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Cameos: Making A Comeback

October 20, 2011  9:27 am

What’s old is new once more. During the Spring shows, we noticed more than a few front-row fixtures decked out in cameos. “It is a true renaissance,” says Amedeo Scognamiglio, whose family has been hand-carving the baubles since 1857. “My father always told me, ‘Cameos may get ill, but they never die.’ ” For proof that these portrait pieces are alive and kicking, see Miroslava Duma in a necklace and ring set, Shala Monroque with an oversize brooch, and Giovanna Battaglia wearing earrings to match her Gio signet ring. In-demand designers have recently latched onto the vintage trend, too. Tom Binns’ latest collection spotlights Technicolor cameos, and Dolce & Gabbana showed them on its Fall runway. But in terms of showstoppers, the tiara that Princess Victoria of Sweden wore to her wedding last year (a crown that originally belonged to Napoleon’s Empress Josephine) definitely takes the cake.

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tags: Amedeo Scognamiglio, Dolce & Gabbana, Giovanna Battaglia, Miroslava Duma, Princess Victoria of Sweden, Shala Monroque, Tom Binns

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1. I follow you from Peru and I loved your note. I am about to wear my grand mother’s cameo brouch on a D&G chiffon dress at the World Monuments Fund pre Gala dinner chez Monsieur Molyneux, in NY, this wednesday. you just gave me another reason to do it!! thank yoou so much!!

   By gsammarco on 10/23/11 at 4:43 pm

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