For more than ten years, Philip Crangi has made wrought metal jewelry his signature look. Barring his many collaborative projects with the likes of Jason Wu and Vera Wang, the charmingly grizzled designer consistently sticks to industrial materials like gunmetal brass, silver, and leather, but Crangi has decided to dress things up. Today, he launches [...]

This week at Milk Studios in New York, 62 photos (several of them previously unseen) of Marilyn Monroe will be on display for a two-day photo exhibition called Picturing Marilyn. The Dior dress she is wearing in her famous shoot with Bert Stern has been re-created and will be on display at the exhibit preview [...]

In a way, it was their sense of smell that brought Christiane Amanpour, Thom Browne, Derek Lam, and WSJ.’s Deborah Needleman together last night. British fragrance house Jo Malone organized an intimate dinner party at Peels for fans of the brand that turned out to be a stimulating potpourri of editors, thread-makers, and interior designers—the [...]

The Harper’s Bazaar-sponsored Accessories Bazaar opens today at the Lincoln Center tents at New York fashion week, where some of the best designers working—including Prova’s Irini Arakas, Albertus Swanepoel, Philip Crangi, and Fenton/Fallon’s jeweler extraordinaire, Dana Lorenz. To spotlight her new Spring ‘11 offerings, Lorenz created a short video with fashion’s go-to filmmaker, Sharif Hamza. [...]

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Ferragamo’s just hoping it’s the face that’ll move a couple thousand bottles. The label has just announced that Dree Hemingway will be the face of its upcoming fragrance, to be shot by Craig McDean. [Modelinia]Midtown Manhattan just got a little more dangerous—for us, at least: Uniqlo [...]

Perhaps it was a case of holiday spirit goggles, but there was something a bit Santa-at-the-workshop about Philip Crangi on Saturday: There were the rolled-up sleeves of his red tartan shirt, the engineer-stripe apron, and, of course, his glorious beard. (He just called it “butch drag.”) The jewelry designer spent the day at his new [...]

Jewelry designer Philip Crangi is poised to open the doors to his first retail space tomorrow evening, he told us at last night’s CFDA cocktail party at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Well, that is, as Crangi said, “If all goes well and the credit card machine arrives in the mail.” The 200-square-foot boutique at 9 [...]

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 [...]

Is there such a thing as a healthy addiction? Philip Crangi may have discovered one: The jewelry designer is, by all appearances, addicted to collaborations. The past few seasons have seen Crangi go on a creative spree, working with Vera Wang, Costello Tagliapietra, Shipley & Halmos, and, as part of his 2008 CFDA/Vogue nominee duties, [...]

This Wednesday, our favorite bearded jewelry designer, Philip Crangi, will launch his e-commerce site at gilesandbrother.com. Though his wares are available at Barneys Co-op’s Web site, Crangi decided to open e-shop because of the many phone calls his studio receives from people asking how they can get their hands on his bijoux. As a little [...]