While we can’t predict what a wedding will look like in a hundred years, as the saying goes, “the future is now.” Current technology, materials, and skill sets allow inventive designers to create wedding bands that would have been unthinkable to brides a century ago.
Okay, so we’re sure that you’ve seen that blog post on social media, where a fiancée showed off how disappointed she was with her engagement ring. It was a wire of gold with a diamond that wasn’t any bigger than a grain of salt.
Art Nouveau (French for “New Art”) constitutes a period of artistic history between 1890 and 1910. A truly unique blossoming of ideas, Art Nouveau spread like wildfire through Europe and into the wider world, including the Americas and China.
Readers of our blog will note our passion for rose and yellow gold as a colorful way of expressing one’s personality. But while these materials may be popular among different age cohorts of women, the third common shade of gold rarely gets as much attention from fashion experts–white gold.
Jewelry doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Rather, it’s a set of traditions, skills, and visions that are passed down from master to pupil. Every nation in the history of the world has created some form of jewelry, and while technologies may be common between people, style and methods of design rarely are. A jewelry aficionado has a lot of options when it comes to exploring the beauty of various nations’ jewelry traditions.
Sometimes, taking the high femme approach to jewelry and timepieces is too predictable. But let’s say you don’t feel drawn to the real stone look that some k.d. Lang aesthetes can pull off. What can you do? Embrace the kind of look that our goddess, Marlene Dietrich, pioneered.
When you’re searching for a rectangular diamond for your engagement ring’s center stone, you’ve got three common choices: princess-cut, emerald-cut, and cushion-cut stones. But when your choices are so diverse, how can you judge which rectangular shape is right for you?
The happy medium between colored gems and white diamonds, the colored diamond is a treasure whose fancy hues blend with the diamond’s natural fire. If you’re looking for a piece of jewelry, why not take a peek at colored diamond elegance?
It’s as important for women to project authority in the workplace as a man. To that end, a woman can choose a look that expresses a sense of power, poise, and expertise. This lady boss realness can be summoned by many different qualities: power clothing, demeanor, hairstyles, and makeup.
We’ve discussed in previous blog posts the popularity of rose gold among contemporary women, but while rose gold remains the #1 trend of the late 2010s, there’s quite a few other trends that seem particularly yoked to wedding band fashion.