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...Paloma Picasso, 58, the daughter of Pablo Picasso, has finally seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring...
...Bergdorf Goodman has experienced significant growth in jewelry sales over the past year, according to Sydney Price, vice president of jewelry and watches, so it makes sense that this fall the New York City retailer will open a special room showcasing its high-end collections?from $3,500 Kieselstein-Cord earrings up to a million for Siegelson vintage pieces. Customers looking to spend extravagantly will be offered a private setting in which to view exquisite jewelry from such names as Michelle Ong, De Grisogono and Buccellati...
...parents were social activists; her own activism began in college, where she organized local farmers. So in 1964 when clinical psychologist Carolyn Goodman's son Andrew wanted to go to Mississippi to help black voters register, she said, "we couldn't talk out of both sides of our mouths. We had to let him go." After Andrew and two other civil rights workers were murdered by Klansmen, Carolyn raised her national profile, repeatedly giving interviews at home among photos of Andrew and using her prominence to support myriad civil rights causes...
...there's an intersection with the fashion world. Hence the increasing levels of excitement surrounding Farfelus Farfadets, a charming collection of papier-mâché sculptures that French couple Anne Freisz and Laurant Poumarat have been designing since 1996. Displaying the handmade works of art, which are available at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and mostly take the form of animals but also the odd musical instrument, has become a rite of passage of sorts for Paris' chicest shops: the sculptures have appeared in the store windows of Christian Lacroix, Chopard, Yves Saint Laurent and Le Bon March?...
...Reviewer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...