November 2006 – A date for fans of the trendiest most glamorous Italian jewellery and gold jewellery from 14 to 21 January 2007 at Vicenzaoro Winter, the first international gold jewellery event on the Vicenza Fair calendar.
All the currently most fashionable trends “made in Italy” will be there in big style.
• Important stones – The kaleidoscope of gems will feature large stones like big shiny sweets for the fingers and necks of those ladies who during winter 2006-07 preferred a minimalist, almost austere look. Brooches, earrings and rings, therefore, will enhance the sheer size of citrine quartzes, amethysts, chrysoprases and tourmalines, with vaguely vintage styles and cuts, in a romantic echo of the flashy jewels from the sixties that were so showy they looked almost fake.
• Flowery style – Shapes and colours bring fresh expression to the creativity and imagination of Italian jewellery. Leading to floral lines, where roses, daisies and imaginary flowers star on brooches, pendants and rings, often en tremblant – with trembling petals that vibrate as if blown by the wind. This trend, which made its first timid appearance in the autumn, comes to the fore next year with precious stones or enamels, often embellished by brilliant-cut diamond pavé.
• Burnished silver – Large-link chains, long and imposing, are the leading players in a new slant to silver jewellery. Necklaces are long enough to go around more than once, often in different earthy colours: from bronze to dark grey, right through to ancient gold effects. The classic curb becomes showy and eye-catching to give multi-pattern chains. Intermediate motifs with coloured resins standing out like precious stones on the dark silver.
• Long chains – Silver and more for next winter’s fashion chainware: the important thing is the length, enabling them to wrap around a few times or be worn instead of a bracelet. The new entry is classic simple chains hung with sophisticated structured charms: in hammered sheet metals, enamelled, woven and strands of gold, either applied or hammered. The newest trend will be selling necklace and amulets separately, letting the wearer create a totally personal jewel.
• Do-it-yourself-jewellery – A trend strengthened by the wide choice of laces, strings and chokers in leather, organza, silk, rubber and silicon, to be worn around the neck or wrist, dangling with favourite charms, even vintage ones that reflect forgotten styles and sizes: the seventies and eighties thus make a comeback, with imagination and creativity helped out by colours and materials, often devised to match colour and style of clothes.
• Charm rings – The pendant craze is not limited to bracelets and chains, but spreads to rings too, which come filled with tiny fun charms that tinkle in time to movements of the hand. Hearts, stars and playing card suits – these are the subjects preferred by Italian goldsmiths, who take jewellery back to the happy age of childhood, reworked and restyled for kidults (adults who play at being children) all over the world.