These jewelled baubles include the luxurious Tahitian pearl, crystal encrusted disco balls and star-studded orbs. ‘Pin-Ups’ to ‘Riveria Lights’ these beauties are the business.
These jewelled baubles include the luxurious Tahitian pearl, crystal encrusted disco balls and star-studded orbs. ‘Pin-Ups’ to ‘Riveria Lights’ these beauties are the business.
Zac Posen chose to accessorise his showgirl-inspired Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show with feathers, black lace, fur and none other than the chainmail glove that reappeared as the ‘choix du jour’ throughout his Paris debut. Body Armour is, according to Li Edelkoort, global trend forecaster, one of the seven ‘most influential lifestyle trends’, and the [...]
VANDEVORST SPRING/SUMMER 2011 CATWALK SHOW Chainmail was seen on AF Vandevorst’s Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show and has been a longtime favourite of cutting-edge jewellery designers like Fannie Schiavoni; but with all the talk of ‘Chunky Knits’ this week and Jewellery Wear a couple of weeks back, it has got me thinking. The coif [...]
From the metamorphic carapaces of Shaun Leane’s collaboration with Todd Lynn, to the passion-inspired web of chain from MFPepe’s ‘Amore Los Une’ collection: jewellery is taking on an apparel-like quality, where the boundaries of adornment are challenged to the extreme in terms of our traditional understanding of jewellery as an earring, necklace or ring. Fannie [...]
Instead of manes of chain (which we featured in our ‘Hot to Trot’ week), are we going to get used to Spring/Summer 2011′s take on fringing in the form of a pom-pom? Giles’ and House of Holland’s take on the pastel-hued powder puff left us under no illusion that we were going to have to [...]
At the same time that Dolce & Gabbana showed it on the Autumn/Winter 2010 catwalk in Milan, dangling across the svelte silhouettes carved out by the runway, the purse necklace was spotted at the Mawi A/W 2010 showcase at London Fashion Week last year. A nod to the romance of our Victorian past and, the [...]
This week is all about the influence of media on fashion and how we wear it. I always look to the Silver Screen and High Street for fashion direction. After two trips to Oxford Street this week and watching the latest episode of ‘Mad Men’, I am more convinced than ever that not only are [...]
Who would have thought that frocks and tops would feature in our A/W 2010 preview that focuses on jewellery trends and style? This season we see jewellery taking on a new dimension and hailed as the object of desire for printed garments from High Street to Couture. Mary Katrantzou had our tongues wagging during her [...]
Move over Alice in Wonderland, there’s a new (diminutive) muse in town! Thumbelina is a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl who emerges from a tulip, and goes on to have many adventures. At Christian Dior’s A/W 2010 showcase, the models could have been stepping out of the pages of the fairy [...]
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