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While it seems like a natural extension, we don’t often see jewelers moving into the world of creating high-end handbags. Bochic took that leap to some beautiful results.

Jewelry brand Bochic will introduce a line of evening clutch bags in September, marking the brand’s first extension beyond fine jewelry.

Bochic will introduce the handbag collection at the Westin Hotel Paris during Paris Fashion Week, after which it will be available worldwide through events such as trunk shows and on the Bochic website.

Price points start at $2,500.

The bags in the  initial collection are called “Alicia, “Gilda” and Madeleline,” each inspired by film noir of the 1950s. Each style includes detailed gold handles that were made in Rome, meant to complement the leathers used for the body of the bag–crocodile, python, serpentine and sting ray.

To connect the line with the brand’s heritage, each bag also will feature jewelry detailing, created the same way as Bochic jewels, using enamel and natural precious stones such as rock crystal, onyx, and turquoise.

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The “Madeleine,” pictured above,  starting at $2,500.

And I think the overall ring is JUST GORGEOUS! You guys really nailed the look of the pictures I sent you. I love its daintiness and vintage-ness. I think you guys just did a beautiful job recreating it and I couldn’t.be.happier.

Nicki Minaj is known for her over-the-top costumes and award ceremony outfits.But at the MTV Movie Awards last night, she chose a more subdued and sophisticated look.We like it because its a great example of jewelry perfectly paired with a sleek black dress with clean lines.Take note of the cage necklace, drop-hoop earrings, multiple arm cuffs and bracelets, and statement rings.

Daan Roosegaarde found a way to incorporate a noxious mixture like pollution and fog to create a high-end designer product, the smog ring. Credit Studio Roosegaarde

More and more eco-friendly jewelers are coming up with pieces that contribute to a cleaner world, whether using recycled materials, or in this case, smog.

“It’s weird how the city [Beijing] is covered in smog and no one is doing anything,” Daan Roosegaarde remembers thinking.

What started as a common — albeit worrying — observation, soon became a quest for the designer: He wanted to find a way to incorporate the noxious mixture of pollution and fog in another one of the poetic-pragmatic projects for which he has become famous since founding Studio Roosegaarde some six years ago.

The result is a highly ambitious project by Studio Roosegaarde to create smog-free parks in Beijing.

Daan Roosegaarde found a way to incorporate a noxious mixture like pollution and fog to create a high-end designer product, the smog ring. Credit Studio Roosegaarde

And a by-product of that project is the smog ring, an elegant piece of designer jewelry intrinsically linked to the new reality of urban pollution and the fight against it.

“I like the notion that you take something high-end and combine it with the problematic,” he said.

The ring — which is still in its design phase — will be a simple band mounted with a small clear center stone containing smog particles extracted from Beijing city air. The black dust, which is largely carbon soot from coal, will be configured in a millimeter cube, to symbolize a cubic kilometer of smog that each ring has cleared.

It’s happened to all of us (well, all who wear earrings!). You lose the back of your earring and you’re not at home to find a spare in your jewelry box.

Here are some DIY approaches to get your through the evening:

Pencil eraser: Make a hole in the eraser with the earring. Tried and true method.

Cork: Same principle holds true with a cork. Just break off a little piece and make a hole

Aluminum foil: (Bet you didn’t know this one works!) A piece of foil folded several times over will do the job.

Kate Middleton continues to break ground as a royal fashionista, frequently wearing the works of jewelers from the countries she visits. This time, the lucky winners are New Zealand’s Tory and Ko.

Designer Victoria Taylor and business partner Kirstin O’Brien said she was “very specific” in her choices and selected two pairs of earrings from Tory & Ko’s “Pretty Collection”, another pair of pearl and diamond white gold earrings and a matching pearl necklace with diamond keepers from the “Bespoke Collection”.

 

Here are Kate’s choices:

TORY & KO

TORY & KO

TORY & KO

TORY & KO

 

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