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Chanel Fall 2010: The Iceman Cometh

March 11th, 2010

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?

Academy Awards 2010: I Want to Thank WABC and Cablevision…

March 8th, 2010

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 […]

The Art Influence

March 4th, 2010

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 […]

Can Jewelry Be Reasonably Priced **and** Well Crafted?

March 1st, 2010

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 […]

Glass, as Gem and Poetry

February 26th, 2010

The cat­a­log, Enam­els of the World, is for any­one who has admired the textile-like and gem­stone effects recre­ated in the enam­eled jew­els and objet d’art of  Peter Carl Fabergé, Rene Lalique, and Cartier, and of course, the pan­theon of enam­elist– jew­el­ers who fol­lowed in their foot­steps.  The New York Times’ Vic­to­ria Gomel­sky wrote a superb […]

Me on MARTHA: The Video

February 10th, 2010

To see my Roman­tic Jew­elry seg­ment on MARTHA, please click here.
You may also watch any of the other seg­ments and/or view the show in its entirety (FYI: all of Martha’s guests, myself included, share a spe­cial Valentine’s Day mem­ory at the very top of the hour)

More About Victorian Jewelry…

February 8th, 2010

Please note: The jew­elry that was part of my seg­ment on MARTHA is for sale at the fol­low­ing gal­leries in New York:
–Pri­mav­era Gallery
–Kentshire Gal­leries
–Doyle and Doyle
Con­tact infor­ma­tion for these anti­quar­ian retail­ers is listed here.

Tiffany & Co. (Amer­i­can, 1837-present), Pauld­ing Farn­ham (Amer­i­can, 1859–1927), designer.
Iris Brooch, (Pink tour­ma­lines, green gar­net, plat­inum, c.1900–1901). Pri­mav­era Gallery, NY
Photo: Howard Agriesti, […]

Spring Couture 2010: Chanel and Dior — Jewels of Sighs

January 30th, 2010

Sorry about the no-show on Thurs­day and Fri­day — I’m back down from the clouds, rested, and feet planted firmly on the ground. Thank you for your patience.

In review­ing the images from the Chanel and Chris­t­ian Dior Spring Cou­ture 2010 shows, the most appar­ent design schematic for jew­elry was pro­por­tion. It seemed that Karl Lagerfeld […]

Golden Globes 2010 Jewels: A Show of Restraint

January 18th, 2010

It was clear from the sparingly-applied orna­men­ta­tion that the peo­ple of Haiti were on the minds of Golden Globe atten­dees last night. And if you haven’t yet given what­ever you can to the Red Cross or any one of the emergency-relief orga­ni­za­tions seek­ing imme­di­ate fund­ing, please do! They need it most urgently now. Make this […]

Golden Globes Pre-Game

January 13th, 2010

Gear­ing up for the Golden Globe Awards this Sun­day night, jew­el­ers, such as the haute house of Cartier, are cater­ing to Hollywood’s A-list. Up In The Air’s Anna Kendrick was get­ting the star treat­ment and try­ing on a
num­ber of rock-em/sock-em gems that would eas­ily knock-out the com­pe­ti­tion (and let’s not fool our­selves into thinking […]

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