Editor-in-Chief, Kyle Roderick

Hutton Wilkinson: The Jewelry Genie of Tony Duquette

Hutton Wilkinson’s jewelry  makes you look like the empress of an exotically chic, elegant empire. Dramatic in scale. Set in high karat golds or platinum. Alive with colored stones in deeply saturated hues… Hutton’s bijoux marry bold, one-of-a-kind designs with vibrant, highly textured gem materials that refract light to create  beautiful, surprising and sometimes surrealistic effects. Like psychedelic bohemian oxygen, Hutton Wilkinson’s jewelry breathes divine…

Estee Lauder’s Perfumed Bijoux: Jewelry Freak of the Week

Estee Lauder was a 20th century beauty tycoon who pioneered the design, production and marketing of bejeweled solid perfume compacts that doubled as pendants, bracelets and rings. Today Estee’s granddaughters Aerin and Jane are carrying on the tradition with  enchanting limited edition jewels and compacts.  All of the compacts below are available here. Limited Edition Golden Cocktail…

Highclere Castle/Downton Abbey Jewelry Box:  Jewelry Freak of the Week

What better place to safeguard your jewels than in a perfect replica of Highclere Castle, a.k.a. Downton Abbey? In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, the Victorian architectural splendor of Highclere Castle has become internationally celebrated thanks to several compelling seasons of the ITV Television series Downton Abbey. Made of…

Bejeweled Bags by Marchesa: Jewelry Freak of the Week

Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig of Marchesa are famous for designing dazzling dresses for the world’s most glamorous women. Marchesa 2014 autumn handbags, however, are equally dazzling. These beauties are bejeweled masterpieces that qualify as handbag porn! You need, you want, you must have one of these quartz-clasped and crystal-embellished bags! Hunt them at www.neimanmarcus.com…

LJ Cross Opens New York Flagship; Debuts in Select Saks Fifth Avenue Stores

Here at Bijoux Review, we instantly recognize haute luxe jewelry when we see it, feel it; wear it. That’s why we’re excited about the 90-piece debut collection from LJ Cross. Its bold yet sensuously soft Modernist aesthetic looks utterly fresh. At the same time, LJ Cross embodies classic and therefore ageless style. Informally elegant, understatedly alluring and always confident, these…

Verdura Celebrates 75th Anniversary

This Fall, to mark its 75th Anniversary on New York’s Fifth Avenue, Verdura is celebrating with The Power of Style: Verdura at 75, a retrospective exhibition featuring over 150 jewels created by master jeweler Duke Fulco di Verdura. Curated by fashion designer Carolina Herrera, her husband Reinaldo and their daughter Patricia Lansing, The Power of Style: Verdura at 75 is the most…

Loulou de la Falaise: The Glamorous Romantic

Loulou de la Falaise: The Glamorous Romantic by Ariel de Ravenel and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni (Rizzoli) Editor: Ariel de Ravenel Writer: Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Art Director: Alexandre Wolkoff Loulou de la Falaise: The Glamorous Romantic celebrates the creations of Anglo-French jewelry, accessories and clothing designer Loulou de la Falaise. Published in October, 2014, the book is insightfully…

Oscar de la Renta: R.I.P.

Besides being a superb fashion designer throughout the last half of the 20th century and up to his death in October 2014, Oscar de la Renta designed  highly luxurious, entrance-making and eye-grabbing fashion jewelry. This master of fashion also excelled at dreaming up irresistible bijoux that complemented his haute luxe looks. Consider the challenges involved in designing…

Loulou de la Falaise/Pierre Bergé Wallpaper: C’est Chic!

Loulou de la Falaise may have left this earth in November 2011, but in 2014, her work is having a Renaissance that’s as poetique, chic and fantastique as her thousands of fine jewelry designs, clothing and various haute luxe accessories. Interest in Loulou’s poetic and influential jewelry, accessories and clothing has been reignited by the newly published book, Loulou…