Vintage Jewelry Trends: Fall 2013

1970s golden Accessocraft, Richelieu, Cadoro, Donald Stannard Accessories. Sarara Vintage Image.

Fashion can make you dizzy while looking forward, you also look back.  This season the trends on the runways in terms of jewelry, remind me of the aesthetic of the 80s with a little 70s peppered in.  I think we can all agree Lanvin's chains, chains, chains, and word jewelry is very 80s.  One look at Linda Evangelista's 80s Chanel ad should put your questions aside. Also GOLD. This season takes from the 80s gusto and over accessorize.  More! More! More!

Linda Evangelista, for Chanel. Circa 1980s.

Yes, that means you can feel good about not taking off one item before you leave the house!  Lanvin sort of made the look feel fresh by not going logo crazy and instead by embracing Love, Help, Happy....

Fall 2013, Lanvin runway. Lanvin.com

Personally, I am more of a fan of the 60s mod inspired styles used by Lanvin and Chloe this summer, but I can get behind a little Love necklace.   So, if you don't want to by all the newest trends in jewelry you can start by buying some larger scale vintage chains and logo jewelry. If you wish you can buy one Lanvin piece and stack it with vintage. You can go with vintage Chanel necklaces. Monet made quite a few chain necklace styles you could pile on affordably.  Anyway, start by looking up 80s, vintage necklace, or 80s chains at online vintage stores. Here are some ideas for a vintage look:

Spunk Vintage belt, image by Spunk. rights reserved.

P.S. Couture, 80s glass necklace. rights reserved.

Secondly as I mentioned, size is king this season and nobody did it quite like the 70s. I saw this use of oversized in Oscar de la Renta's large earrings and chunky bracelets as well as Anna Sui's larger maltese style crosses and use of lots of accessories on the runway. The Trifari "waterfall" necklace kind of does it all for you in one piece-makes it easy so to speak.

70s Famous waterfall Trifari necklace, worn in The Devil Wears Prada. Sarara Vintage. rights reserved.

So to apply this knowledge to the vintage invest in some larger vintage earrings- you should have no problem searching 80s clip ons and 70s examples- One thing is for sure this fall and winter accessories are back and you shouldn't feel shy about making a statement in them.  

Napier 1970s Dragon necklace. Sarara Vintage image.

For the 70s designer styles with the more dramatic sizes try- Napier, Lanvin, Accessocraft, Donald Stannard, Alexis Kirk....If you like the older models try the lager Victorian inspired pieces of the 30s and 60s.  Think Vivienne Westwood's fall victorian inspired pieces. You can get that look with the real thing but the 60s versions are larger scale.