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| Del Mar designer creates 'bold' jewelry brand - Coast News Posted: 15 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT DEL MAR — Del Mar resident Nadia Kuznetsova was inspired to start her own jewelry brand after a decade in the modeling business. The brand NadinebyNadia launched last January and has quickly gained attention — it was featured at a New York Fashion Week runway show, for Oxford Fashion Studio, in February. Kuznetsova is originally from Russia and moved to the states with her mom, dad and older sister when she was 7. They moved to New York and then eventually to New Jersey. When she was 12 her mom took her to a modeling audition she had seen in the Classified Ads. She was soon signed by Wilhelmina and spent the next ten years modeling. "That exposed me to the whole fashion industry," she said. "I didn't really want to continue (modeling) but I loved the fashion industry part. That's where all of this stems from. I got into making clothes and it just kind of evolved little by little into jewelry." She said she started making things for herself and then people started buying it and it turned into NadineByNadia. The brand name comes from her real first name, Nadezhda. "My friends from high school call me Nadine and everybody I met after calls me Nadia," she explains. Kuznetsova, 35, describes her jewelry as distinctive and bold and says she uses genuine leather and a lot of chains, spikes, and studs in her designs. "I make everything by hand myself from my home studio," she said. "I make it once and that's it, there's only one piece like that." She says she tries to make every piece versatile so that people can wear it many different ways. "So you can make it into a bracelet, or you can wear it as a belt, or you can wrap it around your neck, or use it as a hairpiece, like get creative with it," she said. She gets inspiration from many sources: her travels, historic trends and unconventional material. Her collection of jewelry includes spike earrings, leather geometric earrings, a Cleopatra necklace, a spiderweb spiked necklace, Cleopatra cuff bracelets, a studded cuff bracelet, and a whip and chain necklace. Prices range from $25 to $350. She says she's influenced by the hippie fashions of the 70s, and the punk rock styles of the 80s and 90s, and counts French designer and businesswoman Coco Chanel as a huge icon. "I love her because she broke a lot of boundaries and she really didn't care what people thought," she said. "She invented the little black dress, she was the first woman to wear slacks when wearing pants for women was unheard of." Kuznetsova says the funny thing is she doesn't even wear jewelry. "I'm really not a jewelry person," she said. "When I get dressed up and I'm going out I do put on my jewelry. But like on a day-to-day basis, I just wear my engagement ring." She added, "But I love making it, I love the concept of jewelry." Kuznetsova's jewelry has been featured in Elle Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and Fashion Week Online, among others, in addition to being at New York Fashion Week. "It was at Pier 59," she said of her NYFW show. "It was great, it was exciting, it got me a lot of exposure." She said her up and coming brand is perhaps a bit unconventional, it's not a day-to-day kind of jewelry, rather something you put on when you're putting an outfit together. "I don't want it to be stigmatized and have people see leather, spikes, and automatically go, 'Oh, that's not for me, I can't wear it'," she said. "I want people to see my jewelry and see that there is no age limit for how you can wear studs and spikes and leather, and mix it all together. It can be elegant and classy, it doesn't have to be stigmatized into punk or rock and roll. It just depends on how you wear it and what you wear it with." Kuznetsova said her main focus is to build the NadineByNadia brand to be known for a style of its own. She is currently working with Trendhaus, a showroom in downtown Los Angeles geared toward industry professionals and stylists. "Just anything I can to move forward," she said. "It's my full-time job and my passion." For more information and to view her collection, visit nadinebynadia.com  Tawny McCray is a native San Diegan and graduate of San Diego State University. She has known she wanted to be a journalist since writing for her Jr. High School newspaper in 1991. She has worked at The Star News in Chula Vista, The San Diego Union Tribune and ABC 10News San Diego. She has recently freelanced for Scripps Ranch News and The Poway Eagle and is a longtime freelancer with creators.com. She is working on authoring books with her twin sister, Nyla. She and her husband have two kids and live in South Park. |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT Say goodbye to dainty, barely there jewelry, because the next big thing in baubles is exactly that: Big. Like every other cyclical fashion trend (see: the Princess Di biker shorts revival, our current obsession with square-toe shoes, and those tiny Matrix sunglasses we already regret), we're seeing the return of a nineties trend that has nothing to do with mom jeans or an overused comparison to Caroline Bessette-Kennedy. Maximalism is back, baby. It's time to layer on chintzy costume jewelry like you raided your mom's jewelry box while she was at work. If your neck isn't sore, you're not doing enough. Chanel and Versace ruled the early nineties with a brash aesthetic that declared more really was more. We're talking about garish prints, tweed bras with matching mini skirts, and the pièces de résistance (plural), heavy strands of gold chains and charms. On the Fall 2019 runways, the very same designers are revived the trend with vintage-inspired accessories. Last year, Cardi B took a cue from Linda Evangalista and wore pounds of gilded necklaces, bracelets, and belts for a performance. There's also Missy Elliot, who tamed down the look (as much as you can with this trend) with medallion charms.   Look to Mejuri's affordable new collection of twisted silhouettes for a subtle way to test the look. If you want to go hard, reach for textured metals, heavy curb-link chains, and baroque molds with candy colored gems that look as if they belong to a spoiled king who likes to behead his wives. Shop More Vintage-Inspired Jewelry            |
| Posted: 03 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT Le Paris Russe de Chanel is a high jewellery ode to a chapter in Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's life during which Russia inspired her, although never in her lifetime did she set foot in the country. A notable mention goes to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, with whom Coco had an intense but short-lived affair with in 1921, and subsequently fell in love with all things Russian. The romance was well-documented because the dashing duke had a chequered past and was said to have been quite a ladies' man. Having fled to Paris when the Russian Revolution broke out, Pavlovich and many others from the Imperial Court including aristocrats, artists, musicians and dancers congregated in arrondissements that became known as Le Paris Russe, or the Russian Paris.
