An updated version of the historic collection Vara signed Salvatore Ferragamo, with the use of blue chalcedony and quartz pink or white. Now the collection, launched last summer, is enriched with two new finery, with white agate and black onyx. Each stone of this line, which includes earrings, necklace with pendant with lobster clasp and gold bracelets pink, has a special shaped cut Vara, to remember the famous buckle created by Fiamma Ferragamo in 1978. Price of earrings: € 2,300 . Necklace or bracelet: 1,900 Euros.
On the tips with Stroili
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On the tips with Stroili. If you like classical ballet, if you are fascinated by the historical stage of La Scala in Milan, and if you’d wear a tutu, you’ll like two jewels signed by the largest chain of Italian jewelry. The brand is presenting the collection Miss Gold By Stroili. It consists of two jewels in the shape of dancers, made of yellow gold and cubic zirconia. The necklace and earrings inspired by the world of ballet are offered as a complement suited for the holiday season, when the music of works like The Nutcracker or Swan Lake by Ciakovsky are the soundtrack. Prices: a necklace with pendant in yellow gold and zircon costs 125 Euros. Earrings, always yellow gold and zircon, 145 euro. Giulia Netrese
A return to Tiffany. And the return it is, in fact, the historical collection «Please, return to Tiffany». Recently the Maison of New York has proposed in Italy two medals with silver bracelet, dedicated to Milan and Rome (https://gioiellis.com/omaggio-a-roma-da-tiffany/ and https://gioiellis.com/tiffany -bracciale-milano). But a few days ago on the site of the largest jewelry company, it appeared an large collection, inspired by the famous Tiffany key ring, introduced in 1969. “This stunning collection of jewelry, remember that there’s no place like Tiffany,” it is the philosophy of the brand. And here, then, medals, bracelets, earrings, as well as key rings: the theme is always the message “Please return to Tiffany in New York,” engraved in small or large fonts on the different pieces. We are spoiled for choice: the line is made up of over 130 pieces. For the most part, these jewelry is made with silver or gold, but is also used rubedo, a metal alloy introduced by Tiffany, which has a pink tint. It consists of a mixture of silver, gold and copper. They can be purchased online as well. Prices: from $ 150 silver earrings, to 3,800 for the bracelet in 18K gold. Giulia Netrese
Antonini Matera collection
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Antonini chose Matera. To the charming city carved in the rock, next European Capital of Culture (2019), is dedicated to the new line of jewelry of Maison. But, unlike the city-jewel of Basilicata, the jewelery of Antonini don’t need to be further exploited: it’s just their design, together with the care to make it, to make them valuable. The style of the new line is as the capsules Mosaici, and Extraordinaire Collection (https://gioiellis.com/extraordinaire-antonini), with a variant of cocktail ring, gold and stones set in a concave frame, style chevalier. Translated: rings clearly visible and with their originality. The surface of the ring is available in three variants of gold and diamonds engraved with a circle of diamonds, or fully pavé, even in the larger version. But there are also earrings and a pendant, in the same style of the rings. The collection is available with different finishes of gold: yellow polished, satin, gold and natural white. The stones used are white diamonds, cognac or blacks. It is a strange mix of simplicity and, at the same time, wealth. Another step forward in the new life of the historic Milan brand. Matilde de Bounvilles
If you love Tiffany and you are in London, New York or Tokyo, you have a unique opportunity: for the first time in its history (just 178 years), the Maison has worked with another store on a capsule collection. Are you surprised? But the initiative lasts only three months. The collection is called Out of Retirement. To sell the jewelry will be the boutique chain Dover Street Market: eight pieces taken from historical designs of Tiffany. How to say I’m not jewels that have ended their path, but they were simply been put on retire. And now they come back: they are from the old collections of Tiffany & Co. Blue Book of 1940, ’50, ’70 and 2000. Needless to say, you can’t feel the burden of age: they seem designed today. The idea is the design director Francesca Amfitheatrof, who worked with Dover Street Market chain to treat the collection. For the lucky women ones who manage to buy them, or they have some man giving a gift to them. Matilde de Bounvilles
Pythagorean Noor Fares
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Noor Fares is a designer of Lebanese descent. She was born and raised in Paris, and after she moved to London. If you are looking jewelry different from others and you like the geometry, Noor Fares is the right person. No coincidence that his first collection was called Geometry 101. Pendants, earrings and rings based on pure volumes, spheres that enclosed by virtual surfaces, bounded by straight lines. In short, the Pythagorean theorem transfigured for jewelry. Rock crystal and moonstone are tied with threads of gold, and diamonds pavé. The second collection of designer, Fly Me to the Moon, is made with pink agate worked to chisel, evolved into soft shapes, curves, like the wings that turn into earrings. Then, it followed by additional lines of jewelry, such as the collection Tilsam, with crystal balls surrounded by diamonds or colored sapphires. The new line by Noor is called Krystallos. Again the geometry is the founding philosophy, with inverted pyramids that become pendants and earrings, gold and small diamonds to seal the perimeter of the jewels. Matilde de Bounvilles
Francesca Mo goes in three
