NYC Museum Exhibit Spotlights Designer Jewelry Chanel, Miriam Haskell & More
"I used around the main difficulties to my brain, why fashion jewelry wrap was so expensive," said style consultant in Los Angeles and retailer Cameron Silver on a new episode of his TV show based Bravo reality Dukes of Melrose. "Then I realized, this is really art."
Fine jewelry retailers who have suffered a "disconnect" with the idea of ??paying premiums for copper, rhinestones, and a sense of common silver plastic.
But "fashion jewelery: Collection of Barbara Berger," the 25 June makes opened at the Museum of New York City of the Arts and Design (very convincingly) that the grace and innovation in jewelry design. are not always based on luxurious materials (Coco Chanel, the most striking fashion legend, perhaps said it best when she yelled, "costume jewelry is not made to women an aura of wealth, but also make them beautiful.")
Pens exhibition of more than 400 pieces of jewelry fashion design houses, including Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Kenneth Jay Lane, Lanvin, Missoni, Oscar de la Renta, Pucci, and Miriam Haskell. Also on display are contemporary pieces by designers such as David Mandel, Iraj Moini, Robert Sorrell, Daniel Von Weinberger and Lawrence Vrba.
Miriam Haskell is a co-sponsor of the exhibition organized by the Chief Operating Officer of Haskell jewelry, Gabrielle Fialkoff, an intimate cocktail opening with McFadden and Berger 25 June
The daughter of an American diamond began, Berger gathers as a teenager, when she was a pair of Chanel earrings packed in a French flea market. Since then, she has amassed more than 4,000 pieces of jewelry, one of the largest collections of designer fashion jewelry in the world.
"The Barbara Berger collection is unique in that it regularly collected over many decades, always in search of the finest jewelry and most recognizable of all major design houses," David Revere McFadden, chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design tells JCK. "His collection is certainly not the way of the variety" flea market "jewelry, it is read the dramatic and theatrical works and the track. Brilliant They are also found evidence of the excellence of craft in the best design studios."
McFadden name Chanel pieces ("always a feast for the eyes"), as well as the works of early designers as the CIS, Trifari and Coro-soloists of the show.
The first, open until 20 January projectors parts American and European design houses Chanel, Balenciaga, House Gripoix, Marcel Boucher, Miriam Haskell and Trifari. The exhibition is divided into two sections, the second section, opened September 22 pieces thematically, materials, colors and patterns groups.
Berger, of the collection to a treasure hunt in the comparison, said in a statement: "In order of collecting fashion jewelry talk about life, style, heart and passion to speak the end of my collection was one of the highlights of my life My collection functions for.. interesting to me extraordinary, unique design full of imagination and a sense of humor. This is usually the lightning. "