Some fish bones for a collection of sustainable jewelry. There who likes it.
Hands up who is no friend of the environment, conducive to a sustainable ecological balance and friends jewelry world. That said, you are willing to wear a necklace made from fish bones? In short, to become for the jewels the same as are the vegans for the food? There are those who think (and appreciates) so: Poull Brien manufactures and sells sustainable jewels because they are made with fish caught in US waters through its fishing companies. Not long ago, Poull has convinced a designer, Melanie Maggio, to create a series of jewels composed with fish scraps: skin, teeth, bones and so on. These sea leftovers have become so necklaces, rings and earrings with Jacto brand. There are pieces in silver and brass, one-of-a-kind, which are certainly very environmentally friendly, even though they may at the same time appear as vaguely aggressive. They are made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings are priced from 85 to 500 dollars on shopjacto.com. Rudy Serra
The crystals Swarovski played by Jean Paul Gaultier.
Jean Paul Gaultier and Swarovski: marriage is not only in name but also in fact. The fashion designer, in fact, invents not only a collection for the Austrian brand of bijoux with his particular modern-romantic style (more modern than romantic), but has also designed new innovative forms for crystals of the Maison. Specifically, here is the Kaputt cut, available in four versions. The German word, which means “broken”, was developed by Swarovski technical team. Broken, in this case, means also unpredictable. It’s a stylistic rupture of symmetries, irregular reflections. In part, the crystals are frosted glass, and for someone with a vague aspect as a meteorite. Each crystal is cut by laser to achieve maximum accuracy and with engraved famous logo Jean Paul Gaultier. The green crystal and crystal effect Scarabaeus Scarabaeus Green Pearl were designed to complete the collection. The color is inspired by the verdigris roof of the Paris Opera House, and the glittering metallic luster green-blue-purple beetle, a once adored by the ancient Egyptians. Yet the impression is of a future-tech. Rudy Serra
Mayans silver made by Ayala Bar.
The summer collection of Ayala Bar has been called Maya, in honor of the ancient Central American people that has gone down in history for his truncated pyramids and its amazing astronomical calculation systems. Another thing know are the graffiti, they also have an appeal to those who are not of Pre-Colombian art expert. That must be the reason that prompted the Israeli designer Ayala Bar to be inspired by the disappearance of culture. Of course the compositions that form necklaces, bracelets and earrings are not exactly as Maya designs in the jewelry world. It is, rather, an allusion to the geometries and colors, the composition of the different elements that combine to complete the proposals of the designers. Cloth and silver, the main material for jewelry of that part of the world, are the main elements in the creation of the collection. Prices range from 93 euros for a pair of small earrings to 610 euros for a necklace with particularly elaborate pending. Giulia Netrese
The new collection of Yvona Christa NY VicenzaOro that will be unveiled in September.
In Glamroom zone of VicenzaOro September, the dynamic Swedish designer duo transplanted in the US who have given life to Yvone Christa New York, will present a new collection of jewelry. Theme of the collection are the flowers. As always, the brand interprets the idea of using the construction technique that prefers, and that is with a filigree work. Stones like amethysts or carnelian are color dots on silver worked into wires that are woven to form lightweight earrings, necklaces and rings. In some cases a pearl is used in a ring in place of a cabochon. The overall effect is a little ‘jewel of the grandmother with the subtle embroidery and pastel colors, but you can also go with a modern clothing, with a nice contrast.
