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designer jewellery-how to accessorise a formal outfit

Accessorising with designer jewellery can be a rewarding experience if done correctly. Here are a few tips describing how to get it right for the festive season.

Designer Jewellery-You Shall Go to the Ball

Designer jewellery is one of the best accessories when it comes to formal occasions. We all like to splash out on a new outfit if there is a special event on the horizon. However, if you cannot afford something new, designer jewellery will come to the rescue. Buying a classic piece of designer jewellery is an investment and will stand you in good stead any time you need to dress to impress.

Designer Jewellery-Make a Statement

Designer jewellery can look classic, elegant, simple but always effective. You can use it to dress up a simple black dress or compliment any one of your existing outfits. A stunning piece of jewellery can transform an outfit and take centre stage when you need it to. Use designer jewellery to draw the attention away from your dress if you have worn it before and make it look different by using stylish accessories. Use dramatic jewellery with a simple dress or plain jewellery with a statement dress as jewellery can overpower an outfit if there is too much going on. If your dress already features a lot of beading or sequins keeping the accessories simple is a must for any occasion.

Designer Jewellery for all Occasions

Just as different occasions require different dress codes, accessorising with designer jewellery follows suite. You can dress an outfit up or down depending on your choice of jewellery. If you want to look elegant but don’t want to look like you have tried too hard a classic silver bracelet is the way to create understated glamour. If you are attending a ball or a dinner and dance a diamante necklace can look very effective with a simple gown. There is a piece of designer jewellery for every occasion.

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Jessica Simpson announces desire to design jewellery

A lot of celebrities are starting to design jewellery for one reason or another, with Jessica Simpson being the latest one to announce her intentions to start as well

Jessica Simpson, the singer and actress, has announced her plans to go forward into the jewellery business, though she is still discussing the finer points of her ideas.

An insider, speaking to Fox News, revealed that she was chatting to designer Pascale Mouawad to create a new line, which could include wedding rings.

The unnamed source said: “Jess and her mom are really in pushing the wedding rings.

“Jess wants her own line but Pascal isn’t so keen on that. He wants to work with her, but definitely doesn’t think wedding rings would be appropriate for Jessica.”

Jessica Simpson has recently been linked to relationship-based allegations being levelled against Tiger Woods, the star of golf whose fall from grace has been particularly prominent in the last few weeks following a strange car crash at the end of his driveway, leading to revelations about his loyalty to his wife.

However, in order to protest her innocence, the star plans to take legal action against those making comments based on photos at a golfing event in the past.

Vivid Pink diamond sold off for record £6.5 million in Hong Kong

A rare, 5-carat ‘vivid pink’ diamond was auctioned off for a record £6.5 million at Christies in Hong Kong last week.

The sale made by an unidentified Asian buyer beat the previous record, set 15 years ago in Geneva for a 19.66-carat stone at £4.4 million.

Graff Diamond jewellers set the chickpea-sized stone (a quarter of the size of the Geneva stone) in a ‘cushion-cut’ ring. Francois Curiel, Christie’s Europe chairman described it as a “fabulous pink diamond, probably one of the rarest stones I’ve ever seen.”

The diamond’s pre-sale estimate was between five and seven million dollars. The pink gem’s per-carat price of £1.3 million was also the highest ever paid for any diamond at auction, according to Christie’s.

£1.2 million a carat for pink coloured diamond

“No stone has ever been sold for £1.2 million a carat, we were used to £600,000 a carat for coloured diamonds but never £1.2 million,” said Curiel. “This is an absolute record that is not going to be broken for a while I believe.”

The South African-mined diamond has minor blemishes, which the auction house says can be removed by minor re-polishing. The bid beat a £6.3 million bid for a seven-carat blue diamond in Geneva this year.

“This definitely went above its high estimate, but that is what the market thought it was worth,” a Christie’s spokeswoman told AFP. “We think this will probably hold for quite some time — it’s a very strong price.”

She added Asian jewellery buyers have become “an extremely important group” for the auction house. “They are very active, very sophisticated and they’re buying at the very high end.”

Cold Noodles from neutral Jewelry

Twenty years ago, more jewelry ads, find that most of the brand positioning has changed, the former more than the “flattering”, but now most of them “pleasure and has” as a starting point. Modern women are increasingly independent, jewelry styles have also begun to go uninhibited line of fall and winter season, tide, but also not difficult to find bands in Taiwan.

