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I know. It’s nuts!!The pickings are so slim on all luxe jewelry it seems.
It's certain designs for me, I don't mind whether they're silver, y/r/wg or plat. I suppose it's because I think of jewellery as an extension of dressing and so I'm looking for pieces to either provide the focus for minimalist dressing or harmonise with a different expression. I'm not so much into diamonds and/or colour stones, not to stalk anyway.
Preloved, I usually I look for Modernist or 'brutalist' jewellery. If I could afford Andrew Grima pieces I would hunt them down and bag them.
I seem to be slightly obsessed by Cartier's Trinity. 3s and multiples thereof are my lucky numbers. They are both stable and unstable, symmetrical and asymmetrical, odd and even.
I like VCA's onyx Alhambra and Lucky pieces, but where I am there's so much VCA (lots of Cartier too, especially Love). I'm not really into diamonds or translucent coloured stones (perhaps Alexandrite) but against all of what I normally go for, what I'd really like is VCA's Zip Necklace, but I'm afraid that will remain a dream, I look at these when the world is too much:
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The Zip necklace - Van Cleef & Arpels
A masterpiece of ingenuity, the Zip necklace stands out as one of Van Cleef & Arpels’ boldest creations. In the late 1930s, Renée Puissant, the Maison's Artistic Director and daughter of Estelle Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef, set out to develop a piece of jewelry inspired by the zipper. This idea...www.vancleefarpels.com
Me too! I spend wayyy too much time thinking about what could be the pefect oneTennis necklaces. I’m totally hooked. I must get one, and, have planted the seeds into the heads of my DH and daughter that I need this piece of jewelry in my life for my birthday!
Cartier Love Bracelets! I’m always looking at wrists!I think it is because I really want a second Love but my hubby is completely against the idea (he doesn’t like the look of them stacked). I’m hoping to convince him one day but for now will be happy with my one.
Strategic!!Tennis necklaces. I’m totally hooked. I must get one, and, have planted the seeds into the heads of my DH and daughter that I need this piece of jewelry in my life for my birthday!
It’s the price that gets you. Just bite the bullet and get it lolI've been hemming and hawing on a love bracelet for the longest time. I just can't pull the trigger ugh.
Most of there been there.I've been hemming and hawing on a love bracelet for the longest time. I just can't pull the trigger ugh.
Can you post a picture????