Fashion Blog

No matter how far one fashionista is concerned with modern politics her wardrobe however is always politically fashionable. As Anna Wintour said, looking at runway models you can always understand what is happening in the world. And that is true.

So, Kali Arulprgasam’s Super Fertile Cra$h Spring-Summer 2010 collection doesn’t surprise. It is inspired by financial crisis. Is it? I thought it is inspired by the US military politics. Nevermind. We have to listen to the designer.

Some years ago when Vivienne Westwood revealed her jewellery collectin of skulls and bones, everybody was literally shocked. Was she too brave or just crazy? None of those. She was just in time to realize the importance of punk, rock and how those two could turn 21 centruy fashion around. You may ask what about 1980s with their rock and punk style? 21st century rock and punk fashion is a whole new story. To cut a long story short: punk became chic, combined with death issue and outrages motives it’s very fancy and expensive at the same time. If you consider punk as 2$ t-shirt and old dirty jeans you’re so wrong! Golden bracelets with skulls, big rings covered with diamonds and Balmain jacket with Swarovski crystalls or a dress covered with chains- this is punk.

But my concern is about jewellery and some special pieces that I can’s stop admiring with. Mostly they are from Delfina Delettrez whose skeleton bracelet is still at the top of the most chic jewellery list.

Delfina’s jewellery is often compared to art-pieces created by Victoire de Castellane for Dior, but they definately have more links to real life than Victoire’s fantastic and at some point magic jewellery.

Some tips on punk style I just gave so it’s for you to decide whether it’s your style or not. If you’re not into punk you can just wear a black simple dress with this amazing necklace staying feminine and immortally beautiful.

There is always a heart for a girl or even many hearts. As we all know there is a key to any heart to hold it and stay in it forever. Tiffany&Co proves that there are also keys that one needs for her own heart or at least for her style.

Keys are a very popular jewellery tendency this fall. Started with Tiffany&Co it’s continued by smaller brands, although fashionistas have their passion for Tiffany as a trendsetter. Made of white, rose and yellow gold, silver, platinum and titanium, covered with diamonds or enamel they will be a perfect jewellery that doesn’t need any other elements to go with.

Tiffany keys are for sure not for opening men’s hearts but supposedly they will help a man to open your heart or just make you smile. Sometimes girl’s smile means a lot more than anything else.

Can you believe that this Solange Azagury-Partridge necklace on the picture costs $198,200? I assume that designer makes beautiful jewellery which is very trendy in fact. But does ths peace looks like expensive jewellery?

Does it look 1980 hundreds?

Henriette Lofstrom is an accessory designer based in London. In her works though you can still feel where she is originally from. Henriette is from Denmark. That’s why her designs seem so extravagantly cold at first sight and then they make woman look amazingly feminine.

Taking inspiration from medieval warriors Henriette manages to create special things for modern women.

Chanel strands of pearl have become an atribute of fancy girls all over the world. They are stylish, they are classy, they are modest and chic at the same time. Pearl strand created by Coco Chanel became a part of classic look at first and then has transformed to the accossory which shows your fashion affiliation. Madame Chanel was the first designer who has invented bijouterie as a part of women’s wardrobe and made “little toys” as she called them to live on women’s dressers. No wonder Chanel bijou is still the most popular bijou.

Many girls naively think that popular Chanel strands are made from the natural pearl. The shining surface makes you believe it is a pearl, but it is not.

In fact, the Chanel strands are made of glass jewelry. Every single bead is blown from glass and put to the natural nacre from shells under a very high temperature. Because of natural nacre this pearl shine appears, so you can think you see the real pearls. Chanel strands are timeless because the nacre will never darken. This is a good way to save money for fashionistas – those pearl strands will never go out of fashion.

“Pearl” strands became a symbol of Chanel and they’re often used to draw customers’ attention as it was made in Tokyo. Huge strands were put in window displays.

To have even one strand is a dream for many girls and the only one accessory that can try to beat the Chanel strand popularity is the chain by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Jewellery house Bulgari has created three limited edition pieces to celebrate 125th anniversary of the House. It almost has bacome the tradition to organize charity campaigns for one’s anniversary in jewellery business. In case with Bulgari when one pendant or ring is purchased $60 will go to Save the Cildren’s “Rewrite the Future” campaign. Not that much considering the price of each piece – $290. There are three pieces in the collection – two silver rings of different size with inside engraving “save the children” and one pendant.

Willem Dafoe, Terrence Howard, Ben Stiller, Isabella Rossellini, Ginnifer Goodwin and many more celebrities have posed with the jewelry to draw attention to this cause.The best way to draw public’s attention is to call for celebrities. For them $290 is nothing but how many those $290 rings Bulgari will sell to save the children. Limited edition is not so limited in a way. Still without such acts of free wil of big companies there were almost nobody to help children.

Look books of jewellery collections are sparkling and colourfull this year, so I can’t help surprising. Most of all I’m talking about Boucheron’s collection “Tentation Macaron” and some rings and bracelets from Piaget’s creative collection. Is it a ring or it’s a big stone presented the way that it just causes your boyfriend’s appetite?

Since there are many women fond of big stones and everything that makes them look as a peacock, such creations of jewellery houses seem reasonable to me. The only thing I can’t get, how a woman in her 40 can really wear that??

For summer when everything is bright, flowers are blooming and the sea beach is waiting for you these macaron and limelight rings look fantastic. They really are. They look fantastic even for the city with jeans and a bright t-shirt. one of Marc jacobs usually makes for summer. But they don’t look fantastic even with such t-shirt if you’re kind of not 20 years old. Can you imagine some Anna Wintour wearing that? Hilarious!

At least you can wear them till you get to your thirties and this is so much fun