Non-Conservative Jewelry

[juicyincouture]

Okay I am curious, is there anyone on here that wears anything BESIDES diamond engagement rings and pearls? No one get offended here i am just interested in seeing if anyone else here is into more eccentric stuff like I am. If you do what brands do you dig? Pictures would be nice.

 

[obscura]

Me. I'm 18 and don't wear diamonds or pearls for both aesthetic and ethical reasons. I wear a TON of jewelry though - Iosselliani and Pamela Love are some go-to designers for me. Bijules and Chrishabana have some interesting pieces as well.

Bona Drag has a very nicely curated jewelry shop, IMO. And Tara of Leviticus Jewelry makes some beautiful things.

I love jewelry, haha. I find it everywhere - thrift stores, vintage, crafts bazaars, etc. One of my favorite necklaces is part of an amethyst geode on a copper chain that a man made for me on a street in Chicago. And he wasn't even a vendor.

I would love to show you pictures but can't at the moment - I've been living and volunteering in rural Africa for the past seven months as part of a gap year program

 

[lanasyogamama]

I'm not into super eccentric stuff, but I love some more modern jewelry, like they sell at Ylang 23.

I got this Love Rocks NY pendant for Christmas, and I love love love it! http://forum.purseblog.com/the-jewelry-box/love-rocks-ny-letter-pendant-543638.html

I got the Roseark House Cross in Feb, and I love that too! http://coolspotters.com/jewelry/kathy-rose-for-roseark-house-cross

I also have a modern RHR in diamond, I need to take pics.

 

[Swanky]

tons of members have you opened up a lot of the threads? There's a whole thread about non-diamond wedding rings.

 

[canada's]

i love fallon, tom binns, bing bang, bliss lau...

vintage is my favorite though. my favorite piece is a huge gold disc ring my husband got me about two years ago when we were dating. i wear it almost daily on my right index finger.

 

[obscura]

i love fallon, tom binns, bing bang, bliss lau...

looks like Barney's Co-Op must be amazing for you? I love Bliss Lau as well.. I was highly upset about the Erin Wasson debacle. One of the many reasons I can't stand Erin Wasson.

 

[Candice0985]

I like different gemstones that are not available in stores like tourmaline, spinel etc... so i've had a few pieces custom made. I recently had a ring inspired by the tiffany legacy made up. its the legacy setting in rose gold with a pink tourmaline for the center stone I love it

 

[Leah]

Love wearing jewelry apart from e-ring, wedding ring, pearls.

In terms of contemporary designers (those that I would invest in for the looong term), I have so many favorites - James de Givenchy (his work for both Taffin and Sotheby's is GENIUS, imagine mixing diamonds, platinum with rubber), Michele della Valle, Nicholas Varney, Margherita Burgener. And for eye popping bold pieces, I love the excellent Indian jewelers Viren Bhagat and Raj Mahtani.

For fun or seasonal jewelry, I adore Marni, Dries van Noten, Mattia Cielo, Lanvin.

 

[thedseer]

i love statement necklaces - some of them gaudy. don't typically wear much jewelry, but i have a necklace weakness!

 

[Gimmethebag]

I work in a denim boutique, so I would look very strange wearing pearls everyday for work.

I wear almost everyday: a Nicole Schumann gold necklace with different charms to signify good luck (two of which are skull related, so not very conservative!), a shorter 18k white gold and diamond (kind of like DBY except it's carved flowers with diamonds on both sides) by Jamie Wolf and smokey topaz with 18k yellow gold and diamonds earrings by Jamie Wolf. I sometimes throw a Tiffany initial or a Mauri Pippeo (sp?) initial necklace in the mix.

On my hands, I usually wear a very thin diamond band and my Michael Kors faux horn watch with a thin leather strap bracelet layered over it.

My favorite stores for online browsing are Barney's and the W Hotel store.

 

[momma22]

I'm a Me&Ro fanatic! I also wear Melissa Joy Manning and Chan Luu, and then other no name costume jewelry.

 

[tillie46]

I love statement pieces.......Miriam Haskell, Steven Dweck, Jose & Maria Barrera, Fragments, Steven Lagos.........the list is endless!! Did I mention.......Chanel, & Hermes pieces!

 

[chessmont]

I am a fanatic of the older Stephen Dweck bracelets and necklaces - from 7-15 or so years ago. With lots of large funky stones, cameos, fossils, etc. Very much statement jewelry.

I must have at least 20 pieces, I'd have to go count.

I stopped buying when he started making the delicate jewelry.

Not sure what he's doing now, I have so much I promised myself not to look!

 

[Bitten]

My non-precious jewellery I tend to either pick up at markets, so no designer name, or I have some pieces that I've made myself.

Not wearing so much of it at the moment though, more rockin' my new precious babies!

 

[douzz]

nearly everything in my jewelery box is not branded. I wear stuff which I randomly get from markets or small boutiques. Mostly statement jewelery. I'm not brand picky, I wear anything that I like and think is beautiful.