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Buying Handmade Fashion Jewellery

This is the year that Chanel celebrates its 50th anniversary of the Novella which distinguished the fashion jewellery brand across the globe. So fifty years on in a world where diamante is the new diamond is there still room for a little blue box in our lives? Or is this now the world of fashion jewellery. As the credit crunch blocks your way to Cartier and the expensive jewellery’s you have no choice but to look for viable alternatives and fashion jewellery is fast becoming one of them. Dating back to the early1700′s fashion jewellery has been a part of fashion culture for more than 300 years, providing an inexpensive but beautiful substitute to fine jewellery through the use of materials such as simulated semi-precious beads and pendants.

Coco Channel in her collections often featured fashion jewellery; she helped to reinvent its purpose as an investment to a fashion accessory.

Replacing gold with gold plated and pearl with pearl effect beads the crime of going ‘fake’ has never been more accepted, and for what fashion jewellery lacks in precious materials, it makes up for in the unique and original designs. Most notably it is the outstanding designer Kenneth Jay Lane who, since the early 1960′s been creating unique and original piece for the likes of Audrey Hepburn, that has led the way in breaking free from the conventional restrictions when it comes to fashion jewellery design. Leaving chandelier earrings behind in favour of proportion defying necklaces and turquoise embellished cuffs. But possibly more excitingly is the wide range of fashion jewellery that is now available to us on the high street. Affordable, stylish, designer and attention grabbing jewellery, from Accessorize’s cocktail rings, beaded necklaces, semi-precious bracelets and earrings and charm bracelets dripping in bright and beautiful beads to Urban Outfitters kitsch pendant and cluster necklaces, fashion jewellry has become a statement of our own individuality.

And in this quest to find unique pieces of fashion jewellery that are original, it is individual online boutiques that offer one of a kind and limited designs. Up and coming jewellery designers, often students from the likes of Parsons school of design and Central Saint Martin’s are swapping mass production for handmade and individually sourced handmade jewellery and selling it online. Offering handmade fashion jewellery connoisseurs a chance to not only buy a one of a kind piece but to invest in the future of jewellery design.

Local Art and craft fairs are also a great place to be able to find stunning pieces of handmade jewellery that have been handcrafted into stunning pieces of fashion jewellery. If you are looking for something that is totally unique then this is where you may find what you are looking for. Also these jewellery designers may be able to make you something where you have a hand in the design so that you can have a fashion jewellery piece that has been handmade to suit exactly what you are looking for. Whichever you to choose have fun.

About the Author

Linda Goodman has been designing fashion jewellery now for over 15 years and her jewellery has been worn by many celebrities and people in the public eye. Her handmade jewellery leads when it comes to fashion design and she is always looking for new sources of inspiration.

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