Welcome to Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
The interest in Vintage Jewelry has never been greater and there is still a wealth of material to choose from at all price ranges. Find an extensive range of Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry necklaces, brooches, bracelets, pins, rings and chokers. Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry have also become an interesting area for the collector and there is a good area for the beginning collector as some items are still relatively inexpensive.
Napier Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
The Napier Co. Jewelry
First set up in 1875 in Massachusetts, USA, as a business marketing personal items and gifts, the firm relocated to Meriden, Connecticut, in 1891 and took the name Napier in 1922 after its then-president, James H. Napier. In the 1920S The Napier Co. made its name selling jewelry imitations of Paris fashion jewels by Lelong, Premet, Patou, Schiaparelli and others. Today one of America's largest costume jewelry makers, it has continued to respond with success to changing fashions. View Items »
Monet Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
Monet
New York costume jewelry producer, originally launched in 1929 using the brand Monocraft by brothers Michael and Jay Chernow. Monet started creating jewelry in 1937. Monet designed the comfortable 'friction earclip' for earrings for non-pierced ears and the 'barrel clutch' for earrings for pierced ears. In the 1980s Monet produced jewelry for Yves Saint Laurent The company is now called the Monet Group Inc. and markets jewelry under the brands Monet, Marvella and Trifari. View Items »
KJL Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
Born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. After studying at the University of Michigan and graduating from Rhode Island School of Design, Kenneth Jay Lane joined the art department of American Vogue in 1954. In 1956 he left to become assistant designer at Delman Shoes and from 1958 to 1963 was associate designer for Christian Dior Shoes, New York. His first jewelry designs, in 1963, in which he utilized the rhinestones he had been using for shoe decoration, were so successful that by the following year he was running his own jewelry business. Kenneth Jay Lane makes use of plastic to simulate real gems and often sets his jewelry with opulent stones in rich colours. Kenneth Jay Lane is considered to be one of the twentieth century's finest costume jewelry designers, his clients have included Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Barbara Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton. View Items »
Vintage Christian Lacroix Jewelry
Christian Lacroix
Born in Aries, France. Christian Lacroix studied art history at Montpellier University and museum studies at the Sorbonne, Paris. He opened his couture house in Paris in 1987. Christian Lacroix most famous jewelry design is the Byzantine-inspired cross encrusted with fake and semi-precious stones which he created in the late 1980s. Christian Lacroix recent jewelry collections, in which silver is combined with semi-precious stones such as amethyst, garnet, rose tourmaline and agate, are more abstract and restrained. These designs range from highly modern pieces to jewelry inspired by natural, organic shapes. View Items »
Maison Gripoix
Maison Gripoix, founded in the nineteenth century In Paris, specialized in the creation of high-quality handmade imitations of precious jewels. It is associated with the production of jewelry for many fashion houses, including Worth, Poiret, Piguet, Dior and Fath, but is best known for its collaboration with "Chanel. Susanne Gripoix (b. 1895) worked with Chanel from the mid-1920s until 1969. View Items »
Marina B Jewelry
jewelry company established in Geneva in 1979 by Marina Bulgari (b Rome, Italy; 1930-). Marina Bulgari is the daughter of the famous jeweler Constantino "'Bulgari. Marina B worked in the family business from an early age before setting up on her own. Among Marina B signature pieces are perfectly fitting chokers and reversible earrings. Her jewelry often combines precious and semi-precious stones. View Items »
Marvella Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
Marvella.
Costume Jewelry firm founded in New York in 1906 by Sol E. Weinreich. Marvella jewelry often featured simulated pearls and faceted beads. The Marvella company was bought by Trifari in 1982 and is owned today by the Monet Group lnc. View Items »
Swarovski Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
Swarovski
Austrian company founded in 1895 in Wattens, in the Tyrol, by Daniel Swarovski (b. Georgenthal, Austria; 1862-1956). In 1892 Swarovski patented a machine for cutting glass gemstones with perfect precision. The company makes high-quality rhinestones, cut crystals and other glass-related items. It began a line of rhinestone costume jewelry in 1977. View Items »
Elsa Schiaparelli Vintage Jewelry
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973)
Born in Rome, Italy. After a period in Boston and New York, Schiaparelli moved to Paris in 1922 and opened her shop, Pour Le Sport, in 1927. She showed her first fashion collection in 1929. An original and witty couturier, Schiaparelli commissioned designs for buttons and jewelry form a range of artists, including Jean Clement, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali and jean Cocteau. Her Jewelry displays influences from many of the art movements of her day, but especially from Surrealism. In the mid-1930s she began to employ the talents of Jean Schlumberger. It was a collaboration that would raise costume jewelry to new heights and increase its popularity and acceptability. Among Schlumberger's many innovative and amusing designs for Schiaparelli were the jewels he created to accompany her famous Circus collection of 1938: clowns, acrobats, and circus horses' heads made of gilt metal or Venetian glass. Schiaparelli closed her house in 1954. View Items »
Hattie Carnegie Vintage Rhinestone Jewelry
Hattie Carnegie (1886-1956)
Born Henrietta Kanengeiserin Vienna, Austria. Carnegie was primarily a clothes designer, she launched her first clothing collection in New York in 1918ยท. Famous from the 1930S to the 1950S for her restrained, conventional suits and little black dresses, she also produced quirky, theatrical, colorful costume jewelry, often in matching sets. View Items »