Italian Jewelry

Posted in: Italian style by weddingcometrue | March 2nd 2010 | no comments

Italian jewelry, as seductive as fashion - You are scouring stores in Italy and you want to buy a new and fresh item for your jewelry collection. You will be probably vexed to discover that most of Italian jewelry is limited to dresses, coats or hats, shoes, bags shapes. Italians are so proud of their genius in fashion industry, that they transferred this into their jewels. Some find it sweet, some think it`s national selfishness, it`s up to date, if you would like it or not.

Among this trend in Italian jewelry, you will be delightful to buy all kind of crystal Teddy bears, gorgeous gemstones necklaces, Swarovski pendants with keys, anchors or lucky horns. Italian jewelry is very inventive, producers from this country have the passion of using symbols forgotten by other European countries. If we mention that the famous Umberto Ecco is a pure Italian, you can understand their inclination to use in a postmodern way all that seems out-of-date.

You will feel proud to wear a yellow gold snake guarding one heart pendant of 320 $ or a square sterling silver perfume holder pendant of 300 $. Italian jewelry is very expensive indeed, but once you wear it, you feel like a model on a presentation in Fashion Week. Most of Italian jewels are haute-couture items, so you will probably break your piggy to have one of them as souvenir.

Italians are very nationalist, but when it comes about fashion phenomenon, they embrace also global symbol such as Marylin Monroe, U.K. royal crown, Russian Masha dolls or French bread. Italian jewelry with cosmopolitan symbols is usually very colorful sterling silver or yellow gold adorned. You can show yourself off in your home country with a purple silver Marylin Monroe pendant of 90 $ or a Gold Tea Box Charm pendant of 650 $, everybody will ask themselves where did you get that fined and wonderful jewel.

Boys, for your girlfriends or wives, Italians suggest you a romantic gift or wedding jewelry: the line “Cameo” formed by haute-couture and veritable gemstones jewels (such as pearls, agate or sardonyx).  

Antiquity and Renaissance began in Italy, as a fact, most jewels will have as ornaments themes from this historical periods: Three Graces, Woman Cornelian, Loving Mother, Winged Victoria or Unicorn. They are very expensive ( between 500 – 1, 200 $) and you will probably work extra a few years to recover your investment, but for the woman you love, it really deserve to make one sacrifice.

When it comes about earrings, Italians producers don`t make economies at all. Every Italian pair of earrings is mostly made of diamonds or veritable pearls. Heart, stars, tear drops or chandelier are the common shapes of those items. They start from 800 $ for simple pairs of earrings and end to 1, 500 $ for colorful gemstones earrings. Here you have probably  the best souvenir of Italy, which will make you feel seductive as Venus herself.