Ornamental Elements

I found this bracelet purely by accident last week…timely don’t you think? “James de Givenchy intended to give his daughter, Stella, a 1940s candy-striped bracelet that he bought online. When the piece arrived, de Givenchy, a jeweler, was so taken with the quality of the plastic that he took it into in his workshop for further study, leaving it next to a pile of faceted lapis. The commingling was purely serendipitous. “I thought it would be so much fun,” de Givenchy said of the costume bauble-turned-fine jewelry. A very American transformation, don’t you think? $10,000.”