It's still fashion week around here!

Yes, fashion week comes to a close today, but robertachiarella.com has been coming on strong in the press. Beauty editors, movie stars, actresses have been seen around town wearing some of my jewelry. We've got Mo'Nique pictured with some nice earrings in Ebony, and Whitney Houston is ON TOUR wearing my cuff bracelets.

We were intrigued when the order came in, after all, when you get an order from Whitney Houston, wouldn't you be in shock? Turns out she wanted enough of our Cha-Cha Licious Bracelet for her tour and we were so happy we had them all in stock. These beauties are made with Crystallized Swarovski Elements (tm) and are beauties, click the link and see for yourself!

Essence magazine has a fashion spread showing our crystal mosaic earrings, they look great on the models ear, just as they will look great on yours. I love the crystal mosaics, they are one of my favorites and look so great as they dangle and sparkle.

Redbook is showing Scarlett's necklace, a really spectacular necklace that photos just can't do justice to. This is a really great necklace and we're thrilled it was featured!


Another magazine, Shape Bride features the petite sarah earring, this beautiful favorite is a real popular choice for sparkle and elegance! You know how the petite sarah got it's name, and we made it in a smaller size cause the original is a pretty large CZ. The petite sarah is a 2 karat size earring that's one of our best sellers for weddings. Our studio loves to help with wedding planning, we offer appointments in NYC most days, so if you and your wedding party are in or around the area, give us a call!

And, we're still in awe over our coverage in Vanity Fair, it's so wonderful to see the award winning stud earrings was given the right name when we made it! Lots of people, including some famous ones, are wearing this beautiful piece.

So with the end of fashion week, you'll have to wait till next year to see the gowns, suits and glamor. But, the robertachiarella.com fashion show is still going on! And, for a week longer, we have our amazing sale, just buy two, get one free from our under $25 section of the website, so go and check it out today. To spice up your winter blues, there are plenty of new items, more earrings, more bracelets and more bling! Ciao!

It's a wrap! Fashion Week says goodbye

It's fashion week (or week and a half) and New York is filled with designers, models and lots of fashionistas. Magazine editors, web and other media reporters wait on line to get into the tents, set up at Bryant Park for the spectacular Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Today we saw the Tommy Hilfiger collection presented, and some interesting fashion- body painting!

The major collections have all been shown, Justin Timberlake showed his collection yesterday and it was quite the scene. There are a few final presentations and shows tomorrow, and the people associated with making this all look so good are still here, with the hair stylists, seamstresses and accessories designers and merchants all around the area.

I love to be there, I love the excitement and fun of the crowd and the reporters and photographers huddled everywhere, studying everything that is going on.

You have to laugh when photographers swarm some smartly dressed guy or gal, snapping a million photos, then they go up to the person and ask "are you anyone famous". I was just as guilty, pointing my camera at someone here and there, then asking who was that? Other photographers stalk the limos, stand on tables, chairs and fences hoping to get a shot of some hot model or wealthy runway patron. Of course, it's not hard to find some famous people, it's New York!

The shows end each day with a bittersweet announcement, once the tents come down this year, they won't be back. The shows will move to Lincoln Center next year, and leave Bryant Park. It is a huge change for the industry, as the park is at the edge of the garment center, a district that produces some of our most famous clothing lines, and is home to Fashion Institute of Technology, the home of Project Runway and the source of lots of talented future designers. There are less and less fashion houses in the area these days, so many jobs have gone overseas and real estate prices force little merchants out of business or onto the internet.

So, next year we'll be hanging out in front of the Metropolitan Opera house, hopefully still enjoying the magic of viewing the collections that will be worn by movie stars, millionaires and fashionistas everywhere. Ciao!

get your NEWS here!

New york is a newspaper town, but the number has dwindled over the years. We used to have many, many more papers years ago, and they published multiple editions each day, all packed in giant bundles and thrown out the doors of speeding trucks in the general direction of the newsstand. Thankfully, with no blackberry and no ipod, your eyes were generally open and you could get out of the way, lest a 40 pound bundle of papers knock you over.

We read a lot of papers cause we didn't have blogs then, and you had your morning papers like the Wall St. Journal, NY Times and the Daily News, and your afternoon papers like the Post. My father sent me out for the Racing Form, a daily newspaper about horses. There was even a news stand for foreign papers near Bryant Park, you could get a paper from paris the same day. It seemed amazing at the time!

 We had the New York Sun, the Daily Mirror and others. The newsstands around Grand Central Terminal had lots of papers to sell, and they employed newspaper "boys" of all ages who stood there yelling at the top of their lungs to get you to buy their paper.

The folks who sold the Daily News would shout at you in their inimitable New York accents what sounds like: Get ya NOOOS HEAH!    DAILEEEE NOOOS!   I think the paper cost a dime back then, and they didn't have a single page in color. So fast forward to the Daily News of today, in full color, the valentine's guide. And look at what they are showing in the guide, our cuff and ring!
I was surprised and thrilled, it was unexpected to say the least. Sometimes you have to really work to get some press, and sometimes you don't! Either way, we've got 'em in stock and ready to ship, in case your valentine would like a bauble or two. Ciao!