Flower jewelry has shown up on the runways during several fashion shows for the Spring and Summer 2010 collections.
These two lovely pieces are from the latest shows for Paris Fashion Week – they’re quite different, but both share some similarly shaped flowers:

Metallic gold rose choker from Veronique Leroy.

A seriously chunky rose & chain necklace from Chapurin.
If you’d like try your hand at make your own flower jewelry, I’ve got a few links to get you started.
The first one is one of my own tutorials – I think this may be the world’s easiest way to make roses out of ribbon.  …read more

The Spring and Summer 2010 runway shows have gone to Paris for their fashion week – the last of the “big four” fashion weeks.
I always find it incredibly inspiring to see what the best and brightest minds in fashion are doing to fabric.  How many ways can you be creative with a bolt of fabric?
Let’s see…
You can distress it, embroider, embellish, applique, fold, tuck, stitch and fray – just to start!
Check out some of the amazing ways the designers have altered fabric for their runway shows:

Lanvin covered every inch of their clothing with hand-stitched beads, sequins and embellishments.  I can’t …read more