Enti­tled Together/Apart, Aaron Faber Gallery’s newest exhi­bi­tion brings the cloy­ing taste of the suite to its sac­cha­rine end. The pre­sen­ta­tion is on view until Novem­ber 30, 2008. This idea of coor­di­nat­ing three or more pieces of jew­elry, which is the def­i­n­i­tion of a suite — or parure (tech­ni­cally this term indi­cates four or more kin­dred ornaments), […]

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. […]

Yes­ter­day Sotheby’s New York sold a great piece that rep­re­sents all the rea­sons to love con­vert­ible jew­elry. This divert­ing exam­ple is a gold, cit­rine and dia­mond clip/bangle made by Cartier Paris, circa 1940. As you can see in the image below, the cen­tral motif sep­a­rates from its base and can be worn as a pin. […]

What with Lon­don Fash­ion Week afloat, I’m a lit­tle behind, and try­ing des­per­ately to keep up. Work keeps get­ting in the way (and in light of what’s going on on Wall St., I count myself lucky to still be writ­ing). I am await­ing the last notes to come in so that I can put my […]

Today’s Oscar de la Renta Spring ’09 show summed up what an deft designer can do– cre­ate a look that is not only and man­i­fest in its com­plete­ness but every ele­ment cho­sen is ear­marked with his/her DNA. Style.com’s Nicole Phelps offered a word of advice to the cou­turier in how to edit clothes, that were […]

A bril­liant show at Marc Jacobs’ Spring ’09 –full of spec­tac­u­lar frocks, which is the per­fect word to describe them –and great jew­elry that com­pli­mented each look with sur­gi­cal, yet sar­to­r­ial, pre­ci­sion. Those bold bracelets he showed with flour­ish, stack­ing them up the arm so that they cov­ered the wrist like shirt cuffs, thereby making […]

When I received an email today inform­ing me of the launch of Dean Har­ris’ new jew­elry col­lec­tion for Tar­get, I logged on with reserved expec­ta­tions. Their past offer­ings have been uneven in terms of style and qual­ity. Har­ris is a self-taught jew­elry designer and as it would seem from his bio, very much a fashion […]

The Duchess with Keira Knightly as the long-suffering-but-simply-grand Geor­giana, Duchess of Devon­shire will offer up a rare glimpse of late eighteenth-century glam­our. The Duchess, who wielded unusual polit­i­cal power, was con­sid­ered a great beauty and “the Empress of fash­ion her­self”. Her mar­riage was a com­plex state of closed doors and open secrets. She was known […]

Sep­tem­ber with its balmy nights and Indian sum­mer days will bring more than a change of sea­son to The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art in New York; there will be a whole new way to do time there. Refined, dis­tinc­tive watches with a Parisian flair or tra­di­tional Eng­lish faces will be the focus of the Met […]

Gucci designer Frida Gianni took the look back to the 1970s for the Resort ’09 col­lec­tion. All the sil­hou­ettes were inspired by fash­ion icons of the time: Tal­itha Getty, Lee Radzi­will and Jane Birkin. Min­i­mal­is­tic long chains were shown on the run­way. Still, I couldn’t help but think that vin­tage Bul­gari would really under­score the […]