Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:29     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
Anonymous wrote:Mikimoto

+1, also maybe Temple?
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Post 01/01/2024 19:26     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:Steep prices but Sophie Bille Brahe does pearl and diamonds. The tennis bracelet is IYKYK due to the unusual design. Fashion girls wear her jewelry


Just googled and looooooove



Retrouvai sucks my god, Cartier is now ticky-tack to me even the $$$$$$ pieces but Sophie Billie Brahe: swoon, especially the pearl pieces. They would look great with any outfit at all. At a lower price point but I still have some affection for some Ten Thousand Things designs, but merely own two of their very tiny and inexpensive earrings, which are very 90s retread now. I also think Lisa Nading and James Colarusso are interesting.


The only brand worth mentioning in the above word salad is Cartier. No one has ever heard of the rest - talk about "ticky-tack."
DP
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:24     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:Steep prices but Sophie Bille Brahe does pearl and diamonds. The tennis bracelet is IYKYK due to the unusual design. Fashion girls wear her jewelry


Just googled and looooooove



Retrouvai sucks my god, Cartier is now ticky-tack to me even the $$$$$$ pieces but Sophie Billie Brahe: swoon, especially the pearl pieces. They would look great with any outfit at all. At a lower price point but I still have some affection for some Ten Thousand Things designs, but merely own two of their very tiny and inexpensive earrings, which are very 90s retread now. I also think Lisa Nading and James Colarusso are interesting.


Dammit I meant Jill Platner not Lisa Nadine, total brain fart.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 19:21     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Steep prices but Sophie Bille Brahe does pearl and diamonds. The tennis bracelet is IYKYK due to the unusual design. Fashion girls wear her jewelry


Just googled and looooooove



Retrouvai sucks my god, Cartier is now ticky-tack to me even the $$$$$$ pieces but Sophie Billie Brahe: swoon, especially the pearl pieces. They would look great with any outfit at all. At a lower price point but I still have some affection for some Ten Thousand Things designs, but merely own two of their very tiny and inexpensive earrings, which are very 90s retread now. I also think Lisa Nading and James Colarusso are interesting.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 15:00     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
I would check out this jewelry store:

https://www.mflynnjewelry.com/

It is in Boston and owned by two sisters. They have fabulous jewelry IMO and lots of designer brands ranging from traditional to very modern. They also do beautiful custom work. I could easily buy many pieces here.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 13:53     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
Anonymous wrote:Georg Jensen fusion pieces in gold


I wear two Georg Jensen rings, one vintage from the 60s and one new. I get compliments on them all the time and have never seen any in the wild.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 13:41     Subject: Re:IYKYK Jewelry
I love all the suggestions. Didn't know about Tiffany Hardware and love the gold pearl necklace.

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Post 01/01/2024 13:02     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
Anonymous wrote:https://www.retrouvai.com/
Iykyk big time


This stuff is amazing. Love.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 12:52     Subject: Re:IYKYK Jewelry
I would say any of the jewelry the late Queen wore would be IYKYK.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 12:41     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
The brand names being suggested are the opposite of IYKYK - those are "everybody knows"
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 12:38     Subject: Re:IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:What about the Cartier Trinity line?


Everyone and their aunt and their sister and their daughter wear this.


Serious question- really? I’ve only seen one other Trinity piece on someone in real life- my kid’s pulmonologist wore one as a wedding ring. For all the fussing about the Love line, I’ve only seen two in the wild- one was a necklace and the other the bracelet.

I just have your basic outside the Beltway Fairfax County life, though.


I'm PP, and I have a basic inside-the-beltway FFX life. And I've seen more Trinity stuff than I could count. In numbers right up there with that horrifically basic Alhambra line.


PP here. Huh. I don’t see Alhambra or any VCA either where I live. I really don’t see much noticeably mainstream designer jewelry where I live at all.


Yes, well -- you are outside the beltway. And I'm inside. Not puzzling. I'm sure there is a difference in our housing costs as well.

Just specify that you live in McLean or Bethesda. You know there are plenty of other areas inside the beltway that are not those two cities and not full of wealthy people? I live inside the beltway, too, and my kids go to a Title I ES. Trust me when I tell you my crowd isn't wearing these things.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 12:35     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:I think that Tiffany’s has some nice looking things that don’t scream brand. Plenty of people will recognize but not as much as the others you listed. I have the smile necklace that I love. People don’t really know it’s Tiffany’s. Also that lock bracelet they have is really pretty on (with the diamonds). Or that classic gold Elsa perreti bone cuff is amazing.


It’s Tiffany. Not “Tiffany’s.” And when you say that? We know.


You don’t have anything better to do? #sad We know.


If you say “Tiffany’s,” we all instantly know what class you belong to, and what class you are striving toward.


I was born with a $10m trust fund and I thought it was “Tiffany’s” and I wore one of those silver necklaces in high school.


The bean necklaces? I grew up solidly middle class (midwest middle class, not DCUM middle class) and received one of those for high school graduation. I knew it was Tiffany back then, though.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 12:32     Subject: Re:IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:These are great suggestions. Thanks. And yes looking for a brand. I’ll admit that I am status conscious (I’m sure I’ll get berated) and want something recognizable but not something that is worn by everyone or easily replicated. IYKYK.


Just know I’m going to judge you for valuing brand over quality. A gold and diamond whatever is going to scream money regardless but you’d get a tiny nothing from Cartier for the same price as a beautiful larger design from a local jeweler. Wear something that has meaning to you.

I’ve been looking at monica rich kosann jewelry (which is sold at Bergdorfs btw, so it’s very IYNYK) which is beautiful and meaningful.


LOL! This brand shows up in my instagram feed all the time, so....
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 02:13     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
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Anonymous wrote:Irene Neuwirth


Love love.

How do all these people have so much $? We have $750-1m (depending on year) hhi - but two kids in private and live in nyc and I would never spend this much on a ring that was just for fun.


They don't. People who spend this kind of money on brand name jewelry are all flash and no cash.


Not really. There are the Lauren Santo Domingo types

She’s a billionaire.


she’s married to one. And she has a lot of brand name stuff, she doesn’t go head to toe in custom made stuff. But that’s all besides the point. Not everyone who buys expensive jewelry secretly eats canned tuna to keep up.


Someone hit a nerve!

Here's an in-depth article about LSD's jewelry collection. She's not wearing VCA and Cartier.

https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2015/07/lauren-santo-domingo-jewellery-box


The article is PR for Moda. But I didn’t suggest she’s wearing Cartier, someone else did. but it’s funny that article mentions Repossi, which is more or less in that same category of Cartier. Mass produced.

(Head to toe referring more to her wardrobe…)

There’s this general sentiment on this board that people wearing designer stuff are living beyond their means. I think it’s just jealousy.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 01:43     Subject: IYKYK Jewelry
Anyone have a suggestion for another bracelet like the love bracelet? My favorite things about it are that it’s indestructible 18k, tight on my wrist, doesn’t have a clasp.

I’ve had bracelets my whole life and I just play with them too much. I love how permanent my love bracelet is. I don’t like the screw look that’s printed on the top though. I have a small wrist and most bracelets are too big.