Things have been a lit­tle rough around here, hence my recent attrac­tion for Dara Dubinet’s raw stone designs. Accord­ing to her press, she has stud­ied the art of Feng Shui at the Black Hat Tibet­ian School where she learned the restora­tive power of gem­stones. Which ones cure a head cold? Would love to know.
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Last week’s Met Gala at The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art in New York was its usual photo-op affair for celebri­ties and mod­els, with empha­sis on those taller-than-thou since they were the focus of the new exhi­bi­tion, Mod­els as Muse: Embody­ing Fash­ion. Vet­eran designer and model men­tor, Azze­dine Alaia, was not included in the show and […]

Note: This is a long post, and my last until next week — I’m off to Jack­son, Mis­sis­sippi where I will be lec­tur­ing and book sign­ing (see Upcom­ing Events below for details). If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello when I’ll be sign­ing my book at Juniker Jew­elry.
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Pretty pink paper-chains on the Louis Vuit­ton run­way last week in Paris. Mais, c’est un papier lune, Mon­sieur Jacobs…oui? Paper — pli­able, light, communicative…what else do you know that has such sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics? Jew­elry that looks like it came from the stuff of trees, or even recy­cled news­pa­pers; the con­cept has inspired stu­dio artists. There […]

Circa 1980, gold and dia­mond “rivet” bracelet (pri­vately owned), visit www.chartreusenewyork.com for other great exam­ples!
There was a lot of bow­ing at the alter of the 1980s in Paris this past week. Well…if we are look­ing back to the era of the strong shoul­der and glitz, there is some­thing to be said about the jew­elry too. […]

And now for some­thing com­pletely different…London Fash­ion Week. With all the incred­i­ble stu­dio jew­el­ers in Lon­don, it would seem to be a nat­ural fit for British design­ers to really per­son­al­ize their looks with a few well cho­sen, or even custom-made, items. Not sure why more of them don’t — there was very lit­tle by way […]

The jew­elry designer, who is know for his use of pure (24-karat) gold in his antiquity-inspired pieces, has now taken a shine to ster­ling sil­ver. The new designs are quin­tes­sen­tial Gurhan in fla­vor and approach; sil­ver is used both dark­ened and bright, either oxi­dized or rhodium-plated black (which gives the piece a gor­geous fin­ish), and […]

If the reces­sion has done one thing, it has piled enough “manure” on the old “it’s-about-me” busi­ness model to bury it. In its place, though, is now fer­tile soil for a new par­a­digm to grow and get a healthy start. Coop­er­a­tion across and between related indus­tries sim­ply makes entre­pre­neur­ial sense; there is power in numbers […]

Toby Pomeroy’s Eco-Gold and Sil­ver lines are hav­ing a hol­i­day moment at Aaron Faber Gallery this week. The pieces have a pris­tine sil­hou­ette and what the designer refers to as a “forged” (ham­mered) look. Accord­ing to the designer, each item is made in his Ore­gon stu­dio from one-hundred per­cent reclaimed metal of 14K-, 18K-gold […]

Yes­ter­day I attended the pre­view of Van Cleef & Arpels’ newest col­lec­tion, Les Jardins (The Gar­dens) at The Plaza in New York. The designs are inspired by our response to nature, and are divided into four sep­a­rate land­scape gen­res. The col­lec­tion is a panorama of skill and inge­nu­ity, and show­cases what VCA does best.
Jardin de la […]