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Feb 24, 2010
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Feb 23, 2010
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Feb 22, 2010
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Feb 20, 2010
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Feb 12, 2010
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The jump to designer valentine tiffany jewelry jewellery jewellery not much of a stretch for Miceli, whose early life was a Parisian Bohemian fantasy: Her father, Stefano Miceli, tiffany pendants by his art books, and her mother, Dominique Miceli, a noted fashion stylist, carted her off to shoots with Guy Bourdin. "The house was always filled with artists cheap tiffany pendants photographers. It was a crazy atmosphere," Miceli remembers. Azzedine Ala'ia, a good friend of her mother's, who later gave Miceli an internship at age 16, saw to it that Miceli got her first designer outfit-brown leggings with a matching sweater and valentine pendants man's shoes-tiffany pendants she turned 12; from there, a fearless dresser was born.Miceli still goes about garbed in the manner that pleases her-and only her. "Inadvertently, it often pleases others," notes Jacobs. Miceli is known to mix up her old Chanel with old and new Alaïa; she also throws in bits of Louis Vuitton and vintage YSL, plucked from her mother's illustrious closet. She usually accessorizes with treasures she has found on her most recent adventure, whether it be in Kenya or Vienna. Her look is always completed by wickedly high heels-any of the 400 pairs that tumble out of her three bedroom closets. "Camille has shown up in some pretty wacky concoctions," says Jacobs with a laugh. "One time, on a trip to Italy, she decided to wear a fishnet cashmere sweater. It was cheap tiffany bracelets, and Camille was valentine bracelets. The sweater, tiffany bracelets with a simple, slim trouser, turned heads tiffany bracelets we arrived at 10:30 A.M. at the Rome airport." Miceli maintains that her more risqu¨¦ days are now behind her: "At Chanel, I used to go to the office in minishorts-almost like a bathing suit with a little jacket. I can't do that anymore! Now that I have a five-year-old child, I don't go around naked," she says, giggling. "The most important thing is that whatever you put on, you have to assume it totally. If you are naked, if you are dressed like a nun, you have to assume it and handle it. Voil¨¤!


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Feb 11, 2010
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Feb 10, 2010
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Feb 9, 2010
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The same carefree, valentine day tiffany jewellery tiffany jewellery philosophy applies to her home, a bright fifthfloor apartment that she shares with her son, tiffany money clips money clips. Miceli has decorated the tiffany money clips cheap tiffany money clips with a collage of styles and furniture, either picked up on a whim or made to measure. A reindeer rug from Sweden (captured when she went to investigate ice blocks for Louis Vuitton's Fall 2004 show), a rugged tiffany money clips sofa (from her weekend vacation spot, L¨¨ge-Cap Ferret, on France's Atlantic coast) and a square Christian Liaigre chair (handed down from Marc Jacobs) are just as beloved as her more toned-down pieces, such as a Jacqueline Morabito dining-room table and Jean Prouv¨¦ chairs. Sprinkled throughout the space is a growing art collection that alternates between sophisticated contemporary works by Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami and kitsch artifacts, such as plastic dolls and Brazilian diorama scenes.Though she's known valentine necklaces the fabulously cosmopolitan tiffany key rings she throws for Louis Vuitton, Miceli's home provides the perfect backdrop for friends-only dinner parties. "I love to entertain in my house, but I never have a waiter serving dinner, I hate that," she says. "And I love to do my table." cheap tiffany necklaces for her evenings at home, out come the white tablecloth, vintage china, antique silver, colored glasses, crystal Baccarat carafes for wine and water and a Herm¨¨s porcelain ashtray for each guest. Then there's the table decoration, which could be composed tiffany necklaces anything from a whimsical mix of plastic dolls, Chanel nail tiffany earrings and lipsticks to Coca-Cola cans for added color.


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Feb 8, 2010
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I'm adding my sparkle, tiffany on sale tiffany sale tiffany jewelry touch," says Neil Lane of his collaboration with diamond giant De Beers. "I'm doing discount tiffany bangles tiffany 1837 jewelry my best stuff." Known tiffany bangles sale tiffany bangles sale screen sirens like Demi Moore, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Garner with glitzy retro-style designs, Lane was tapped by the firm to make a special line of jewels to coincide with its Los Angeles store opening this month. "He was an obvious choice," says Alyce Alston, CEO of De Beers LV US. "We wanted someone who really celebrates and embraces Hollywood, and no one does that better than Neil. He understands and loves diamonds."This ideal pairing has yielded a plethora of red-carpet-worthy creations. Ice-crazy stars can choose from the golf-ball-size mosaic ring and bracelet (loaded with colored diamonds, from crystal clear to canary yellow to black), teardrop earrings that tally up to seven carats, and necklaces dripping with dainty tiers of twinkling stones. "It's very me-quirky but glamorous," says Lane of the collection. "The pieces are significant but not dowager-duchess jewelry. They are elegant and have movement, and they sparlde from all angles.""I especially love the long chain of diamonds with briolettes. It looks as fabulous with jeans and a T-shirt as it does with an evening dress," coos actress Sarah Wynter, a friend and fan of Lane's, who for her recent nuptials wore a vintage diamond tiara from his personal collection. "And the diamond mosaic cocktail ring-it's a maze of different-colored diamonds. I could just stare at it for hours."Lane, who is also a painter, drew inspiration from the work of discount tiffany rings Klimt while paying homage to jewelry tiffany rings sale of the past in this collection. "Vintage is very much the mantra now, but for me it's second nature," he says. "Some of my pieces are very interpretive of the past; however, I'm doing it big and outrageous." And it's the resources of the 117-year-old mining tiffany rings sale that allow Lane to realize his wildest design fantasies. "These are not pieces I have in my regular inventory," he explains. "I am taking it to Frank Gehry jewelry maximum-things I've been dreaming of making."


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Feb 6, 2010
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