Jewelry Style of Rachel Roy
The Desiger Accents Her Garments With Jewelry
Rachel Roy likes to fill in the front of her garments with surface design. In some instances this surface design is achieved through the use of necklaces.
New to designing under her own name, socialite Rachel Roy gets inspiration for her designs from trips to museums and historical period wear.
Roy started her career in fashion by interning at Rocawear and was eventually named creative director of the woman and children line for that company. Married to hip hop businessman Damon Dash in 2005, she started her design company shortly thereafter.
Rachel Roy likes to fill in the front of her garments with surface design. In some instances this surface design is achieved through the use of necklaces.
Spring Ready to Wear 2008
Following in the trend of the moment, Rachel Roy showed garments augmented with cascading oversized crystal or paste necklaces. These necklaces were in a V formation, large enough to be referred to as bib style. Roy's profile on her variation of the bib necklace theme was more delicate, however.
The overall width of her cascading necklaces has a narrower profile, reminiscent of a waterfall in a woodland stream. While Vera Wang is showing bib necklaces that cover a wide expanse of the chest area – similar to a pectoral plate – Rachel Roy's necklace design for Spring 2008 hangs down the center of the chest.
Fall Ready to Wear 2008
New York Fall 2008 Fashion Week has just kicked off. Rachel Roy is showing garments with a mix of Native American and Colonial period design elements. Once again she is filling in the front of many of her garments with jewelry. For Fall 2008, the jewelry she is showing with these garments is very feather oriented. Feathered jewelry was also quite popular for Fall 2007.
- Large necklaces of beaded chokers with feathers, once again in a bib style. The feathers are predominately in the brown color family and are attached to the chokers, woven between the beads, hanging downward on the chest. The Native American influence is quite apparent in this necklace design.
- Diamond shaped pins worn on one shoulder. The pins are also beaded with feather accents pointing either up from the top of the pin or down from the bottom of the pin.
- Feather plume pins that are quite reminiscent of pins worn at Mardi Gras – think of the plume of a rooster. This design style was also quite popular in the 1970s worn with equestrian type outfits.
Care for Feathered Jewelry
It is not as difficult to care for feathered jewelry as one might imagine. Necklaces and pins that do not lie directly on the skin (as shown in Rachel Roy's collection) are incredibly easy to keep fresh and clean. After wear, gently shake or give the jewelry a very gentle once over with a blow dryer set on the lowest setting and cool. Store flat between clean sheets of tissue paper and your necklace or pins will look like new the next time it is worn.
