Elizabeth Showers always has lots of interesting color in her collection. But her new designs this season have a particularly fresh palette. Stack rings combine moonstone and turquoise or turquoise and green tourmaline. Stacks of these rings, combining several palettes, are dazzling. See the whole collection when it debuts at Couture, DA31.
Piaget’s new “Limelight Paradise” collection reinvents the cocktail ring to actually look like cocktails. The tropically colored gemstone rings in green tourmaline, amethyst, and blue topaz are adorned with straws, lemon slices, and even diamond salt on the rim. The setting? Martini of course. How can you resist?
Although Gurhan is still best known for modern forms on high-karat gold, the designer has been working in pure silver too for more than two years now, first in a men’s then in a women’s collection. Although his women’s silver collection has used many of the hammered forms of his gold collection., the men’s collection launched in 2007 was a dramatic departure, with harder more geometric shapes. This year in Vegas, a new collection of silver for women uses some of the harder geometry of that men’s collection but with a more traditional floral inspiration. The new collection is inspired by Iznik pottery, named for the town in Turkey where it was created. Openwork shapes help keep earrings and pendants light in feeling and gold and diamond accents keep it precious. The collection is also aimed at impulse buyers, with retail price points starting below $500.
Spectore Corporation has long been a trailblazer in contemporary metals, creating innovative titanium jewelry collections for men. Now the company is turning its attention to women’s jewelry, launching a new collection called Mirella by Edward Mirell.
Samples are intriguing: bold signet style rings in gleaming purple titanium with a frosted motif. Layered styles with cutouts revealing bright colors below. Patterns incorporated into the surface of the metal. The tiger-pattened pendant below, one of the few styles that’s been photographed so far, is just the beginning. If the line lives up to the promise of the sketches, it will bridge the gap between inexpensive titanium bands and the high-end couture colorful titanium creations by La Reina, Stephen Webster, Tarditi, and the like, offering jewelry designs that are both stylish and affordable.
Victor Basteris thinks jewelry should be bold, personal, unusual, and brightly colored. His new Sabido & Basteris collection, making its official US debut at JCK this year, is created in fine, soft thread made of recycled silver in vivid colors. The collection also uses gold, gemstones, wood, crystal, leather, and mother-of-pearl in a wide palette of colors to make dramatic one of a kind neckpieces and other jewelry. Each piece has an elaborate story of mythological inspiration. But Sabido & Basteris’ most interesting piece is perhaps its most simple: a recreation of the friendship bracelet in woven silver thread in a combination of colors. Sabido & Basteris will be exhibiting in the Italian Pavilion of JCK, IP 87.
It’s hard to imaging a more personalized piece of jewelry than a necklace or charm engraved with your own photo. Photoscribe is now offering a new custom photo jewelry collection in steel. The new collection, which launches at JCK Las Vegas, allows retailers to offer photo jewelry for less than $100.
PeJay Creations has a new idea for those divorce diamonds: a new collection of 18k gold bangles that are designed to turn a diamond that’s in the drawer into a fashionable accessory. The bracelets are either flexible or have a hidden hinge to make them easy to take on and off. The two styles shown here retail for $1,511 and $1,769 with 0.30 carats in pave to surround the customer’s diamond.
Le Vian’s chocolate diamond collection just gets sweeter. New styles like this spectacular butterfly pendant feature rough diamonds in shades of chocolate, set in strawberry gold too, combining three trends in every piece.
Le Vian has also launched its first bridal collection, Le Vian Vows. These styles have a sweet secret of their own: a hidden blue sapphire inside each engagement ring takes care of “something blue” in a precious way. Check out these new collections at Le Vian’s booths at Luxury, Salon 43, and JCK, 18119.
Although many brands are launching new silver collections in Vegas, Chad Allison is taking the opposite tack, launching the company’s first-ever platinum collection. As you might expect, the collection has platinum bridal designs, including the shapely setting below that retails for $2,095. But it also includes the kind of dramatic diamond fashion styles Chad Allison is known for, like the chandelier earrings below. These red-carpet worthy platinum dangles with more than a carat and a half of diamonds retail for $9,425.
Father and son design team Michael and Peter Meksian of Michael M are launching a new collection called Dreaming in Color, one-of-a-kind pieces created to showcase unusual translucent diamonds in slices, asymmetrical cuts, and fancy colors. Techniques such as hammering, oxidizing, folding, and milgrained engravings combine for unusual textures and shapes. Ranging in price from $5000 to $100,000 retail, the 30-piece collection is completely one-of-a-kind. The collection will be launched at the JCK Show in Platinum Pavilion booth 364.
