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 […]

Jewelhistory.com is proud to announce the launch of our new styl­ist page. Just hit The Jew­elry Styl­ist link above, and you will be trans­ported to the page where advice, insight into new styling trends, and more are at your fin­ger­tips. Ques­tions, com­ments (con­struc­tive and polite, please), as well as appre­ci­a­tion is encour­aged!! Do you have […]

What was so right about the Fall 2009 Marni run­way in Milan (it’s Fash­ion Week there now) was not only the dusky palette and the emi­nently wear­able sil­hou­ettes, but also the jew­elry worn with it. Designer Con­suelo Cas­tiglioni bal­anced per­fectly the pro­por­tions of those floral-bead-and-chain neck­laces with the weight of her designs. Pair­ing jew­elry this […]

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 […]

What do we do with black? The myr­iad of choices makes it seem so easy to acces­sorize, but some­how when you are stand­ing in front of that mirror.…..well, I think we’ve all fought the good fight in the bat­tle of doubt, haven’t we? There are sev­eral ways to han­dle that dark can­vas — and you […]

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 […]

It must have some­thing to do with a nest egg. The one I wish I’d been smart enough to put aside since our 401(k) began to molt. Still, there I was review­ing the beau­ti­fully ren­dered work of British met­al­smiths, select­ing three images for my post today, when I real­ized I was in bird land. Self-taught and […]

Cash­mere is the new black in this year’s hol­i­day cat­a­logs. Sweaters, gloves, and hats in double-ply are pre­sented in the stores like fresh apples at the gro­cer; there they are, front and cen­ter, ready to be picked up and paid for. To all these sweet, prag­matic prof­fer­ings I reply with a heart­felt… Bah, Hum­bug! Jewelry […]

While tak­ing in the gor­geous foliage that New York is famous for in Octo­ber, be sure to spend a day in the city to see all the incred­i­ble jew­elry exhi­bi­tions that will be ongo­ing dur­ing the month. Begin­ning tomor­row at Aaron Faber Gallery and run­ning to Novem­ber 15^th is: From A to Zobel: 40 Years. […]

Jew­elry, that is…what were you think­ing? All those open neck­lines and bare arms leave the imag­i­na­tion open to sug­ges­tion. Mrs. Prada, who I have read is an avid col­lec­tor of jew­elry, gave us a gor­geous frame­work — per­haps delib­er­ately, per­haps not. How­ever, we can cer­tainly take licen­tious license, may we not? I’ve selected a couple […]