Etro, Autumn 2016
In addition to producing fabrics, as well as offering collections of clothing, as well as bags, Etro put his signature also on a small fashion jewelry collection. What you see on this page are the proposals for Autumn Winter 2016. Founded in 1968, Etro has started widely especially as a company of high-quality fabrics, especially with the classic oriental paisley pattern. But the founder, Gerolamo Etro, also said Gimmo, has substantially left the helm in the hands of four children: Jacopo Etro, director of collections and leather accessories, and also the one that signed the jewelry, the creative director Kean, Ippolito, Director general, and Veronica in charge of the women’s line. The Maison from Milan has not yet launched a jewelry collection, but its bijoux are still interesting. They do not use precious materials, but brass, and synthetic elements such as acrylic. On the other hand they are very cool et not very expensive. Let’s go, then, take a look at bijoux Etro for late 1016. Lavinia Andorno
The next autumn Swarovski will make you see the stars. But there will be no need to use a telescope: space and planets are, however, the inspiration of the Crystal Galaxy jewelery collection, which is the main idea for the Fall / Winter 2016-17. The proposal of the Austrian brand embraces five different lines of jewelry, which all revolve around the same theme. Funk proposes pointy shapes jewels: the jewelry are made of pink gold PVD and rhodium metal. Flash is made with large circles symbolize the majesty of the planets, especially the rigid necklace, where three overlapping concentric rounds. The materials are PVD rose gold and pavé of transparent crystals. The Fun collection is characterized by shades of blue and blue, with rhodium-plated metal. the Foam collection: this too is inspired by the heavenly bodies, planets, stars and galaxies, is always in PVD rose gold. Finally, Crystalline Oval: is always part of the line, but it is a watch with oval case. The captions also find the prices. Alessia Mongrando
It is already time to think about autumn or, rather, to take a look at upcoming collections. Here, for example, there are the innovations signed by the American designer Michael Kors, as always produced by Fossil, holding the brand license for the jewelry and watches. The novelties are called fringes and crystals that characterize the Fall 2016 collection The fringes are used to a large IP Gold steel necklace (price: 149 euros) and a pair of earrings, always gold-plated steel (99 euro). Another new feature is the finish “sable” for some pieces, like a bracelet (price: 99 euros), while the inserts in black acetate are present as in past collections of the brand. The American designer has just opened a new flagship store in London’s Regent Street. Lavinia Andorno
The sunny side of Piaget
Piaget has chosen the fashion week in Paris to present a new collection of watches and haute joaillerie. The collection, in honor of the holiday season, was named Sunny Side of Life. The boiling collection is composed by 150 jewelry and includes necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings, cuff links, but also watches. There are also pieces very showy, like a rose gold necklace with tourmaline Paraiba weighing 7.84 carats. Will loved to all the earrings that are hanging on this part of the face by a thin metal hook: are made with white diamonds and pink tourmalines, more pink sapphires from Madagascar, for a weight of 4.58 carats. Other jewelry, etc. are more traditional, though always leave in awe, as the ring with emerald pear cut, surrounded by diamonds. Definitely different, however, the bracelet in white gold with blue enamel stains: this is also one of the sunny side of life. Alessia Mongrando
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Gioielli per l’estate, gioielli per la spiaggia, gioielli per il vento: nasce così l’idea di Windy, linea di bijoux firmata da Diva Gioielli, dedicata al Brasile. Non solo il Paese sudamericano ospita le Olimpiadi, ma è anche (pare) il luogo più ventoso del mondo o, almeno, così la pensano gli appassionati di windsurf e kitesurf. Ecco, quindi, i monili per veleggiare tra sabbia e onde, ombrelloni e lungomare: piume leggere e le gocce colorate assecondano il movimento del vento. Anche i colori sono quelli del Brasile o, meglio, della natura amazzonica, rivisti da Diva Gioielli, griffe Made in Friuli: collana extra long, bracciale rigido, orecchino che sfiora le spalle (singolo o in coppia) compongono la collezione estiva del brand. I prezzi dei bijoux sono abbordabili a tutti: dai 50 ai 100 euro circa. Giulia Netrese
Carolina Bucci, sex in the summer
About Carolina Bucci we have already spoken. Now the Florentine designer, very popular in the US and Britain, is launching a new collection: Recharmed. The idea is of jewelry that may agree with a summer dress, light-hearted, perhaps from the beach. A little ‘Coachella and a little’ Central Park, but also with discovery of some elements dating back to the past, unearthed in the family drawers, which in Florence is active from over a century in jewelery. The necklaces are long, with semi-precious stones, such as white agate, sunset pink stones, dumorite and beads 18K gold. The sequence of spherical elements is tailored to the nuances of color: coral red bamboo is combined with pink or cream-colored. Carolina Bucci came to prominence almost by accident “I designed the first true pieces whe i was student in New York,” says the designer. “I have not had a store and did only what I liked. But those pieces appeared in Sex and the City and my name has become known. A bit too fast to be honest. ” But, obviously, those who have chosen the pieces of Carolina for fiction has done a good choise. Lavinia Andorno
