It’s get­ting noisy around here. Yes!!!! (fist pump) Our home is ring­ing with laugh­ter, busy with hus­tle and bus­tle, doors revolv­ing from com­ings and goings, and the greet­ing of arrivals, and still more arrivals. This is more like it! Happy Thanks­giv­ing! Our now much too quiet house has been dif­fi­cult to get used to since […]

In Paris, slith­er­ing ser­pents and the dan­ger­ously and toothy remains of sea crea­tures have been seen on the run­way. Funny, both are very Vic­to­rian themes blown up into mod­ern day pro­por­tions: Andrew Gn took a more lady-like approach to col­or­ful jew­elry. Loved the sim­plic­ity of this look. One to emu­late in a few months time:

It’s bru­tal in New York. Push­ing around more hot air, even in a blog post, just isn’t cool so this one is short and to the point. Trolling the web today, I was struck by how some women wear jew­elry so well, even in the movies. Think of these images as my en plein air […]

The Cou­ture Fall 2011 shows are exhibit­ing now and out of the gate comes designer Giambat­tista Valli with bejew­eled and gold belts. There is no mis­tak­ing that his state­ment is meant to be more orna­men­tal than sar­to­r­ial. The look reads friv­o­lous rather than cinch­ing by neces­sity, or by tai­lored fin­ish­ing. The focus is placed at […]

Fringe has been around the jew­elry block since antiq­uity and fash­ion, that turn­stile of trends, is invit­ing the bare skin of sum­mer to flit, ruf­fle, drip, and dan­gle with this flir­ta­tious fin­ery: Kentshire Gal­leries Kentshire Gal­leries Kentshire Gal­leries Aaron Faber Aaron Faber Gallery Astali Update 6:21pm: I’ve just been asked to speak again at The […]

Yes, ten days is too long between posts, in case any­one was count­ing. I’ve been a busy, busy, per­son of late. I did a voice over for a web mag­a­zine this week, and believe it or not, I also had a cou­ple of very inter­est­ing job inter­views. I can’t say who, what, or when, however, […]

On April 29, 2011, Great Britain’s Prince William will marry Kate Mid­dle­ton. Hats will be worn — lots and lots of them. If there was ever a cel­e­bra­tion for cha­peaux of all types, sizes, and imag­i­na­tive shapes, this occa­sion will be the high­light of the cen­tury. I love hats and yes, I wear them too. […]

Update 3.11.11 — Prayers for the peo­ple of Japan, and for those on our own shores. If you want to help, please donate to the Amer­i­can Red Cross. I did as soon as I heard the news. Ah, Paris, where fash­ion and jew­elry are just…killer? Naughty, or intim­i­dat­ing? Jean Charles de Castel­ba­jac sent down the runway […]

As I did for the Golden Globes, I’ll review the best bits only. Oscar win­ner Colin Firth’s wife, Olivia Firth, tweeted ear­lier in the week that she would be wear­ing the very first fair­trade, fairmined, and eco­log­i­cally cer­ti­fied gold jew­elry to the Acad­emy Awards. Her cock­tail ring and ear­rings, designed by Anna Lou­cah, were set […]

The last days of New York Fash­ion Week, Fall 2011, pre­sented a mixed bag of bejew­eled tricks. Donna Karan took her fab­rics col­ors from pearls, and Erick­son Bea­mon cre­ated the jew­elry for her show. Didn’t love either frankly. The drap­ing in the cloth­ing was amaz­ing, how­ever the styling of the jew­elry and  hair was so […]