FASHION Magazine

Remember those friendship bracelets you made as a kid at summer camp? Meet a new grown-up version from Shashi. These hand-woven silk cords (available in a variety of colours and styles decorated with crystals or gold nuggets) look cool paired with your favourite watch or piled on in multiples. A symbol of love, luck and everlasting friendship, FASHION’s cover girl Katy Perry is also a fan. From $19 at Shades of Grey Boutique (10116 124th St., Edmonton, 780-756-5199, shopshadesofgrey.com).

Spruce up your spring wardrobe with some eye-popping arm candy. ($22, mikkatmarket.com)

When it comes to hot hues—like orange, purple, pink and red—Holly Dyment (hollydyment.com) definitely knows her way around a colour wheel. After 20 years as a Toronto-based interior decorator, Dyment has recently delved into the world of fine jewellery. Her eponymous line of baubles (think peridot and turquoise rings, chalcedony pendants and amethyst chandelier earrings) is ideal for those looking to make a bold, sophisticated statement.

How did you get into jewellery design?
“I love colour and combining colours to create more tension. A year ago I decided to design jewellery in India. What could be better?”

Ivanka Trump’s fine jewellery collection has the Midas touch.

Jewellery lovers take note: There is a fresh new source for fine gems in Chinook Centre (6455 Macleod Trail SW, Calgary, chinookcentre.com). The recently opened Tiffany & Co. (tiffany.ca), will carry an assortment of all things bright and shiny in its 4,100-square-foot store. New must-haves include the Tiffany Locks collection, which features detailed pendants and charms (some of which function as actual locks) inspired by the company’s archival designs.

Judging from her bold statement pieces and savagely sexy collections, Pamela Love (at select Holt Renfrew stores) has become the go-to girl for unique accessories that push the boundaries of traditional jewellery design. Trust us, all you need is love.

Ice is nice, and eye-catching baubles are the mainstay at recently opened Diamond Boutique (Mount Royal Village, 816 16th Ave. SW, Calgary, 403-251-1167, diamondboutique.ca).

Canadian designer John Hardy (johnhardy.com) founded his eponymous jewellery brand in 1989 after moving to Bali and falling in love with traditional Indonesian art. Today, Guy Bedarida is the company’s creative director—he’s previously designed for Boucheron and Van Cleef & Arpels. We sat down at Vancouver’s Holt Renfrew (737 Dunsmuir St., 604-681-3121, holtrenfrew.com).

With so many press and wealthy clients in Paris for the haute couture shows, many of the luxury jewelers in the Place Vendome are using the occasion to launch new collections. So off I went to Van Cleef & Arpels to see their new Zips. It was the Duchess of Windsor (the sometimes scandalous, always stylish legendary Wallis Simpson) who first suggested in 1938 that the house craft a zipper necklace in precious materials, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that technology caught up with the duchess’s imagination. By then, Wallis was over it. And though her character is seen wearing a Zip in The King’s Speech, the real duchess never did.