The Nature de Chaumet collection
The nature of a jeweler is to present the best you can do: the collection the Nature de Chaumet keeps this promise. The Parisian Maison, founded in 1780, draws on its history, but also to the natural elements such as leaves and flowers, ears of corn and small branches, to create a jewelry line devoted to the best and refined luxury. Small details of designs of the early twentieth century are taken and processed to transform the tradition in modern jewelry, but without losing the scent of history that remains behind the brand. Earrings in white gold, Paraiba tourmalines, garnets and diamonds, are used to evoke a springtime composed of refined precious metal combinations and stones, with thin stems supporting leaves covered by a paved diamonds, or pink pearls in shades with sapphires and spinels of the same color. Of note, if proof were needed, the convertible necklace that can be worn in three different ways. The Firmament Apollinien necklace, however, sports a powerful Burmese sapphire supported by a crown of leaves, the result of a virtuoso work of jewelery in white gold and diamonds. Federico Graglia
Chanel, harvest of diamonds
Few know that Gabrielle Chanel, founder of the homonymous Maison, was a woman who does not disown her peasant origins. Indeed, she had a way of expressing her passion for some rural symbols, as the sheaves of grain. Perhaps also because the collection of ears of wheat anticipated just her birthday, August 19. This rural atmosphere, transformed into jewels, now comes to the Ritz Hotel in Paris, in the Place Vendôme, with a surprise: a performance by Gad Weil, land artist, who brought a small cornfield in the “sacred square” of the jewelry. Inside the Ritz, however, the Chanel Suite shows an other suite, but jewelery, always inspired by the wheat, in gold, diamonds and precious stones. It is including the Fête des Moissons (feast of the harvest in French language), a necklace with fancy diamonds 25-carat yellow with an octagonal pattern, which alludes to the perimeter of the Place Vendôme and other 95 carats colored diamonds in various cuts, to compose the ears of corn. It is an extraordinary jewel composed of 1,200 diamonds weighing 120 carats. Who knows who will be able to afford such a gleaning. Margherita Donato
Pearls from Recarlo to Veronica
Pearls to Veronica from Recarlo. It is not a gift to a flame of the Maison owner of Valenza, but the name of the new collection that revolves around the pale fruit of oysters. Because the choice of the name has fallen right on Veronica is not known, but certainly the jewels that combine diamond with white or gray pearls can be loved by women with names that have initial from A to Z. Diamonds are made in different sizes are used like pieces of a mosaic that turns into flowers, stems or geometric shapes. In a sense, in contrast with the poise solitary pearl, which has a soft form by definition. The collection includes earrings and necklace in two variants: with de Austrialian or Tahitian pearls. The price is provided on request. Lavinia Andorno
New puzzle with Mattioli
Maybe do you want to do (or make to yourself) a gift. For example, a pair of earrings. Ok, but what color? Best to go on the classic yellow gold? Or choose a shade that goes with a particular dress? Yeah, but in this way then the earrings will stand not well with others … A question that Mattioli decided to overcome thanks to Kandinsky, Mondrian and Calder. Are the three artists, masters of abstract art, the inspirers of Puzzle collection. The idea is great fun: combine a pair of earrings, ring, bracelet or necklace with a whole palette of colors with which to transform the jewels. Wood and mother of pearl colored are the components of this gem composed of many elements that can be worn alone, or applied on a bracelet or necklace. There is also a version with paved white diamonds, or a gold version with small dangling earrings, as entry level. The design of the jewels of the collection is a reinterpretation of the historic line of jewelry designed in the sixties. An updated version of 2014 is on display at the Museum of Vicenza jewelery. Box Price: 900 euros. Lavinia Andorno
The water features by Alessio Boschi
There is all spirit of the Roman Baroque in Alessio Boschi necklace, dedicated to Piazza Navona. We saw it in Basel among Paraiba tourmalines, emeralds and white diamonds that evoke water features, palladium and gold rose that shape mythological figures. The jewel is an architectural and iconographic map, from small details, such as the rectangular plaque hanging from clasp which is like the square commissioned by Pope Innocent X, the area formerly occupied by the Emperor Domitian stadium.
The three blue baguette symbolize the three fountains, but also the three lilies of the Pamphili’s arms, the Pope’s family. On the right, after a succession of concave emeralds Zambia, Mozambique Paraiba tourmalines, white diamonds, here are the Tritons of the Moro’s Fountain, the one who is taming a dolphin and those with shell horns from which flows water. All figures are in palladium 950, and rose gold plated to bring out the plasticity of modeling, such as the mermaid and the god Neptune, the namesake fountain, represented on the left side. But it is in everything that revolves around the imposing Paraiba tourmaline 80.5 carat and cut into pillow, where the spirit of Woods coincides perfectly with the definition of the Baroque given by the historian Bruno Zevi: a free spirit and a creative attitude. Plus the overwhelming imagination of an artist jeweler like Boschi.
