So the mys­tery of my absence from the blog last week may now be solved: I was work­ing on an exclu­sive story for Elle.com’s new chan­nel. The launch will take place this week and when my story goes live, I’ll post a link. I had the oppor­tu­nity to work with Exec­u­tive Acces­sories Edi­tor, Kate Davidson […]

Chanel cou­ture Fall 2010

The New York Times and The Inter­na­tional Her­ald Tri­bune are sep­a­rately fea­tur­ing sto­ries by Suzy Menkes about couture-level, or neo-couture level design­ers, who are work­ing the mid­dle ground: Jil Sander, for Uniglo and Olivier Theyskins, for The­ory. The lat­ter was a new announce­ment. The ded­i­ca­tion of design­ers, both of which have worked at the high­est level […]

Since Father’s Day is close at hand, I am feel­ing sen­ti­men­tal. My Dad, who was one of the sweet­est, smartest, most gen­tle souls you’d ever met, is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. I’ve been search­ing for a way to re-connect to him, and given the sit­u­a­tion, that means being a lit­tle bit creative […]

With inspi­ra­tion at low ebb this week, not even Cannes put a smile on my face, the red car­pet was ele­gant yet so stilted and over­wrought. On a lighter note though, I was invited to an after-party for the SATC 2 pre­miere next week. Sounds like fun. Can’t wait to check out all the glitteratti […]

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I adore an anklet in sum­mer, how­ever, I think that this one will do year-round. Crafted of solid gold and set with dia­monds and rubies, this nineteenth-century exam­ple was worn for cer­e­mo­nial dis­play when pre­sented at court (Maharajah’s put their best foot for­ward — the right — on these occa­sions). To wear one rep­re­sented a […]

*Flow­ers seem intended for the solace of ordi­nary human­ity.  ~John Ruskin
*With daf­fodils mad foot­notes for the spring,
And asters pur­ple aster­isks for autumn -
~Con­rad Aiken, Pre­ludes for Mem­non, 1930
*I’d rather have roses on my table than dia­monds on my neck.  ~Emma Gold­man
Ah-hem…Ms. Gold­man, let’s not rush to judg­ment, shall we?. What if those dia­monds were the stigma, […]

Within the last half hour of writ­ing this post, pure gold was aloft at $1091.90 per ounce, and that num­ber is at a six-week low. Even at this cur­rent price, gold and the fab­u­lous jew­elry made from it comes at the cost of a pretty penny. What’s a girl to do in this economy…go without? […]

There will be an exhi­bi­tion begin­ning on March 18 at Aaron Faber Gallery in New York enti­tled Work­ing in Metal: Three Women, and it is a focused look at the jew­elry of Glenda Arentzen, Syd­ney Lynch and So Young Park. All of these arti­sans are highly accom­plished, Arentzen’s work is in the Museum of Art and […]