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Margaret Rowe Vintage Couture Jewelry

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Designer Margaret Rowe believes that "vintage couture jewelry is the new precious." Her line of pieces combine vintage costume pieces with modern touches. The main elements in her necklaces are vintage pendants dating from the 1920s through the 1950s. She combines vintage with contemporary elements to create a frame or a 'modern silhouette' for the artpieces. She creates all of her pieces by hand and most are one-of-a-kind creations. She can also transform your vintage heirloom into a more wearable piece of art and can create a unique bespoke piece for you from her own vast vintage collection to your exact specifications. Prices in the collection run from from $250 to $2,000, the piece above which includes a 1940s flower blossom pendant sells for $795. Check out a few designs in the gallery below.

Gallery: Margaret Rowe Vintage Couture

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Arnold Scaasi For HSN

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Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi has designed for five first ladies including Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush but now he's doing something new, designing a jewelry line for home shoppers. Arnold Scaasi will be launching an exclusive jewelry collection on HSN December 5th that recreates his iconic fashion jewelry collection for a lower price point with all pieces retailing for under $100. The line features hematite, pearls, enamel and gemstones.

This isn't Scaasi first time with jewelry. The elder statesman of fashion designed jewelry from 1958 to 1965 creating bold costume pieces as well as runway jewelry pieces that appeared with his fashion pieces and were worn by glamourous Hollywood ladies. Samples of Scaasi's December collection are in the gallery below.

Gallery: Arnold Scaasi For HSN

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Getty Costume Jewelry Up For Auction

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Usually to purchase the jewels of a Getty you'd need some pretty deep pockets. But Ann Getty's collection doesn't just include precious gemstones, she also has a large collection of costume pieces, some of which are being auctioned over the weekend by Doyle New York. The collection includes pieces by Chanel, Miriam Haskell, Kenneth Jay Lane and others. And because they are costume pieces you'll be spending several hundred dollars for most pieces. The rhinestone necklace shown above is one of the pricier pieces. It was made in France in the 1950s and is estimated to sell for $750-$1,000.

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