In fact, the composition revolves around the characteristics of transparency, the stone and the choice to build a narration even on the back of the gem: held by four figures who personify the four rivers of the homonymous fountain in the center of the square. Between the Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio de la Plata, the frame is engraved on the green background water of tourmaline with the shape of the obelisk, that in reality dominates the sculptural complex surrounded by lilies and a palm, elements of the Pamphili arms. In the same collection, inspired by the fountains, there is a ring with an extraordinary beryl as color and sheen and the Paraiba tourmalines degrade to represent the water foam. Two sculptural compositions, to see the wow effect look at them on Valeria Boschi. Monica Battistoni
Dml, the tradition continues
Luigino Dal Maso is a mature man, but preserves the diminutive: along with the name did not lose the style that characterizes Dml, acronym that condenses, in fact, the initials of the founder. The story is that of many other companies that make up the Italian jewelery market: the small workshop that specializes in time, enlarges customers, wins. It now has a name. Today Dml is a recognized signature for the choice of materials, the particularity of the gems in cuts and color matching. It is a Made in Italy that continues: the jewels are designed and produced exclusively in Italy by the agile hands of its artisans. They are real jewels: gold, natural and precious stones such as diamonds, sapphires and pearls, are used to create the collections, which include successful lines. A couple of examples are those evidenced by the pictures on this page: the Flowers and Gardens collections. In the first case they were used white gold and diamonds, but in sober shades of white and gray. In the second collection, diamonds and burnished gold accompany the topaz. Alessia Mongrando
Sicis plunges into Chinese legend
Sicis, Ravenna company that has made of technique of micro mosaic an art, loves to turn the spotlight on one piece at a time. In fact the jewelry that it shows, unique pieces, are to be observed more as art than craft products. After the necklace inspired by the Big Bang cosmic there is another valuable and imaginative jewel, this time linked to an ancient Chinese legend. In short, the story tells of a brave carp which climbed the falls of Dragon Gate, along the Yellow River, overcoming obstacles and evil spirits. The gods, impressed by such courage, they promoted the fish, transformed as dragon, a symbol of those who aspire to achieve great things and is not afraid to face the adversities of life. To this story is inspired by the Koi necklace, constancy and perseverance emblem. The jewel is entirely in white gold, while the line that draws a branch of coral is covered in Micro Mosaic, 14,69 carats of white diamonds and 13.84 carats of orange sapphires. There are also 7.08-carat of intense blue aquamarines. The necklace has also an amazing in the hidden side, the back side, made with iridescent nacre. Giulia Netrese
Double V for Versace
Right now the best friends of Donatella Versace they don’t have name Naomi or Giselle, but Virya and Vedana. But she are not models ready to parade on the catwalk of the winter or summer collections. They are, however, the names of the two collections of Versace Fine Jewellery, that arriving right when the new season starts. The Virya collection is made with very sharp geometric shapes, with the choice of using a cone from the blunt end, and with precious and semi precious stones such as diamonds, onyx, amethyst and citrine honey color: there is also the greek, the classic line that distinguishes for decades the proposals of the Maison, which is located in the lower part of the rings. The collection includes rings, necklaces. The Vedana collection has a different form, and consists of earrings and rings that hold small balls of colored stones cut in nine different sizes. The gold is pink or white, with small diamonds, and holds the jewel. Alessia Mongrando
Estate, vacanze, gioielli anti-caldo. Come quelli di Stroili: la nuova collezione Evanescence per la primavera estate 2016 è abbastanza leggera da non risultare fastidiosa anche con le temperature che si alzano, ma è abbastanza luminosa da gareggiare con i raggi del sole. Stroili, per la verità, evoca il lusso della corte di Versailles. Ma forse il re Sole che rimane più a portata di sguardo è quello che splende nei cieli tra giugno e settembre. E al posto dei raggi ha i fili diamantati che si riflettono sulla superficie lucida dei gioielli e ne aumentano la luminosità. Choker, orecchini, anello e bracciale sono realizzati con metallo rosato rendendolo curvo e quasi plissettato. I prezzi: il girocollo in bronzo bicolore 74,90 euro, gli orecchini pendenti in bronzo bicolore 49,90, l’anello in bronzo bicolore 29,90, il bracciale in bronzo bicolore 64,90. Lavinia Andorno
The Bliss dancing light
Moving light, reflections from the heart: the summer becomes shinier with Bliss, jewelery brand that is part of the Damiani Group and focuses on the concept of modernity and dynamism. The collection Moving Light plays on the glow of the diamonds, but also free to move within the architecture of the jewel: a way, in fact, to move the light. The collection consists of Bliss two necklaces with pendant in 18 kt white gold, with a moveable gemstone inside a heart-shaped or drop. It’s the result of the technique of free moving, which allows the diamond fluctuates every little movement of the wearer and thus multiply the reflections. Drop and heart are available in two different ways: with or without diamonds pavé on white gold profile. Also prices are different: the heart without pavé diamonds 489 euros, drop without pavé diamonds 429 euros, while for the heart and drop paved with diamonds go up to 589 euros. Alessia Mongrando