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More of Van Cleef and Arpels' California Rêverie collection (previewed before).

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There may be two constants in advertising, sex and cute.  Cartier seems to have chosen the later, in spades,  for their current website campaign for the Les Must collection.  They've centered it around a panther cub, in honor of one of their product lines. 

In October Cartier released a new collection(press release) in their top-tier Haute Joaillerie line, Secrets et Merveilles (Secrets and Wonders) at an invitation-only affair in Istanbul.  In their words the collection contains 70 pieces "dedicated to femininity".   The collection centers on the four queens, Peacock Queen, the Diamond Queen, the Pearl Queen and the Snake Queen.  Rather than try and describe the pieces, here are the press photos I've been able to collect.  All are copyright Cartier, 2009, but are listed by the source website.



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I believe this is a bracelet, based on this tiny picture.
And for good measure, one of a model wearing one of the pieces All of these are from Paris Joaillerie, but are also available on the annoying www.theluxejunkie.com
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Or where designs really come from.

Fashematics!

A well reasoned article on the topic from Wired, of all places.  Brings some of the discussion to the present day, where once the Themiserol was removed the target for the anti-vaccination crowd had to become much vaguer
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Kinetic Type Foundry (Really) produced this fantastic little bit of animated type for AICP's recent conference in Minnesota, featuring all the sponsors.

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• From the NYTimes' fashion blog, The Moment, a preview of Van Cleef and Arpels' forthcoming collection California Rêverie, celebrating 70 years of business in the USA.  The following piece is one small part of the Ananas Collier (Pineapple necklace)
  

(photo by: Stuart D. Phillips)

• On a more traditional note, VC and A has also announced a collection celebrating the great pre-Versailles French Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte as part of their French segment of their "Jardins" line.  Including such pieces as a necklace inspired by the fountains

"The Vicomte necklace is made of 370 carats of sapphires shaped in three rows of sapphire balls and pear-shaped sapphire drops that suggest
water flowing from a fountain. Each fountain is composed of diamonds
and a center sapphire that weigh 3.53 carats and 4.87 carats,
respectively."

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National Jeweler awarded Shaill Jhaveri their "Best of..." award for gold this summer.   The actual award winning piece was a large cuff bracelet from their "Couture" collection, done in 18k gold, a slightly warmer hue than common 18kt yellow gold, diamonds and champleve enamel.  As is his custom, part of the design is a word, Ankurit -- Sanskrit for "a spiritual awakening". 

To my taste, I find another piece in the same collection, a more traditionally shaped eastern bangle, more interesting

All photos from his website 

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(Or why professional photographers are professional photographers)
On a recent trip to NYC, I took some pictures of pieces of jewelry in Chanel's window, including a bracelet and pair of earrings, flowers in black and white diamonds.