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.
12 Chopin jewelry robbery
New Express News the world’s leading jewelry brand Chopard in the Place Vendome in Paris, France shop (below) May 30 robbed estimated losses amounting to 6.6 million euros. May 30 French media quoted judicial sources said at noon that day, dressed in a neat and elegant “ordinary” customers into Chopin Place Vendome stores. However, when he went to a shop next to them, they suddenly took out a pistol to threaten, and looted stores in a short time after the 12 jewels away. Staff report to the Police, Paris Police quickly arrived on the scene, is now under investigation.
In Paris, the world-famous jewelry store to become the object of armed robbery have been rare. Last year in December, the United States Harry Winston jewelry store in Paris, has also suffered a shop armed robbery, resulting in the loss of up to 80 million euros business has become in recent decades, France’s most serious cases of armed robbery.
Is difficult to disposal of stolen goods
According to an expert analysis, robbery price of these commodities is difficult to be shot, because any acquisition of these commodities buyers must remove jewelry from the inlaid seat in order to disguise the source, so that a substantial decline in the value of jewelry, but also These “stolen property” can only be sold on the black market at a low price.
Chopin and the Stars
Headquartered in Switzerland, Chopin is the world-renowned jewelry business, often lent valuable jewelry decorated Hollywood red carpet. By Oscar, for example, Chopin jewelry consecutive six-year sponsorship to the candidate name stars, this year’s Best Actress Kate Winslet, Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz wearing Chopard jewelry are both attending the Academy Awards ceremony .
Posted: November 6th, 2009
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Jie Mi Royal Jewelry
The beginning of the last century in the United Kingdom has a touching “love Jiangshan a deeper love for beauty,” the story. The heroine of the story – Mrs. Simpson, there is a gigantic emerald ring. This ring is for her to give up the throne from the former King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor. Today, you talk about the Kingdom and the Beauty Behind the royal family who handed down in the little-known story of colored gemstones ~ ~
Edward VIII period: Wreath Style
Into the late nineteenth century, the French jewelry craftsmen of the world community with an elegant jewelry, “Garland Style”, the circular frame and decorate the top of the flower, leaf let “Wreath style” of jewelry looks like a beautiful picture. At this time the use of expensive jewelry with precious stones is no longer just the precious metals silver and gold, platinum began to be applied. Platinum metallographic for gold and silver have superior brightness and hardness, the use of platinum to the traditional material less jewelry of precious metals, jewelry itself is lighter, and create a sense of more precise modeling.
Edward VIII era, applied arts and enamel flower-shaped brooch, manufacturing in 1905, the broad leaves of the design is obviously the impact from the east.
Edward VIII peridot pendant times, manufacturing in 1905, square cut workers and teardrop cut olivine accompanied by fancy gold gold, on the 18th-century style, and there is no difference.
Bird of paradise brooch, using gold, platinum, emerald, topaz and other materials, manufacturing in 1950, out of influence of the times, jewelry modeling arbitrarily reference style periods.
Victorian Age: an alliance with the diamond
Victorian-style bracelet, using ruby, gold and diamonds, manufacturing in 1880, the Queen’s aesthetic taste with Japan does not affect the vast and far-reaching empire. Then in color gemstone jewelry bracelet class applications peaked.
Bug shape brooch, by the Victorian concern about the impact of natural culture, manufacturing in 1880, using pearls and rubies, as modified.
The early 20th century: the first post-Art Deco
From the 20th century, beginning, Louis Cartier to come from Egypt, Persia, the Far East and the Russian ballet (the Ballets russes) for some design inspiration and style into the more traditional geometric patterns and abstract designs. In 1906, they began to have a rich color of some innovative materials such as onyx, coral, etc. applied to the design, and form a strong new artistic styles. This style of Paris in 1925 organized by the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and craft arts, after known as “decorative art” (Art Deco).
Cartier produced the works in 1930, including extensive use of the round cut and long cut of the brown square-shaped crystal, 20 years after the gold alloy to be applied more firmly embedded and fixed with gold claws small, precious stones arranged more intensive.
After 1950, elegant style and pop art began to affect the world, experienced a bleak World War II decades, fashion design began to recover in 50 years, there has been refreshing new look (new face), long A-skirts, tight tops, elegant exquisite, fashion master Dior (Dior) to cool lake elegant style has been called “soft dictator.” Reflected in the clothing design, extensive use of bright light, bright artificial leather, coated fabrics, and metal and plastic products. The success of the “new look” mentor Dior jewelry inheritance is not completely ruled out pre-war and wartime style, emphasis should be designed because of the size of the stones.
However, the noble end of the era, even of aesthetics can not stop, and prosperity of the 20th century 50 years the world’s biggest trend is to return platinum and diamond jewelry, colored gemstone jewelry into a long-term relative silence.
Into the late nineteenth century, the French jewelry craftsmen of the world community with an elegant jewelry, “Garland Style”, the circular frame and decorate the top of the flower, leaf let “Wreath style” of jewelry looks like a beautiful picture. At this time the use of expensive jewelry with precious stones is no longer just the precious metals silver and gold, platinum began to be applied. Platinum metallographic for gold and silver have superior brightness and hardness, the use of platinum to the traditional material less jewelry of precious metals, jewelry itself is lighter, and create a sense of more precise modeling.
Edward VIII era, applied arts and enamel flower-shaped brooch, manufacturing in 1905, the broad leaves of the design is obviously the impact from the east.
Mikimoto: Nick Foulkes
I would like to adorn the necks of all the women of the world with pearls –Kokichi Mikimoto
Born to a noodle-maker in a small town in Toba, Japan, Kokichi Mikimoto followed his vision and his passion to become one of the world s greatest inventors. His creation the perfect pearl.
Nature forms the lustrous pearl by chance inside the oyster, and throughout history this rare jewel of the sea remained synonymous with mystery, power, and wealth. A young Mikimoto vowed to make its beauty accessible to all and to protect fragile oyster beds that greed so wantonly destroyed. His quest to uncover the pearl s secrets led to the world s first cultivated pearl a feat no man had yet achieved. The name Mikimoto would become tantamount with the pearl around the world.
Today, Kokichi Mikimoto s goal that every woman might know the splendor of the pearl extends to nearly every major city in the world. Heavy in the hand and cool to the touch, the Mikimoto s pearls remain the ultimate symbol of pure, natural elegance.