Do not search for
heart-shaped rings on the internet. It leads you to a series of failed
celebrity romances and presumably to a trail of tears: Lady Gaga and Taylor
Kinney, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill.
اضافة اعلان
As a design element, the
heart is more like dots or stripes than it is a visual shorthand for romantic
love. If you want romance, try lace or oysters or dead-stock midcentury
Valentine’s Day cards or inside jokes engraved on the back of a Swiss-made
watch.
Hearts can feel bold and
fresh: Think the boxy black Supreme shirt with red heart prints that Timothée
Chalamet wore on a late-night talk show several years ago.
Another way to wear your
heart on your sleeve would be a Nirvana “Heart-Shaped Box” allover print tee,
recently going for four digits on Etsy.
To add just a little heart
to your life, try a Deborah Pagani heart-shaped hair pin for Gucci Westman or a
Blumarine belt with a heart-shaped buckle. Loewe has sunglasses with
heart-shaped lenses, and like everything Jonathan Anderson designs, they’re
surreal enough that you can feel safe that no one will mistake you for paying homage
to Kubrick’s “Lolita”.
You might try to track down
some of Chanel’s chunkier costume jewelry with hearts. On the RealReal, you can
find things like a red Chanel blouse with a black bow and a quilted heart from
the Karl Lagerfeld years.
Even if you do not
celebrate Valentine’s Day, here are some hearts for the romantics and
pragmatists alike.
Tiffany & Co.Hearts can lean a little
bit cutesy, even skewing twee. If you would rather die alone than give someone
a candy heart, or are the kind of person who hates anything sweet (literal or
figurative), try this jade pendant with an 18-karat gold mesh chain from the
Elsa Peretti Open Heart collection for Tiffany.
It is sexy and just a tad
louche. The fresh green of the jade contrasts so well with the slinky 28-inch
chain. Wear it with a beat-up vintage denim shirt buttoned so low even
Bernard-Henri Lévy would blush. ($4,900)
AlaïaRemember when Rihanna wore
that Yves Saint Laurent heart-shaped fur in 2016? Or maybe you bought the Erin
Fetherston for Target heart-shaped bag in 2007? We were just doing some
shopping reconnaissance and came across Alaïa’s Le Cœur bag.
It is small enough not to
look gimmicky, but large enough to actually carry necessities. The shade of red
is the right balance of cool and warm. Or you might consider a less obvious
gold or blue one that comes on a gold chain. (from $1,170)
Yves Saint LaurentNo one understood the use
of hearts as a design tool like Yves Saint Laurent, who drew them a little
asymmetrical and off kilter. Re-See, the Paris-based designer resale site, has
the best selection around, particularly the jewelry Robert Goossens designed
for YSL.
While you’re browsing,
there is a gold heart brooch with “Yves Saint Laurent” printed on it in script
— brooches are about to get big again — that would look great on a man. But the
coolest present would be a poster from 1989, said to be “from the private
collection of one of Saint Laurent’s most loyal collaborators.” Bonus: It’s
framed. (2,100
euros, or about $2,300)
Stephen DweckStellene Volandes, the
editor-in-chief of Town & Country, who knows a lot about jewelry, said she
was “a heart-jewelry skeptic for years” but is now drawn to them, pointing to
lines like Foundrae and Briony Raymond. In that same vein, jeweler Stephen
Dweck, who used to design for Geoffrey Beene, makes the most decadent pair of
earrings. You know when people ask you what your love language is? Here’s mine:
“Pink Tourmaline, Conch Shell and Diamond Earrings in 18K Gold.” ($28,865)
Paco RabanneA hood made of linked metal
hearts looks like something you’d see in the armor section of the Met, but also
like something model Pat Cleveland would have worn to a club in the
1970s. (650 euros,
or about $700)
Mondo MondoHearts were big in the late
1980s, with bold, unapologetically big jewelry from Christian Lacroix or Chanel
or Yves Saint Laurent. Natasha Ghosn, the designer of the Los Angeles
jewelry-fragrance-candle line Mondo Mondo, may be the real heir to that
aesthetic.
So it is not surprising
that she has a lot of heart motifs. One necklace looks like a piece of jewelry
a scorned woman in a Jackie Collins novel would have ripped off her neck and
thrown out a window after being betrayed by her man.
It comes in silver and gold
plate, but the silver feels a little less obvious and little more tender. ($250)
Read more Fashion
Jordan News
.jpg)
.jpg)
