I love these chunky bangles and pendants from Calvin Klein, made of a mixture of leather and metal. Called the Spellbound collection, the pieces are available in black leather with silver and cream leather with either yellow or red gold PVD (a coated metal).
I’ll have one of each, thanks – I can think of very little these pieces wouldn’t go with!
The collection is available from Arnotts in March, and ranges from €77 to €113.
Recently, I was eating in Crackbird on South William St – where, really, I seem to eat all of the time lately, and always order the same thing*, and love and hope it never closes – when I asked a girl next to me where she got her cuff. It was a gorgeous, studded gold show-stopper, and teamed with her black leggings and oversized white shirt, she cut a very Lykke Li figure.
Then, because I’m a creep-slash-fashion-blogger, I took a picture of said cuff, from Forever 21. Then I ate some soy garlic chicken, thought about her a bit, and got even creepier when I asked if she was a model. She wasn’t – but she should be, which is where the internet comes in! I want to find this girl. Not because I want to marry her, although wouldn’t that be sweet?, but because I want her to model in a shoot for me. (I’m not a porn director, for the record, I’m a stylist, and I think she’d be perfect for a shoot I’m thinking of . . .)
I want to find this girl. So please, pass this around, retweet it, Facebook it, help me find her! Just ‘cos.
* In case you wondered, if there are two of us, I go all macho 1980s dude and order for us, and I get: half soy garlic chicken, chilli chicken crunches, potato salad, slaw, burnt lemon and whipped feta dip (by two!), srirracha dip (by one) and a rhubarb lemonade. I let my partner choose their own drink. I’m nice like that.
This was printed in the real newspaper (imagine!) on May 21st, but worth highlighting again:
Rua Red arts centre in Tallaght is holding an exhibition entitled Ornament, curated by Irish jeweller Angela O’Kelly.
The exhibition, which runs until June 18th, showcases jewellery crafted by artists from Ireland and the UK, and includes work from Eily O’Connell, a Waterford-based artist who graduated from Carrowbeg College in Westport in 2004.
O’Connell uses natural shapes and organic materials to craft beautifully intricate, sometimes eerie and almost frightening pieces of jewellery that seem to simultaneously mimic and distort nature. Her work utilises organic matter in an unorthodox way to create hybrid pieces of wearable craft. Her pieces recall a heritage of Irish craft and a tradition of work based on nature, while also hinting at the chaotic fragmentation of our natural environment is undergoing. Mesmerising? Yes. Beautiful? Without a doubt.
Ornament runs until June 18th at Rua Red, by the Tallaght Luas stop, Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm. Admission is free. See ruared.ie for details.
A couple of weeks ago I got sent a pair of earrings in the post from Trendenzas, an online company that appears to work much like Living Social and CityDeals, except that it doesn’t offer you a wash and blowdry every second day.
ANYWAY, the point is, I have these earrings, I have taken a beautiful photograph of them with my iPhone, and I am going to give them away! Leave a comment below to be in with a chance of winning – and this has reminded me to pick the winners for last week’s Converse watch giveaway, which I will do forthwith! Now get commentin’!
They’re really very nice, the earrings, as it happens.
At long last, have finally got around to doing my January competition (the first, hopefully, of many in 2011): to win two Converse watches.
The watches, available at jewellers nationwide and from Timemark, retail at €89 and are “sports style” inspired by the Converse legacy, or some such thing.
I just like them because they’re chunky and would look cool with loads of gold jewellery.
SO! Without further ado, register your name below for a chance to enter. Say something funny, you know I like that.
The competition closes on Friday, January 21st, at midnight. No correspondence will be entered into, and the judge’s (ie, my) decision is final.
Now I might be regretting my Links of London purchase, because this YSL ring is making me come over all romantic. It would just go with everything. EVERYTHING. It is awesome. So ridiculously beautiful . . .
Not only is this ring amazing, both beautiful and tough at once, and entirely perfect for my entire wardrobe, but it gives me the perfect excuse to post this photograph of Lykke Li, which I have been holding for a while, awaiting the correct hook.
Photo by John Lindquist. Moral? There’s no such thing as too much jewellery.
Accessorize is one of those stores I pop into pretty regularly, and rarely emerge empty-handed. While I may be on a bit of a self-enforced shopping ban, following a jewellery splurge on Asos, the internet is the window-shopper’s paradise. Here are my picks from the current collection:
It’s funny how trends come around – a year ago, I was very much anti rings, thinking that they made my stubby fingers look, well, even stubbier. Now, however, stubbiness be damned: all I want are legions of rings to stack up and down each stubby little digit. The problem is, where to find these rings . . . ? I’ve been scouring my local high street stores, and while A|Wear and Topshop both have reasonable selections, I have an immense fear of that dreaded green-finger syndrome, and €15 seems too much to spend on a ring that is made out of discarded Coke cans, or old tin whistles.
So it’s little wonder that these rings, by Daisy Jewellery, are now top of my wishlist.
Look at how gloriously stackable they are! And here’s another thing: gold and silver! TOGETHER! It breaks all the rules but, like shorts and tights, these are rules that are, these days, meant to be broken. Isn’t it glorious that fashion rules are going out the window, as an aside? I am currently wearing navy and black. TOGETHER. Wow, I know, I’m so subversive.
Now, only in my dreams do I have fingers this long, but wouldn’t that make a beautiful photograph of your dressing table? The bad news is, of course, that these rings don’t come all that cheap – individual rings range from €30 to €95, and stacking sets from €80 to €240. Stockists, from May, will include Arnotts, Clery’s and A Hartmann & Son in Galway. Call 01-6774626 for more stockists.
I might be a bit late on this one, as everyone – and I mean everyone – has covered the whole ring-heavy hands trend, but when I saw these on Maria Nilsdotter, I had to do something. And, surprise, surprise, that something was to make a collage!
I’ve never been a huge ring person, as I have quite stubby fingers (by my own reckoning) and they’ve always just served to cut my fingers off at the essential slenderising point, but for these babies I’m sure I could make an exception. The key here seems to be to pile ‘em up in an irreverent fashion, caring not for norms and matching (I’ve never been a big fan of matching in any case) and hope for the best. Plus, they might give you crazy-good biceps, Michelle Obama style. . .
