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 […]

You can tell that I’m cur­rently work­ing on a book, no? In the first few days of Fash­ion Week, I was begin­ning to think that there would be only a sin­gle post — there was so lit­tle jew­elry to speak of and very many coats to cover up every­thing else. Here in the North­east, after this, […]

On Fri­day, I made a pil­grim­age to the Miriam Haskell show­room where I met Gabrielle Fialkoff, the Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of the com­pany. The show­room itself is Mecca. I came this­close to hun­dreds of their vin­tage fil­i­gree find­ings and even closer to the newest col­lec­tions, which are a spec­tac­u­lar dis­play of Amer­i­can cos­tume jew­elry design […]

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Ongo­ing through tomor­row is The Inter­na­tional Fine Art & Antique Deal­ers Show is at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. An inti­mate dis­play of dec­o­ra­tive arts, fur­ni­ture, and jew­elry, much of the finest cal­iber, the show was rather quiet on Mon­day when I strolled in. I stopped by at Kentshire’s booth and found this […]

Skin­ner Boston is gear­ing up for a spec­tac­u­lar auc­tion of vin­tage Miriam Haskell. I’ll have more infor­ma­tion about the jew­elry as the sale date approaches. These fab­u­lous images should give you some­thing to dream about until then…

Armani’s show in Milan enveloped the world in the Mediter­ranean sap­phire of a shim­mer­ing sea and the deep navy cloak of mid­night. It was very blue, and all con­sum­ing. High­light­ing the clothes were neck­laces and ear­rings, or should I say ear­ring — the mod­els were styled wear­ing only one — in oppo­si­tion to the large […]