Kaleidoscope effect

Kenneth Jay Lane vintage bead necklace with asymmetrical flower. Secrets of Choosing necklace

Secrets of Choosing necklace
Usual chain necklace or beads may radically change the image of any girl and make her more stylish and fashionable. These accessories are suitable for any time of day or night and will be an excellent decoration. Today, as before, any necklace may intrigue and attracts attention of others. The main thing you need to pay attention when choosing these ornaments – a form of the neck and face. For example, a necklace of gold is excellent with evening dresses and clothes of office style. In that case, if you want to try on a necklace to a simple outfit, choose a chain with a small pendant. For the evening version is suitable luxurious necklace with precious stones – diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires.
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Earrings with Buddha face. Iradj Moini jewellery

Iradj Moini jewellery
An architect by training, Iradj Moini was a leading jewelry designer of fashion house Oscar de la Renta. Born in Iran, he made a career in jewelry in the 1980s. The list of prestigious clients confirms his reputation as one of the most talented modern designers. Made by hand, Moini jewellery always large and voluminous, with careful study of details. The jeweler, in particular, used such materials as copper, bone, wood and European crystals and oriental precious stones of bright colors. The main motifs of his ornaments are floral compositions and figurines.
Noteworthy, Iraj Moini also produced costume jewelry for such reputable designers as Bill Blass, Carolina Herrera and Arnold Scaasi. Orders for his decorations came from Europe. Significant demand for his jewelry allowed Moini to sell jewelry through the most fashionable stores in New York. Actress Drew Barrymore, for example, bought a gilded bracelet with Austrian crystals in a boutique in Los Angeles for the “Awarding the Academy” in 1999.
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Beautiful set of brooch and earrings. Juliana Vintage jewellery

Juliana Vintage jewellery
Owned by the American company Delizza and Elster Inc. (abbreviated as D&E), Juliana appeared in 1953 and lasted until 1990.
Founded in the 1940s by Robert De Lizza and Harold Elster, Delizza and Elster Inc. became one of the largest jewelry manufacturers in the United States. Already in the first years of its operation, the company signed contracts with hundreds of firms in the US and abroad.
The list of companies for which D&E has created jewelry is impressive. These are well-known jewelry brands such as Weiss, Alice Caviness, Ballet, Celebrity, Hobe, Hattie Carnegie, Kenneth J. Lane, Kramer, and Karu.
Noteworthy, the company did not label the jewelry created for these brands. In 1953, the company launched the Juliana jewelry line, which has become a collector’s item today.
Originally, the craftsmen did not label this line of jewelry, as large stores and companies preferred to see the Juliana name only on attached tags.
Apparently, as a result of numerous negotiations, since 1967, large department stores began to sell jewelry marked “Juliana”.
Although Mr. De Lizza wanted his jewelry to be labeled “De Lizza and Elster”, the name “Juliana” became more popular. What’s more, these pieces are among the most sought-after on the market, and can fetch up to several thousand dollars at auctions.

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Russian brand Georgy Rushev jewellery

Georgy Rushev jewellery
Georgy Rushev began creating jewelry in 2008 and for a decade much has happened. In particular, collaboration with renowned designers (Alena Akhmadullina, BEssARION), and glossy magazines. Also, the recognition of colleagues – Evelina Khromchenko, Aidan Salakhova, and Alyona Ahmadulina. Each ornament – an emotional reinterpretation of fashion trends and sensual, even fabulous images.
Noteworthy, before launching his jewelry business, Rushev had to work as a window dresser, stylist and art director for glossy magazines, while studying the history of fashion. He tried to remember nothing about the practice, and about the theory. And then tried his hand as a designer – decided to turn his passion for crafts into something more global.
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Necklace of transparent plastic, decorated with large flowers and leaves. Alexandra Burkina plastic jewellery

Alexandra Burkina plastic jewellery
Designer and founder of Stern brand, Alexandra Burkina works with unusual materials to create each ornament as a work of contemporary art. Plastic and iron in her hands obtain completely unique shape. Noteworthy, each flower petal is meticulously carved by hand. Moderately severe and ironically simple, these decorations complement the casual way and certainly can not be unnoticed even in the fashion event.
Although STERN is a young brand, but has already managed to establish itself among the leading connoisseurs of fashion, in gloss (including Vogue) and one of the largest and most important exhibitions in Paris, the international Fine, Fashion Jewellery and Watches show – Bijorca.
Each hand cut from acrylic plastic, from the base to the petals decoration is fragile, and should be carefully worn and stored.
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Amethyst (source – Fersman Mineralogical Museum Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia). Mineral kaleidoscope

Mineral kaleidoscope
Nature is able to create truly wonderful things, for example, minerals. Noteworthy, each mineral is unique and unique in its kind. It has the natural homogeneous solid body which has been or is in the crystalline state and has a specific chemical composition.
Man used minerals since ancient times. For a long time the main minerals was flint – fine-grained variety of quartz, it was used by primitive people in the Old Stone Age. Were also used other minerals, such as cherry hematite, goethite tan and black manganese oxides – like amber, jade, native gold, and others as a material for jewelry.
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Belle Epoque handcrafted Diamond Brooch Pin. Moscow, 1908 – 1917. Marked with initials ‘AM’ for Moscow jeweler Alexander Moskvin. Russian Art Nouveau jewellery

Russian Art Nouveau jewellery
Noteworthy, Art Nouveau Jewellery has “geographical” features. French Art Nouveau jewellery, for example, by Lucien Gaillard, Georges Fouquet, is masterly asymmetrical, while “the German mind” (Wilhelm von Cranach Lucas) tends to symmetry. Palette also varies, and in Russia it is different than in Europe.
Russian Revival Style of the 1910s, called Neo-Russian Modern was influenced by medieval Russo-Byzantine tradition. Produced in Moscow in 1908-1917, the period before and during the World War I, Russian medieval designs and shapes were mixed with typical Belle Epoque forms and elements. The result was a unique Russian jewelry style not seen anywhere else.
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