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 […]

Books make won­der­ful presents, espe­cially those that add a new facet of knowl­edge to Mom’s bur­geon­ing, or per­haps more advanced inter­ests. My book, BROOCHES: TIMELESS ADORNMENT, is a fab­u­lous gift for any­one who wants to know more about the styl­ish his­tory of this orna­ment — the best exam­ple of the jeweler’s art. It’s full of […]

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 […]

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 ongo­ing expan­sion of Jewelhistory.com is march­ing along. Well…not exactly march­ing, more like strolling. I’m delib­er­ately tak­ing time to think through each and every shift of pur­pose and sub­se­quent con­se­quence. Mea­sure twice, and cut once…right? Today is the begin­ning of a new cat­e­gory of posts that will fea­ture the voices of col­leagues who I have […]

Begin­ning March 1^st, the jew­elry rotunda at Bergdorf’s in New York City will be show­ing a new act, artist/artisan, Janis Pro­vi­sor. She is a wel­comed addi­tion to the ros­ter of stars that reside there: Siegel­son, Fred Leighton, Paul Morelli, Tony Duquette, Alex Sep­kus, et al. Pro­vi­sor is a painter/print maker cum jew­elry designer, who started making […]

Leave it to Balenciaga’s Nico­las Ghesquière and Michael Kors to offer up a prac­ti­cal les­son in acces­soriz­ing with a sin­gle neck­lace. These images are from their pre-fall 2009 shows (all the images are from Style.com): At Balen­ci­aga, Ghesquière took a shorter (I’m guess­ing about eigh­teen to twenty inches in length) gold chain link neck­lace and […]

For your enjoy­ment here are a few more images:

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 […]