BY SANDY LEONG : Tuesday, June 07, 2011
I love Donna Karan. Her clothes are beautiful, accessible and wearable. She designs a bedding and bath line, shoes and handbags, fragrances and now Urban Zen, a complete lifestyle collection. But does she ever get bored of wearing Donna Karan clothing, sleeping in her Donna Karan bedding, living in her Donna Karan-designed apartment or showing off her Donna Karan-designed jewelry?
Unlike Donna Karan, with her massive staff, I’m a one-woman show; I design, draw, work on my inventory, monitor sales. I’m constantly on the lookout for new ideas, trends and inspiration. Sometimes it can take months for an idea to become an actual wearable piece of jewelry.
I wear a piece from my collection every day. I never take off my 18K dewdrop necklace with a champagne diamond charm on a thin chain. And I always “test drive” every piece for its wearability and practicality.
But sometimes, just sometimes, I find a piece of jewelry that I become obsessed with and just have to have. Like this black Hermes Clic-Clac H Extra Wide Bracelet with a black enameled H in gold. I don’t have anything like it in my collection, so I’m not going to feel guilty if I get it, own it and wear it.
I wonder what would happen if Donna found something in my collection that she became obsessed with. Would she buy it? I mean, what would Donna do?
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