Borrowed Jewelry: The Bulgari Serpenti Necklace

My favorite look from last Sunday's Golden Globes was Naomi Watts.

She looked like a movie star.  

Everyone else was a tad Vegas for me.  I have not seen so many sequins and flash in a long time.

She also wore (in case you did not notice : ) a Bugari Serpenti diamond necklace.  It is ahhh-mazing!

Who was her dress by?  Who cares!  It was a great shade of yellow, looked wonderful on her but it was all about the necklace.  But not totally.  It was the complete package.  She looked perfect and everything worked together.

She has worn the Serpenti necklace before.

You can not quite tell it is the same necklace until she turns around...

and Bulgari and Naomi added an extra pear shaped diamond...

I hope she buys the necklace - it really suits her.  I love that she has worn it more then once.  That is style.

At the recent Bulgari store opening in Hong Kong the Taiwanese actress, Shu Qi, wore the same or a similar necklace...

but it does not have the same effect.  Naomi wore it like she owned it, not borrowed it.

Even some bunnies have borrowed the Bulgari Serpenti necklace : )

but they looked like they owned it too!

xo, Juliana

Lupita Nyong'o Best Dressed at the Oscars

There was never really any doubt that Lupita Nyong'o would be best dressed at the Oscars - even before we knew what she was going to wear.  She and her stylist Micaela Erlanger having been knocking it out of the fashion park on every single red carpet.  The dress was Prada but did it really look like Prada?  Not really.  It just looked like Lupita and she looked stunning.  The diamond head band, the earrings - nothing was typical.  And she seemed so happy to be there.  Congratulations Lupita and Micaela!

love, kisses and glamour, Juliana

Michelle Dockery Best Dressed at the SAGs!

Gretchen Mol Best Dressed at the Emmys!

From US magazine:

From the Daily Mail "Gretchen Mol rocks vintage Valentino haute couture":

and Radar online:

and Harper's Bazaar:

just a few!

British Vogue's Best Dressed! Julia Restoin Roitfeld in RARE vintage!

Our ladies always make the best dressed lists!  New Mamma Julia Restoin Roitfeld in a floral 1970s John Anthony dress from RARE vintage on British Vogue's best dressed list!

from Vogue.com.UK

The Life of a Dress...

One day, on the Yale campus in Connecticut, I went to see a collection and to hear a little bit about the collection and the adventures of the woman who had purchased the dresses, blouses and gloves I was looking at.  It was not so easy to let go of the dresses that had traveled with her to Paris, London, India and had kept her company as a young working woman in New York.  But she knew it was time. 

We buy clothes that we are excited to buy - you know that feeling of obsession - the happiness in bringing something much desired home, that quiet moment when you try on your new purchase in your bedroom and then it goes in and out of your closet as you go about your life.  You may kiss, you may fall in love, you may have an important moment at work, you may go for a delightful lunch or read a favorite book while wearing your favorite dress.  And those memories imbue the dress with something special.

And then it is time, time to let the dress go.  

I go to see the dress, fall in love too and it comes to RARE vintage, waiting for its new home.

Then someone comes in and she too falls in love and the dress goes on to its new home and to its new life.

This is the life of a dress.  And here is the new life the dress goes on to.  Julia Restoin Roifeld in a 1970s John Anthony dress from RARE vintage.

(and by the way, Julia in her John Anthony was Vogue UK's best dressed for the week of 7/27/12!!)