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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.
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Tags: When it comes the time when we have to go out gift shopping most of us would run to the hills.So putting some time aside at home to search the internet for the special gifts is the easiest way of doing you’re shopping as you can do it in the comfort of your own arm chair and at a time that suits yourself.
When it comes to buying presents for the ladies in my life I love to give jewellery as a gift and handmade beaded fashion jewellery seems to be the most appreciated. There are many sites out there on the internet that supply these beautiful pieces of fashion jewellery in the most stunning of beaded designs. You just have to spend a little time looking for these pieces if unique jewellery.
Young girls always like to be a head of the fashion trends so a piece of handmade beaded fashion jewellery is the ideal present for them. You can choose from collections of beaded earrings that have been designed into beautiful fashion jewellery pieces from collections of handmade glass beads and these are great inexpensive handmade presents. I am sure that if you were to give a young girl some fashion earrings as a handmade present it will be well received.