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...years since its founding, Swarovski has established itself as the largest supplier of high-end crystals to the fashion and design industries, adding sparkle to jewelry and evening bags as well as a growing number of interior-design products, from expected items such as chandeliers and vases to more original pieces like curtain tassels. Crystals are essentially sand and water and chemical coloring agents fired and then cut and polished by machine, so a factory visit would seem harmless...
...says, she realized Swarovski had not been effective at communicating its link with fashion. She launched several initiatives, including setting up a showroom in New York, where American designers are invited to paw through 200 drawers filled with crystals. There are event sponsorships and clever collaborations with fashion and interior designers, the most successful of which has been Crystal Palace, launched in 2002 for inventive lighting projects. Several of them, particularly Norwegian designer Tord Bontje's Blossom chandeliers in the shape of a branch (the small one is priced $15,500), have been widely copied. "We never just give money...
Langes-Swarovski argues that crystal should not be considered a mere pedestrian trim. "It's more of an expressive element than a zipper or a button. In all the various creative disciplines, whether it's fashion or interior design, crystal has a role of amplifying creative expression," he says. "With Liberace or in the late '90s, crystal was sometimes a metaphor for superficiality because of this bling-bling element." Today, however, company executives talk about the "poetry of precision" and how to take founder Daniel Swarovski's original ideas to new levels...
...FRIENDLY SKIES are now also fabulous thanks to Versace's partnership with the TAG Group to design and manufacture the interiors of private jets. Top clients will work with Versace designers to personalize their aircraft, using pieces from the brand's home line that have been adapted to follow standard aviation-interior guidelines. The Italian design house will be responsible for all content and décor, while the TAG group, which has 30 years of experience in preparation and management of large private jets, will guarantee the logistical and technological aspects of the partnership...
...Marc Jacobs, this earthy antidote to spring's barely-there nude palette also turns up on cosmetics counters in Chanel's Safari eyeshadow and on must-have accessories like Versace's '80s-inspired spike-heeled patent pumps and Kara Ross's smoky topaz cuff. According to Thom Filicia, interior designer of Queer Eye fame, mushroom's popularity both on the runway and in the home can be attributed to our collective obsession with all things organic: "Consumers' fashion choices are being influenced by the popular natural-and-organic trend...