The weekend before the kickoff of New York fashion week, up-and-coming jewelry designer Bliss Lau threw a small dinner to toast her Fall ‘11 collection of feudally inspired chain and leather body jewelry—or “sensual armor,” as she calls it. (She often takes design inspiration from the arms and armor wing of the Met.) “I like [...]

The era of the It bag is over. The reign of the outfit-dominating shoe is, I suspect, on the wane. So, prepare yourself, fashion fiends, for the jewelry moment: There’s no better evidence that bijoux is the new king—queen?—of all accessories than the fact that two jewelry designers, Pamela Love and Arielle de Pinto, are [...]

“The best executive,” Theodore Roosevelt once said, “is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done.” Anna Larson is a case in point: The designer of the new line Erro has taken an executive approach to the launch of her brand. Larson, who moved to New York [...]