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The new collections by Francesca Mo, architect of Milan and designer with the nostalgia for the fragments of the past, like the stained glass made from frosted sand that were on the beaches. Here, then, the new collections. They are called Pop, Moody and Lilliput. Earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets are made of gold, silver, bronze, but not only. Each collection uses different materials: Pop, for example, color earrings square or round with plexiglass, wire gold 18k. Moody plays with the messages, like the rings Yes or No, with a rotating plate, for those who do not want to waste words. Lilliput, finally, is betting everything on minimalism. Prices. For the collection Pop: earrings with 1 symbol: 120 euro; earrings with 2 symbols: 180 euro; square earrings great: 150 Euros. Rings Yes or No: from 250 Euros (bronze and silver). Lilliput: (white gold or yellow gold) with 2 units: 120 Euros, earrings three elements: € 180; Earrings four elements: € 240; 5 elements: € 300, 6 items: € 360; 7 items: 420 Euros. Giulia Netrese
The hot ice by Van Cleef & Arpels
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If you want snow, you do not have to wait the sky, with fall of ice water crystals: Van Cleef & Arpels anticipates the winter with the Diamond Breeze collection. Dedicated to the cold weather, the ice and its reflections, this collection probably can enjoy you it even during the summer. Maybe if only to cooler those who wear this jewels. Which are (it’s easy to understand) made of diamonds, and set in white gold. The effect is that of precious crystals of snow or ice, such as the geometric embroidery that are formed with drops of water converted into snow or frost. Ring, earrings and a large necklace are all in classic shades of colorless diamonds and, of course, able to reflect the glare of light. Jewels that are perhaps the only ice able to heat over anyone.
Tiffany & Co. warms up its collections ahead of Christmas with an advertising campaign. With classic lines now renew and proposed again with some variations from from the director design Francesca Amfitheatrof. The three collections are Victoria Tiffany, Tiffany Bow and Tiffany Infinity. The images of the campaign, in black and white, have been interpreted again by the photographer Mario Sorrenti, with the help of stylist Tabitha Simmons. The idea is to represent the time of the gift, that summarizes the emotional familiar relationships. The autumn campaign had seen the sisters Dree Hemingway and Langley Fox, Crista Cober and Iman Hammam, model Doutzen Kroes with the son Phyllon. Tiffany Victoria consists flowers with diamonds marquise cut, while the collection Bow draws a thin thread with a knot, and Infinity is inspired by the symbol used in mathematics. Here are the pictures and prices.
Kate’s earrings are a clue?
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The jewelry worn by Kate Middleton, ever attracting attention. In some circumstances, then, this jewelry have special meaning. A few days ago, for example, the Duchess of Cambridge was to the charity gala held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London with flowered dress by Erdem. But, above all, with “historic” earrings. The jewelry, in fact, belonged to the queen mother, who has worn them even shortly before his death, in 2002. And, of course, as well as being noted for their preciousness, this earrings seem also launching a signal to the world, and the media in particular: Kate seems more and more a “queen in pectore.” These earrings, in fact, were inherited by Queen Elizabeth to her mother’s death and she no has ever worn it publicly. They are pending and compounds from diamonds and two large sapphires. The blue, on the other hand, is one of the favorite colors of Kate. Federico Graglia
Vhernier with titanium
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Titanium rings and earrings: Vhernier worked a year to before it could show the new jewels. Which have a special feature: they are also in titanium metal used as an alternative to the heavier gold (which remains available). The long study is due to the meticulous research of the good metal alloy. The result is jewelry always elegant, refined, with a modern geometry, but lighter. And wear big earrings from small weight is a dream that often arises at the end of an evening, when the jewelry made with the yellow metal begin to become uncomfortable. The titanium is used in the Volta Celeste collection, which consists of ring, earrings and pendant. Titanium is hidden under a blanket of natural sapphires red, blue, pink or cognac. The hard part, as well as compose patiently the pavé, was been find the natural stones of the exact same shade.
Another innovation of the Maison Venetian with roots in Milan concerns Eclisse, historical line of Vhernier. Now the collection is enriched with earrings and a titanium ring. Also in this case the lightness is a plus that adds to the quality of the jewel. And even in this case the quality of pavé (a specialty of the house) is remarkable. Finally, here’s another bang with bracelets Giunco, in pink or white gold, and a diamonds lines. These jewels do not hide inside a rubber band, but mechanically you can enlarge without effort, in order to make it easier to wear: a solution that is the result of the skill goldsmith.
Rosa in the round
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The deluxe bijoux by Rosa Castelbarco are enriched with round and oval. Alone or together, intertwined with each other, composing long and golden chains: the circles are a recurring motif of the young designer from Milan (https://gioiellis.com/rosa-nello-spazio). Each piece is gold plated silver, with different combinations: for example circles of different sizes, or oval alternating with perfect circles. The collection was born with the Sun model, created by a single circle. The necklace is composed of a long golden chain to which it is suspended a circle. The same design is used for earrings and bracelet. In this collection that rotates (it’s the perfect word) around a circle belong to different lines: Lou doubles circumferences and inweave. Zoe increase to three circles, two small and one large, with satin material. Lalla, however, is a line where circles and spheres are alternate, while Ada uses a oval smooth and satiny chain.
