The most beautiful vintage jewelry in photos

Jewelry has come a long way: from imitation, counterfeiting, ornaments for commoners to absolute recognition and the ability not only to appear on the catwalks during fashion shows, but also to the acquisition of a price, often equal to the price of full-fledged jewelry made of precious stones and metals.

The very word bijouterie comes from the French word "bijou", which translates as decoration, treasure. Bijouterie is jewelry made from non-precious metals, fabrics, wood, glass, plastics, and even fabrics and threads. Such decorations can be completely, if you have a certain imagination and skill, make yourself.

Initially, jewelry is imitation. They learned to imitate diamonds back in the 18th century. The name of the jeweler who created the imitation diamond was Georges Frederic Strass, and artificial diamonds were called rhinestones.

Glory to jewelry comes at the beginning of the twentieth century - the founder of the Trading House "Swarovski" Daniel Swarovski he was one of the first to create costume jewelry, which was far from imitating precious jewelry. The great Mademoiselle also did not pass by the costume jewelry. Coco Chanel chose a string of imitation pearls to decorate her legendary “little black dress”. "A woman who wants to look fashionable and elegant just needs good jewelry!" - said Pierre Cardin.

Modern and vintage jewelry that exists today can be divided into several groups:

Cheap and low-quality jewelryoften sold in markets and crossings.

Traditional jewelry - classic in combination of colors and shape: stud earrings, thin bracelets, chains with small pendants. Such jewelry will be appropriate for office wear, evening dress. But this does not mean that it is expensive, not at all, its main feature is that it is made of high quality and of high quality materials.

Fashionable jewelry. Jewelry created by leading designers. So, John Galliano used jewelry in his collections for the House of Dior more than once. He created, for example, a necklace consisting of hand-painted porcelain medallions, as well as a “collar” of metal lace. Fashionable jewelry is expensive.

Vanguard Jewelry - jewelry designed to amaze. It is characterized by strange patterns, unusual shapes and materials.

Both avant-garde and traditional bijouterie can refer to handmade bijouterie made by one or another artisan, designer, and possibly just amateurs, sold to all sorts designer markets and sales.

Beautiful vintage jewelry in a photo

When choosing jewelry, you should also remember that it should not imitate jewelry made of precious stones, imitate them. And to combine jewelry with jewelry is also not worth it. Jewelry should look like jewelry and then it will look just perfect.