James Sherwood shares an extract from his newly-published publication:’antiques for Gentlemen’ that offers men the opportunity to learn more about the jewelry alternatives on offer from conventional tie-pins to a more different kinds of self-expression through stones.
‘When I approached Thames & Hudson together with the proposal which gentlemen’s jewellery function as the topic of my fifth publication for its publishing house, their sole objection was that the spelling of’Jewelry’ be Americanised in accord with home tradition. I believed it was a little concession to research a significant subject that was under the radar regardless of the boom in men’s jewelry style globally. Not only was I seeing the wonderful stone homes like Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Boucheron substantially increase their jewelry designs for guys, I was also loving young male road fashion expressing itself with numerous bits worn with ease and elegance.
Men’s want to wear jewelry has never been strong as the 1970s. It’s an uncommon CEO or even hedge-fund tycoon who does not put on a wrist-full of friendship bracelets which demonstrate a lifetime outside fund. The Alphas of those species happen to be trading up to bracelets, signet rings and bracelets in yellow gold. Important parts of antique fine jewelry today show up on the red carpets, worn with taste-making youthful musicians and actors like Jared Leto, Pharrell Williams, Aldis Hodge and Alexander Skarsgård, that haven’t only revived classic apparel studs and cufflinks, but also reinvented brooches, stick hooks and chains as bracelets and lapel festoons.
Jewelry for Gentlemen celebrates tastes and times beyond that modern men have accommodated and restyled to the century. These people are providing a need in addition to inspiring a youthful generation hungry for fresh approaches to use men’s jewelry.
Though we should applaud them for keeping the fire of nice jewelry living, hip swag and rock-star bling have been in the process of being refined as actors, musicians and sports celebrities graduate in the nursery slope of jewellery for gentlemen. In the turn of this nineteenth century guys wearing rings were considered humorous or common. More importantly, these early adopters have fully normalised the sporting diamonds — be they actual or artificial — for those millennials and snowflakes that are forcing the fantastic men’s jewelry resurrection.
I composed and styled jewelry for Gentlemen in an interesting time emotionally and socially. Perceptions of sex fluidity one of the young generation wonder that the dividing line between masculine and feminine. I also featured several bits which are heavily jewel set echoing the way the Indian Maharajas revelled in screen. The unspoken doctrine of jewelry for Gentlemen was that a bit of jewellery is similar to a tattoo a guy can eliminate. Just like a tattoo, a gem reflects preference, personality and individuality. Contrary to a tattoo, this may be altered on a daily foundation’
