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18 hours ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
Here comes the bride, all dressed in white. Or at least, almost always dressed in white – so deeply steeped in tradition is the hue for this one important day. And yet, until Britain’s Queen Victoria created a new trend with a white satin gown for her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840, brides mostly wore a variety of colours on their special day. A dress from Danielle Frankel’s X bridal collection.
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3 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
Taylor Swift is no stranger to meaningful jewellery – from the beaded friendship bracelets that become an ultimate symbol of girlhood and fandom at her concerts, to the famous Lorraine Schwartz watch choker, with the time set to midnight, that many fans interpreted as a nod to her Midnights album. Lately Swift has got into coin jewellery, having been seen wearing pieces from the likes of Steven Battelle, Ben-Amun and For Future Reference.
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3 weeks ago | 
theaustralian.com.au | Annie Brown
You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Give us your feedback. You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Lee Mathews likes to do her own thing. As a brand that has withstood the challenges of the fashion industry for 25 years, this is advice worth noting.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
It started with a single Sophie Bille Brahe earring. The Danish designer is known for her supercool clusters and orbs of freshwater pearls in striking shapes and blooms of diamonds. Mostly, they’re sold as singular pieces. The acquisition of one such piece completely changed not only how I thought about pearls, but also made me realise that you really don’t need to wear a pair of earrings. In fact, it’s rather more fun when you don’t.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
When Shawn Mendes matched his Patek Philippe to his khaki trunks, he showed that the rubber watch strap, once considered merely utilitarian, can be luxe tooYou could think of rubber-strap watches as the kind of accessory you can wear to the school run and then later at cocktail hour. After all, these days, most of us are doing it all.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
The ‘boom boom’ fashion trend saw glittering new Rolex and Patek Philippe releases, while Cartier returned to its famous panther, and Chanel evoked Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s love of braidBlame the mob wife trend, or perhaps the shift from minimalism towards ‘‘boom boom‘’ fashion – coined earlier this year by trend forecaster Sean Monahan to refer to the bold and bougie fashion we’re seeing make a comeback. Either way, gold watches are back.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
From surrealist artist Man Ray’s Lampshade earrings, worn in the 60s by French actress Catherine Deneuve, to his collaborations in the 70s with Italian jeweller Gem Montebello – and from sculptor Alexander Calder’s masterfully absurd jewellery creations, worn by the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Georgia O’Keeffe and Peggy Guggenheim, to feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s ruminations on the body with her colourful brooches – artists have long turned to jewellery as a medium for creativity...
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
Cartier was one of the first luxury houses to introduce its signature style to the world of watchmaking, and recently Tiffany & Co. signalled an intention to shift more of its focus to horologyWalking through the Palexpo in Geneva during the annual Watches and Wonders event is a veritable sensory overload. There are just so many booths, and so many watches. A visit to the Van Cleef & Arpels booth is something of a reprieve. As though you’ve wandered into a magical forest.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
A glimpse at reasonably close range of Paul Mescal – wearer of impossibly small shorts and a man of Old Hollywood-era appeal – in a tiny gold Cartier Baignoire watch at the Sydney premiere of Gladiator II was all the proof required that the small watch trend isn’t going anywhere. Mescal, a Cartier ambassador, has certainly been doing the Lord’s work himself to immortalise the idea that small watches are indeed for everybody. Cartier Mini Tank and Panthère watches.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Annie Brown
A comprehensive retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama – still working aged 96 – showing at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne until April 21, indisputably confirms Kusama’s conviction that polka dots are fabulous. Visitors inside the current Yayoi Kusama retrospective at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria. Photo: HandoutOr to be on point, as it were, polka dots are fabulous once more.
