COLLECTING

Whenever I cover the antique and period jewels from S.J. Phillips in London, I am like a kid in a candy store— I don’t know what to look at first. My eyes try to focus on the sheer wonder of it. But the magic of S.J. Phillips Collection of Jewels from Portugal  left me breathless,…

  Opening Image (Daisey Fellowes Tutti Fruitti Necklace, 1936 (Photo courtesy of N.Welsh Cartier Collection ©Cartier After writing about the Cooper Hewitt Exhibit, The Jazz Age: America Style In The 1920s, I thought it only befitting to follow it up with a story of the jewels most characteristic of the Art Deco movement. The great…

  Everything’s coming up florals in ready-to-wear and couture, as seen during the spring/summer 2017 and fall/winter/2018 runway shows. Designers feature styles from garden varieties to exotic wild flowers in silhouettes that range from streamlined to flowing and feminine. But fashion creators aren’t the only ones firmly planted in botanicals — independent jewelry designers and…

Every five years or so, I take stock of my life. At 50, I was concerned with fitness, health, and the trials and tribulations of dating ‘again’ after the break-up long-term relationship. Today, as a 55 year-old single woman, author and sole business owner, I looked around my Manhattan Lincoln-center area rental apartment and when…

[slide-anything id=’3502′]   By Hans Gschliesser In homage to all of you jewelry possessed women waiting for their next fix—here is a story of how I became obsessed with the unexpected gift of an 18k rose gold vintage 1940s Elgin watch. Before receiving the gift, I had never been a man who wore jewelry, not…

Dressing up the ear and gracing the neck with stand-out pieces proved to be the predominant trends on the red carpet and international ready-to-wear runways recently. But the streamlined elegance which set Priyanka Chopra apart from her peers at the 2017 Oscars, when she wore two Lorraine Schwartz wide platinum lavender and diamond bracelets on…