So the mys­tery of my absence from the blog last week may now be solved: I was work­ing on an exclu­sive story for Elle.com’s new chan­nel. The launch will take place this week and when my story goes live, I’ll post a link. I had the oppor­tu­nity to work with Exec­u­tive Acces­sories Edi­tor, Kate Davidson […]

Chanel cou­ture Fall 2010

here.

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? […]

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 […]

Before I visit NY Fash­ion Week I want to men­tion the Anto­nio Pineda ret­ro­spec­tive enti­tled, Sil­ver Seduc­tion, that will show at the Museum of New Mex­ico from June 4, 2010 through Jan­u­ary 2, 2011. If you aren’t famil­iar with Pineda’s immac­u­lately exe­cuted work,  then per­mit me to intro­duce you to a bril­liant Taxco designer whose […]

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)

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, […]

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 […]