Van Cleef & Arpels Polar bear brooch in white gold
What are you doing for New Year's Eve? The Polar Bear Club of Coney Island, founded over a century ago and famous for its annual January first dive into the Atlantic Ocean, is looking forward to having you join in this intensely masochistic activity. The party starts in the morning on the promenade and thousands of people show up, but, let's be honest - what fun is that?;
Especially since the winter weather offers so many other compensations - those famous chestnuts roasted over an open fire (Question: has anyone ever eaten them?) - those magical holiday window displays (they are dwindling! Bring back the department stores!)- the excuse to wrap yourself in piles of cashmere and, not least, the chance to appreciate our snowy friends, the polar bears, who, unlike us, are happy no matter how cold the weather. Dazzling in their magnificent animal glory, they are never as glamorous as this one, rendered in natural diamonds and platinum and hidden here.
Clip Van Cleef & Arpels “Cerf” Deer
Long before discussions of diversity and inclusion became a central issue in the national debate, there was Rudolf. Scorned and mocked by his fellow reindeer - for being different; for shining! - he was elevated by Santa Claus who saw his inner qualities and the special role he could play.
How old is this beleaguered ghostly mammal. According to the Smithsonian. When the Montgomery Ward department store asked one of its copywriters, 34-year-old Robert L. May, to create a Christmas story that the store could hand out to shoppers as a promotional gimmick... In the first year of publication, 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story were distributed by Montgomery Ward. May's son-in-law, songwriter Johnny Marks, decided to adapt Rudolph's story into a song. Marks“ musical version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949.“.
In the decades that followed, how many of us felt excluded from the reindeer games. Only to triumph later in life. This exquisite and wildly eccentric deer stands out far from the common herd. With its shower of stones, and if its nose isn't red, it certainly glows. Along with the rest of his body, which is made up of natural diamonds, black spinels and pearls.
Chanel Comète earring and Ruban ring
My parents didn't take us to the Radio City Christmas Show. I don't think it was just because we were Jewish, although of course that didn't help. But my dad, a proud stage unionist, actually had a preference for higher forms of mass entertainment. A Sondheim show, say, instead of a circus. So it wasn't until I came of age and went to the Radio City Show with Michael Musto and his aunt-a genuine nun!-that I saw the Rockettes. Along with the abridged version of The Nutcracker, which is part of this wonderful, unchanging New York institution.
And one thing is certain. As magnificent as this art deco architectural masterpiece is, “Everybody laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they're fighting to get in!” wrote Ira Gershwin in 1937, five years after its opening. We're sure the Chanel jewelry adorning this nutcracker would look much better shining on your pretty finger. Or dangling from your earlobe rather than adorning this wooden guy.
Classic DeBeers star pendant
I've never skied. When I was in college, I have a vague memory of spending the weekend at a retreat somewhere in the snowy north, in Maine. Vermont. I wore a puffy velvet dress and got quietly wasted and never left the lodge. This complete lack of athletic ability (I suck at summer sports too) did not, however, prevent me from becoming a Winter Olympics enthusiast, not at all ashamed to comment rigorously on the form and function of the medal candidates from the comfortable confines of my couch.
I'd probably be more willing to walk down a runway, or at least make a snow angel in Central Park, if I wore a diamond DeBeers flake around my neck. Ooh - cold and wet! So maybe not... but a diamond snowflake. Flakes themselves, like natural diamonds: no two are exactly alike. It would certainly enhance any skier's gear one would wear this winter.
David Webb Heraldic Snowflake brooch
“We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Observed my very good friend, the brilliant Oscar Wilde, in 1892. Poor Oscar, born so far ahead of his time. What a star he was in his own short life, and what a star he would be if he were with us now, walking our same streets, trapped in the filth of our plebeian lives, but looking up to the heavens.
The double meaning of the star is never stronger than in this winter season, bringing to mind the luminaries we honour. Not only the stars of entertainment, but also the stars of kindness, intelligence and generosity! Those unsung stars who make our own lives rich and wonderful. Along with the heavenly bodies that shine high above us in the winter sky. Could any glow shine brighter than this tribute to the galaxy. An almost too elaborate, stunning creation by David Webb that is breathtaking and showcases brilliant cut diamonds.
Source: naturaldiamonds.com