The handsome duke embodied all the splendour of Imperial Russia for Coco; that he was penniless was immaterial. Through him, she soon formed close friendships with a number of newly stateless exiles from the former empire. She went on to have a scandalous affair with composer Igor Stravinsky, and designed costumes for dancers of the Ballets Russes at the behest of its founder, Sergei Diaghilev. Coco was deeply impressed by the country and its people. "The Russians fascinate me," she remarked. "It's the Russians who have taught women that it's not dishonourable to work.'' As was the case with every high jewellery collection since 2009, Le Paris Russe de Chanel was designed by Patrice Leguéreau, director of the house's jewellery studio, Chanel Joaillerie. The collection is inspired by a "fantasy" vision of Imperial Russia that Coco could have imagined based on what her Russian lover and friends told her. Le Paris Russe de Chanel loosely covers two decades of Coco's life, from the 1920s through the '30s, which were a particularly creative time for the designer. During this period, she liberated women from their corsets, launched her famous little black dress and introduced her now-legendary Chanel No. 5 perfume with the help of another Russian émigré, Ernest Beaux, perfumer to the tsar's Court, who helped her with the formula. Chanel fashion creations also took on a Russian aesthetic. Long tunics, fur-lined cloaks and large belted blouses soon appeared in her collections, which also incorporated Russian embroidery. The latter came by way of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the sister of Pavlovich, whom Coco had convinced to open an embroidery workshop named Kitmir exclusively for her fashion house.
tiara in white and yellow gold with diamonds, pink spinels, Mandarin garnets and coloured tourmalines; and Blé Maria brooch in white and yellow gold with a 28.81ct yellow sapphire, diamonds, pink spinels, Mandarin garnets and coloured tourmalines. (Photo: Aaron Lee) Recognising the huge Russian influence in Coco's life, the 69-piece Le Paris Russe de Chanel collection is presented in 11 sets that reflect the grandiose life of refined Russia and its folklore prints, cultural richness of colours, motifs and intricate embroideries. Many of the pieces are transformable, illustrating the jewellery house's technical inventiveness that honours its founder's intent for her jewellery to be worn by women how they choose. To add cohesion, Leguéreau peppered the collection with signature Chanel motifs, such as sheaves of wheat (a Russian symbol of wealth) or the camellia, which appear in figurative and abstracted forms. The double-headed eagle, a historic Russian symbol signifying the empire, found on a baroque mirror in Chanel's apartment on Rue Cambon, also features prominently in the insignia-style Aigle Cambon pieces. The Sarafane suite, which is inspired by Russian needlework, includes a noteworthy headpiece that resembles a kokoshnik, a traditional Russian headdress that became popular as a style of tiara in Western Europe in the late 19th century. Camellia vines are set, lace-like, in white gold and adorned with diamonds and cultured pearls, and the headpiece can also be worn as a necklace.
The same gems feature in exquisite ornamental pieces in the Broderie Byzantine suite, which again showcases the camellia motif, while a modern-day reimagining of the kokoshnik is seen in multicolour, as diamonds, spinels, garnets and tourmalines take centre stage in the Blé Maria tiara, again playing on the wheat motif. The Médaille Solaire set alludes to the sun and military orders with diamonds and pearls blazing, while the Motif Russe parure harks back to the glorious days of Russian nobility, with strings of sparkling diamonds in tassel-like formation from an ornamental pendant in a necklace, or in a row to form a bracelet. In the Folklore set, the camellia is traced in diamonds against a deep red enamel base that is beset with gleaming pearls and precious stones of various hues. The remarkable Roubachka pieces, on the other hand, are a bejewelled tapestry that reflects the lines and embroidery of traditional rubakha tunics after which the set is named. Never one to shy away from breaking the rules in her personal life and career, Coco Chanel was considered a revolutionary fashion designer, and a pioneer in the world of jewellery design as she dared to venture into the conservative milieu of Place Vendôme's jewellers. Today, Le Paris Russe de Chanel recalls not only her legendary spirit but also irreverent aspects of her personality and lifestyle that continue to captivate today.
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