Cool cool material

Autumn and winter clothing styles have always indulge in cool colors, jewelry is also closely follow the trend in black, white, silver, gray and other colors become a key indicator. Even CHANEL’s most lovely camellia, but also was transformed into a sparkling ice-cold light signs, flashing in the temple on top. The combined effect of indifferent between the colors is also very obvious, so you see a combination of a more calm.

Cold material is part of silver, diamonds, horns and other materials. Do not think that there is no addition to diamonds, precious materials, in addition, even Hermes have taken the initiative to grow with the horns and silver necklaces, allowed to show light, facial gesture, issued when Didi De friction sound, in the irregular size of the beads of the Inter, but also the size of the petals randomly interspersed irregularly shaped silver pendants, resulting in colors and materials on the jump and contrast. While another used a rose gold and brown diamond bracelet, it appears that many of the atmosphere. The most attractive addition to unusually exaggerated size, the mysterious knitting process to bring a very strong dynamic, stealth hasp, there is one aspect of the diamond-studded brown.

$8 Million Dollar Pink Diamond on The Auction Block!

On the block during upcoming sales in Hong Kong is a rare pink diamond the auction house estimates could fetch up to $8 million.

“Vivid Pink,” as it’s called, is a five-carat stone flanked by two white diamonds and set in a ring by elite jeweler Graff. It hails from a private collection.

The glamorous rock toured Singapore, Bangkok, Geneva and Taipei before returning to Hong Kong, where it will be auctioned off Dec. 1 at the Convention and Exhibition Center alongside 250 other gemstones and pieces of jewelry from the likes of Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels. Altogether, the jewelry sale’s lots are estimated to be worth more than $33 million.

The brilliant pink stone earned top marks from the Gemological Institute of America, which rates diamonds. The gem is unique because of its particular hue–a rich bubblegum rather than a more common lighter rose. It is also valuable because of its saturation, the depth the color extends into the stone.

“Stones like this–they’re not just jewelry, they’re artwork,” says Alan Bronstein, a New York-based trader and dealer of rare colored diamonds. “The simplest possible mounting is the best way to make that diamond shine. You don’t want to embellish it with motifs and designs.”

Colored diamonds mined naturally are often pockmarked with flecks of other hues, like purple, orange or gray. But this one is blemish-free, boasting an even tone throughout. Only one in 100,000 diamonds is as special.

Jewellery meets high fashion at Paris haute couture

For the aboriginal time in the added than 150-year history of Paris haute couture, accomplished jewellery will accommodated admirable clothes to actualize a new ‘luxury week’ for the spring/summer 2010 season.

In January, the haute couture houses will clearly acceptable the haute joaillerie makers assimilate the couture calendar, chain two of the city’s a lot of acclaimed and big-ticket hand-crafts.

The arch Paris couture houses, such as Chanel,Christian Dior, Givenchy , and Jean Paul Gaultier, calm with Giorgio Armani Privé,Valentino and Elie Saab, will be abutting by some of the a lot of acclaimed jewellery houses in the world, including Boucheron, Cartier, Chanel Joaillerie, Chaumet, Christian Dior Joaillerie, Mellerio dits Meller and Van Cleef & Arpels.

The accessible Paris haute couture anniversary begins on January 24th and will accomplishment on January 28th, the day that will be committed to the ability of accomplished jewellery.

‘Haute couture’ is the French byword for ‘high fashion’ and represents the accomplished accessible akin of creating one-off designs, accurately fabricated to the client’s measurements. The industry is about accustomed as accepting amorphous in the 1850s with an Englishman, Charles Frederick Worth, originally from Lincolnshire, who is admired as ‘the ancestor of haute couture’. Worth aboriginal formed in London and confused to Paris in 1845. His success was assured if Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III, became a client.

Although the amount of ‘maisons’ who abide on the twice-yearly (January and July) couture calendar, has alone decidedly back the bang years of the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century, the industry charcoal an important ‘flagship’ for affluence brands. Wealthy Russian and Middle Eastern clients, calm with the affluent wives and daughters of the arising powerhouses in China and added Asian countries accept become an important antecedent of assets for the houses which remain.

Costs for a archetypal clothing or dress, fabricated absolutely to the customer’s proportions, exquisitely-lined and hand-finished, and with several fittings, can alpha from about £10,000.

