HOW TO WEAR

  (Reprinted in part  from my March 22, 2016 Article on Indesign.jewelry with updated info to launch a series  on bejeweledmag.com,   Not Your Grandmother’s Jewelry, which focuses on how to wear antique and vintage jewelry with a thoroughly modern attitude and vibe.) I am and have always been a fan of the brooch. I…

  Since her teen years, Diane Richardson, owner of the Chicago-based antique treasure trove, Gold Hatpin, has been smitten with the stories and the search of the rare find. She attributes her affinity for 19th and early 20th century jewelry to her grandmother. “I believe she planted the seed when she showed me a worn…

  If you haven’t inherited one from your grandmother or mother, received one as gift – or purchased one for yourself yet –the tennis bracelet is a go-to staple that you should consider adding to your jewelry wardrobe. In a time of hand bracelets, Wonder Woman cuffs, knuckle and multi-finger rings, this is a bracelet…

This article first appeared in Indesign.jewelry  on January 12, 2016—Bejeweled is republishing it to coincide with the reopening of the Cartier Mansion.  The love bracelet was one of the iconic pieces of jewelry that was designed and launched  at the Fifth Avenue Mansion. When Aldo Cipullo, a designer for Cartier created the Love Bracelet in…

Icons of style all had a way of wearing pearls, whether they were real, faux or combined. Who can forget Grace Kelly’s fit-and-flare dress with an elegant choker in Rear Window or Audrey Hepburn’s multiple strands clasped in front with a large brooch and cascading around her back in Breafast at Tiffanys? Jackie Kennedy’s way…