Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Jewellery: What to Look For

By Jagged Metal Vintage Yves Saint Laurent jewellery moves across multiple aesthetics depending on the decade. It resists a single definition, which is part of what makes it interesting to...

How to Spot Fake Vintage Chanel Jewellery

Fake Chanel is usually slightly wrong everywhere. Here’s how to see the difference.

How to Date Vintage Dior Jewellery

Dating Dior jewellery isn’t straightforward. Marks, Grosse production, materials and construction all shift across decades. Here’s how to read it properly.

Vintage Monet Jewellery: A Collector's Guide

By Jagged Metal Monet sits slightly outside the fashion conversation, which is exactly why it’s worth attention. The quality is consistently high, the designs are wearable, and the market has...

Y2K Fashion: The Style Statement That Defined a Generation

  Most of what gets called Y2K now isn't the interesting part of it. A guide to the Dior, Galliano and McQueen pieces that actually hold up.

Vintage Gianni Versace Jewellery: A Collector's Guide | Jagged Metal

Gianni Versace didn't believe in good taste. He believed in craft, classical reference, and the power of a motif applied with enough conviction to become a language. A guide to...

Collecting Vintage Givenchy Jewellery

For more than 60 years, Givenchy has been one of the world’s most iconic and desirable fashion houses. And Givenchy jewellery has been a wardrobe staple of fashionable, independent women...

Bianca Jagger - a timeless style icon

Bianca Jagger, with a fashion sense as iconic as her name, stands out as a symbol of the 70s' glitz and glamour. Known for her marriage to Mick Jagger and...

The Story of PAOLO GUCCI

The Designer They Tried to Erase Paolo Gucci helped build one of the most recognisable brands in the world. History gave him a footnote. When Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported...

Kenneth Jay Lane Jewellery: A Collector's Guide to KJL Marks and Dating | Jagged Metal

Kenneth Jay Lane launched his first jewellery line in 1963 and spent the next five decades making costume jewellery that didn't apologise for being costume jewellery. A guide to the...

Veruschka: The Model Who Rejected Fashion | Jagged Metal

  Veruschka von Lehndorff — German countess, 1960s icon, body painting pioneer. The anti-model who defined an era and walked away from it on her own terms.