Precious emoji
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A necklace with emoji, the icons that express the moods, is not a masterpiece of jewelry. Yet it costs 3,695 Euros if you buy online at net-a-porter. The jewel is signed Alison Lou, brand directed by creative director Alison Chemla. The brand of fine jewelry is inspired by “the deceptive simplicity of modern communication.” The necklace is composed of a chain and nine smilies with colored enamel and 14K gold. But there are also earrings, bracelets and rings that follow the same philosophy: it use gold, enamel and stones to create jewelry inspired by the digital world, as the icons that are used to send text messages, WhatsApp or email. The prices are certainly not those of simples bijoux, but of real jewels of rank. Only that cater to an audience closer to the Millenials generation. Matilde de Bounvilles
Hawaii in three colors for Buccellati
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It’s difficult to say if in Hawaii the people wears earrings with complicated combinations of circles. Buccellati, in any case, since the Thirties proposes a collection that is based precisely on round twisted gold. The collection Hawaii, to which was added Honolulu, has become a classic of the Italian brand, but now has been repeated with variations in white and pink gold. Each piece, in short, can be selected in one of three shades. The circles are made with gold twined wire. This process has two effects: gives light reflections and a pleasant ringing sound when the jewelry is on the move. In the case of the necklace, for example, the bead cores are 0.6 mm thick and welded one by one by hand.
The winter of 2015-2016 by Dori Csengeri is fully dyed in blue. The Israeli designer of jewelry using a refined technique of hand embroidery offers Blue Glam collection which, as its name implies, uses a palette of shades that run around the same color. This fashion jewelery is to people who love jewelry definitely out of the ordinary, that fit the personality of those who adopt them. The style is vaguely ethnic, a little hippy, definitely handcraftly. Necklaces (his specialty), rings and earrings are made with fabrics, but also with cabochon crystals refined, pearls bohemian, shells, wood or metal lined in leather. Here are pictures of the collection. M.d.B.
Harry Winston on a lotus flower
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The lotus flower has inspired many jewelers and now Harry Winston, who recently opened a boutique in Rome (https://gioiellis.com/harry-winston-un-americano-a-roma) offers a collection inspired by the petals of the corolla most beloved in the East. La Maison American, specializes in diamond jewelry, has brought together so many gems in small figures reminiscent of the flower. The collection includes earrings, rings and a long necklace, with a pendent eight-pointed star shaped, and inside the petals of the lotus in a outline. The petals are formed by two brilliant-cut stones surrounded by a thin finishing in white gold. At the center of the flower is placed in a diamond brilliant cut larger. All stones are colorless and of high quality. Lavinia Andorno
In chains by Ralph Lauren
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Julianne Moore, winner of the recent Academy Award, has chosen to wear a watch and a ring of hig jewelry Ralph Lauren. The brand, in fact, for some time also has several lines of jewelry, with pieces such as those worn by the american actress for the parade of the collections for spring 2016 in Skylight Clarkson Square. In particular, Julienne he wore a ring-chain of collection Chunky, made in 18 carat white gold, with paved diamonds. The ring is part of a series of jewelry that, in fact, has had some success among the celebrities from the entertainment world. Here are pictures of the Chunky Chain collection, distinguished by generous measures of jewelry, in yellow gold, white or pink, signed Ralph Lauren.
Picchiotti emerald colour
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As we reported, Picchiotti, a leading brand of jewelery of Valenza, has focused on Hong Kong to present some of the most valuable pieces of its production (https://gioiellis.com/hong-kong-capitale-del-gioiello). As seen in the pictures, among the collections offered to Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair 2015 by the Piedmont firm showed three pieces of high level: a pair of earrings, a ring and a brooch made of emerald cut white diamonds and drop, mounted white gold. The brooch has the shape of a peacock, not infront view, but three-quarter view. The ridge is composed of fancy yellow diamonds. Matilde de Bounvilles
Back to basics, but with a look to the future: Ayala Bar, designer of Tel Aviv, since 1989 offers a colorful and intricate series of multi-material jewelry. Of course, each collection follows the same style, but with variations in form and color. Now Ayala aims for the new season the Classic collection, which looks back to the stylistic features of his first creations: jewels that resemble multicolored tapestry, with elements of cloth together with crystals and metal. Not ethnic jewelry (she is based on techniques known in the Middle East), but with a modern twist. The jewelry is made using glass and Swarovski crystals arranged in a mosaic-like technique, with the addition of beads, jet and crystals on the white brass. Each piece is made by hand, with small variations necessitated by the craftsmanship of the production. Even in this case of Classic Collection. M.d.B.
Jennifer Lopez wears Pasquale Bruni
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Jennifer Lopez choose the Italian jewelry designer Pasquale Bruni. In particular, to walk the red carpet at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival, which is svoto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, JLo chose earrings in rose gold and white diamonds and champagne collection icon Garland and rings in white gold and diamond line Secret Gardens. Garland takes inspiration from the movement of the flowers, a symbol of the Maison. The line of rings Secret Gardens is inspired by those green areas, invisible from the road, that are real jewels of Milan.