of August was inter­est­ing: our eldest son moved to NYC, the earth shook (I was dri­ving dur­ing it and never felt a thing), our mid­dle son left for his first year at Bing­ham­ton Uni­ver­sity, and a hurricane/tropical storm blew in and blew out our power for five days. Oh, yes, and I had […]