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...
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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...
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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.
Fave Shows
YSL Africa 1967: The Collection That Changed Haute Couture's Frame of Reference | Jagged Metal
Yves Saint Laurent didn't ease ideas into fashion. He staged them. By the time he presented the Autumn/Winter 1967 collection — what's now referred to as the Africa collection —...
Versace AW91: The Night Fashion Met Pop Culture | Jagged Metal
By the early 90s, fashion had the faces — Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford — but Versace was the one who turned them into a moment. The...
Thierry Mugler Haute Couture 1995: The Show That Rewrote the Rules | Jagged Metal
Remembering a fashion legend - a tribute to the one and only Thierry Mugler. The Fall/Winter 1995 Mugler couture show ran for an hour at the Cirque d'Hiver. Pat...
90s CHANEL - FALL 1991 - THE 'HIP HOP' COLLECTION
Iconic Vintage Chanel Jewellery Moments In the early 90s, Karl Lagerfeld was on a mission to transform the brand's somewhat stuffy image. His keen eye for the cultural zeitgeist and deep respect for Gabrielle’s precious...
Music Inspo
70s Music: Funk, Soul and Disco and What They Actually Built | Jagged Metal
The 70s is the decade that gets credited with everything and understood least. Disco gets remembered as camp and then killed. Funk gets flattened into a mood. The actual story...
90s Music: The Decade That Split Everything Apart | Jagged Metal
The 90s didn't produce something for everyone. It split everything apart. Scenes stopped blending and started forming their own worlds — and most of them didn't cross over. That's...
80s Music: What the Decade Actually Built | Jagged Metal
The 80s get remembered as one thing — synthesisers, shoulder pads, big hair — when they were actually several things happening simultaneously, most of them in disagreement with each other.
1970s New York: Studio 54, The Loft and Paradise Garage | Jagged Metal
1970s New York: The Disco Era Disco is usually understood as a genre. It was really a system — about who controls the room, who gets through the door, and...
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