It seems, starting a new year and new internship has left me nothing less than neglectful to PRC. I have to get better at balancing new activities with old activities. It’s like this song I learned in grade school, “make new friends, but keep the old…” I’ve always struggled with that concept, when I move I cut pretty much all ties, unfortunately or fortunately depending on the ties.
I also have an odd severing tendency when it comes to jewelry. For some odd reason, I can’t bring myself to obsess over more than one type of jewelry at a time. During my last years of high school, I love large chandelier earrings. Then, after making the move from the Mid-West to the East Coast, I canned the earring and draped myself in necklaces, but now I’m starting to lust after over-sized rings for the new year.
Perhaps that is my unconscious way of self-censoring. I’ve never liked delicate jewelry, only the big and bold— an assume repercussion of growing up in the “super-size it” glory days— and, without some sort of censoring mechanism I might end up looking like I was attacked by Claire’s.
When looking for original jewelry, Etsy seemed like the obvious place to head, and lucky I did because options were found and a new jewelry obsession was secured. For less than $20 each I could satiate my urge to either be extremely art nouveu (Glint) or sweet an girlie (Heatherly Designs) all while sporting a great cocktail ring.
Now the trick is to balance my long-time love of layered necklaces with my flavor of the week, cocktail rings. Tricky, tricky!
Generally speaking, I don’t wear rings. I’m much too fidgety to safely wear something so small and easy to slide off. That being sad, I adore the ‘Daisy Mini-Knucks’ double knuckle ring from 31 Corn Lane.
Not only does the ring mix the tom boyish double knuckle ring with girlie jeweled flowers, but at only $10 I can play with the ring all I want without worrying I’ll lose an expensive piece of jewelry.
The Sperbers never cease to impress me. They’re seasonal handbag collections are always adorable and now they’re making me want to wear rings— devastating!
If you’re in the NY area and just can’t stand paying for shipping, you can visit the Sperber sisters at their booth at The Bust Craftacular on December 14 from 10 AM to 7:30 PM at the Metropolitan Pavillion.
Though I am a PR major, I realize the best designer tip-offs come from other bloggers and not the designer’s individual publicists. To be honest, this actually helps the designer, because as you can guess, we’re more likely to pay attention to a brand if a peer suggests it rather than a gusher-for-hire— no offense to my, hopefully, eventual colleagues. Browsing other blogs is how I found accessory designer Ashley Watson.
While reading the blog Couture Salope in October, I stumbled across a post featuring some of the most subtly-beautiful leather handbags I’d seen in quite some time. I became even more intrigued after reading that all of Ashley Watson’s accessories were made of recycled leather. The recycled leather gives the bags the soft feel and perfectly worn look of your favorite, old leather jacket.
To me, recycled leather is something like vintage fur. No extra animals were murdered to make the specific bag so it is almost 100% okay. Plus, the bag is eco-friendly without being completely made of hemp.
Though you may not be able to get the Spring ‘09 collection including the red version of the ‘Thrush’ Bag until February, you can get the ‘Thrush’ bag in black for $250 at shopfatal.com or for a bit more at their other stockists.
Its been almost 4 months since I first learned of Ban.do, but it still happens to be my favorite feathered hair-bobble retailer. So, when I received an email saying they were going to have a trunk show at Henri Bendel in December, I couldn’t help but be overly-excited for them. Sure, I’m not one of the awesome girls doing the creating, but when something good happens to someone/thing I like, excitement and pride in their success follow.
The Bendel’s trunk show will be from December 4th through December 6th and Jen & Jamie promise to have tons of new goodies to purchase.
Not only will there be a trunk show, also meaning a great opportunity to meet the Ban.do girls, the girls have decided to redesign their website to make it cuter and more functional for all the hair accessory lovers out there.
In all their excitement, the Ban.do team is taking 15% off everything. Meaning, that $130 flower headband you wanted is only $110 and the $75 feather clip is only $64. Click your way to the website if you’re interested because the sale ends at the end of this month.
You know that completely mythical bond you create with your favorite celebs— like when you’re a thousand percent sure that cute musician was looking you dead in the eye at his concert even though you were in the nosebleed section. Well, I do that with designers. There are some designers that just make me swoon and laugh awkwardly to myself by seeing pictures of there clothes, or on a good day, by seeing them kid around in a video online. The Proenza guys are some of those designers.
Going through my backed-up inbox, I stumbled across this video from style.com about the new Proenza Schouler handbag line. The bags Jack and Lazaro talked about were so fantastic, and I loved how they have been discreetly giving their ‘PS 1′ bag to friends and having them carry them around for photo ops— how secret agent!
It was also delightful to hear a designer say they wanted their products to be used and beaten up, because everything gets better with age, right?
Watch the video, swoon over bags, and gawk at the dichotomy between Jack and Lazaro.
