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The Fashion Statement: Jewelry is Buggin' Out

Filed under: Jewelry, The Fashion Statement

What's with fine jewelry's never ending fascination with creepy crawlers?

The trend has been in full swing for years now, but the craze just won't, er, buzz off. Just look at Isabelle Adjani (pictured above) who had fish (courtesy of De Grisogono) wrapped around her wrists at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Thousands of dollars worth of gems diamonds, sapphires, blue topaz, rubies and more have gotten turned into frogs, dragonflies, spiders, reptiles, snakes, butterflies, bugs, stingrays, sea urchins...and all manner of little creatures.

I get serpents, particularly for their Ancient Egyptian connotations and mystical meaning. I wouldn't turn down Roberto Cavalli's Swarovski serpent bracelet, tagged $675, or Virgin's Saints and Angels temptation bracelet, $635, adorned with Pacific opals.

But you should see the price tag for bird-like claws and insects! For $1,188, you can get stacked rings that look like talons on designer Pamela Love's site. You can also snap up a very large cuff by Aurélie Bidermann, an 18K rendition of a web for $1,795 at net-a-porter.com. Neiman Marcus has bug stud earrings by Ileana Makri, for $3,750.

Dragonflies do quite well, too. At Ylang 23, Cathy Waterman's dragonfly bracelet is going for $28,800 while Barneys New York is promoting Vernissage's pendant necklaces, $1,650.

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Is The Adjani The New Birkin?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Handbags

Even in this economic climate there is still room for an it bag, it's just a more modest success than past frenzies. Lancel's Adjani bag named after the French actress Isabelle Adjani has sold out giving Lancel what the Guardian terms a "slight rise in comparable retail sales since January." Lancel's chief executive says the growth is between zero and five percent, barely a blip in other times but a welcome bit of retail uptick these days when only a few handbag brands like Hermes and Louis Vuitton have been able to sustain increases.

The versatile multi-pocketed tote comes in a variety of materials in a price range from 800 euros to 8,000 euros. It was inspired by Isabelle Adjani and she is the spokesperson for it. The company expects more than 10,000 Adjani bags in France by the end of the year, having already sold the equivalent of two years of stock in a few months. The success of the bag has encouraged the Lancel brand to skew toward the high end and the company will open new shops in Tokyo, Moscow and Dubai over the summer. So far Lancel, which makes its bags in Spain and Italy, does not have a presence here in the U.S.

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