Evening dresses and marriage gowns, in the world’s a lot of big-ticket fabrics, generally elaborately-embellished with adornment and beading, which can yield amid 800 and 1,000 hours of assiduous handwork, by a specialist house, such as Lesage, which was founded in 1922, can calmly ability £100,000.

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Jeweler lets customers see live diamond inscribing

Tustin, Calif.–The Jewelry Exchange retail chain will be offering its diamond customers the opportunity to choose their own inscriptions and then sit back and watch a computer screen as those words get inscribed on their newly purchased diamond at the company’s factory.

Customers will first approve the image of the transcription on screen and then can wait and watch the laser-inscribing process, which takes just minutes, The Jewelry Exchangesaid in a press release issued on Wednesday, announcing its acquisition of the newest PhotoScribe Cold Laser System for its state-of-the-art factory.

Through the inscription process, which the retailer says is 100 percent safe for laser-inscribing diamonds, customers can either have a diamond engraved with a special message of their own choosing or with a security code that would include the diamond certification number.

The inscription is done by using a tiny, precise laser beam that transforms a thin layer–just a few atoms thick–of the sparkling diamond crystal itself to opaque carbon crystal or graphite.

The cold-laser energy fully absorbs into the diamond in a process that the company describes as being superior to the hot-laser technology on the market, and which also does not require any pre-laser or post-laser processing, such as painting the diamond, which can produce inconsistent engraving.

The diamond can be inscribed all around the girdle using the special laser process, the company said. The laser inscription does not change the clarity or color grade of a diamond as it is microscopic and invisible to the unaided eye, viewable only under 10-times magnification, which requires a jeweler’s loupe or other magnifier.

The inscription process is considered permanent since it can only be removed by a professional diamond cutter. Removing the inscription would not change the weight or appearance of the diamond, the company says.

The Jewelry Exchange is a division of Goldenwest Diamond Corp. and has been operating for more than 32 years in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Fla., Tustin, Calif., and Washington D.C., where it does business as The Jewelry Exchange. The company operates as The Jewelry Factory in Cleveland, Detroit and New York. In Houston, the company operates as The Jewelry Source.

Van Cleef & Arpels —Writing a New Chapter of Love

France’s top jewelry brand Van Cleef & Arpels bearing on the warm, elegant and a new fantasy masterpiece, as if the genial autumn sunlight embraces you gently. New series “Effeuillage” recalls that the French pulled out the small piece of the love petals love game. Effeuillage, rings and earrings, considering classic lucky four-leaf clover as design blueprint, the four Sweet Alhambra heart-shaped pattern turned into Every petal, and a diamond designer jewelrysurrounded by fine Italian which reflects the intimate love of the innocent steps shadows.

The fourth gold heart-shaped petals with small buckle hinges on the main ring above the seat in order to highlight the polished gold inlay casting made. Even you can whisper your love etched in the floor above will closely link with the a heart into a twist on the fingers of the Jie Yuhua. The swaying posture also radiate light and beauty of the wearer.

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt design for Asprey

London–Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are famous for juggling their film schedules with philanthropic efforts that take them around the globe, all while playing parents to six kids, but the Hollywood power couple has lately gotten even busier: They’ve dipped into jewelry design.

British jewelry brand Asprey recently announced the launch of the “Protector Collection,” featuring limited-edition fine jewels and silver objects designed in collaboration with Jolie and Pitt.

Each piece in the collection features a snake motif, one that Asprey said Jolie chose for its symbolism as an iconic guardian, particularly over family protection and fertility.

According to Asprey, during Jolie’s first pregnancy, she was given a snake ring, intended to guard her and her unborn child. The symbol has become a family guardian to the Jolie-Pitts, and in the Protector Collection, it appears in everything from fine jeweled bracelets to rings, earrings and pendants available for both children and adults.

The motif can also be found in three sterling silver objects: a tooth box featuring an animated snake that stands above the circular box; an eggcup replete with a coiled snake wrapped around the cup’s base; and a spoon whose handle takes serpentine form.

Each piece in the collection was handcrafted at Asprey’s London flagship store, and the designs are available now.

Given that this is a Jolie-Pitt venture, the collection also has a philanthropic bent. All net proceeds will be donated to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, a nonprofit organization that seeks out donors and identifies new and innovative projects to provide education for children affected by conflict, violence, war or natural disaster.

To see more of the designs, jump to our 10X blog.

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