Caution: Objects Seen Through Ring May Be Smaller Than They Appear
Delfina Delettrez seems to have the most fun of any designer out there. To wit, she based her entire Fall jewelry collection on a table-sized shoe-sorting contraption from the fifties found in an old factory in Florence. It was also the physical star of her presentation yesterday, with all her new pieces displayed on its [...]
Blasblog: Go Gentle Into That Good Night
For two guys who started the crotch-baring, NSFW, gay—make that very gay—magazine BUTT, Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom are far more well mannered than you might expect. They’ve even gone so far as to call their new women’s magazine The Gentlewoman—paging Miss Prim! But even if their first and latest mags—a glossier, more fashion-oriented [...]
On Our Radar : Delfina Delettrez’s Silver Finger Ring And Nail Polish Set
We get excited about customized gifts. (Who could say no, for example, to a personalized Goyard bag or a fur with one’s initials embroidered in the lining?) Delfina Delettrez is offering a much less traditional take on the idea with her silver finger ring, which comes with a bottle of nail polish. It’s a concept [...]
Just Opened: Opening Ceremony’s Little House Of Accessories
Accessories, I am sorry to report, do not get a good shake from the Great Thinkers. Seneca, for example, said, “They that mistake life’s accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze.” John Lennon posited that drugs are accessories to normal living, in a society too cruel to be [...]
Blasblog from Paris: Julia von Boehm’s Intimate Birthday
For Julia von Boehm, the stylist who recently moved to New York, her birthday party Monday night was a major Parisian homecoming—and not just because she was back in her native city. In fact, if she was honest, that wasn’t even such a plus—”I much, much prefer New York,” she admitted. “I actually can’t wait [...]
paris fashion week: for the fendis, talent is in the bones
Delfina Delettrez may be Fendi by name (the 21-year-old jewelry designer is the daughter of Silvia Venturini Fendi), but that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s a Fendi by nature. Take the skeleton-wrist piece, crafted from hundreds of tiny yellow, orange, and white sapphires, she was wearing at her Delirium collection preview at the Palais Royal yesterday [...]






