Costume jewelry

Under Fashion Jewelry Jewelry is understood that receives the current fashion trends and it is inexpensive to manufacture. The term is also associated with the idea of ​​"democratization" of jewelry as a status symbol.

Definition of fashion jewelry

The word " fashion jewelry " was created in the 1920s when Coco Chanel " fake " jewelry designed to match their collections. The lion's share of costume jewelry was and is not made ​​by fashion designers, but designed and manufactured in large factories. From the late 19th to the mid 20th century, the most important fashion jewelry centers were far from any fashion capitals, namely in Idar -Oberstein, Gablonz, Providence / USA and later in Neugablonz. When fashion jewelry is mass-produced jewelry from simple materials with a contemporary design that was affordable for a large number of people and is. The composition of different raw materials in different shapes, colors and varied surface effects allows for a very wide variety of products.

History

In accordance with the above-mentioned Criteria (standard, simple materials, contemporary design ) extends the phenomenon of fashion jewelry way back in the history of mankind. The earliest known form were ancient Egyptian glass beads, which were dyed so that they looked like semi-precious stones. A bill of 1569 proves that Queen Elizabeth I has 520 wax beads ordered for the price of one penny, probably sewn on their clothes. The first great era of costume jewelry was triggered by a native of Strasbourg Parisian jeweler Georges Frederic Strass 1730. He developed a glass paste, which was hard enough to be sanded brilliant-cut. The first industrially manufactured in series counter-movement to real jewelry was the Berlin iron, which had its peak from 1810 to 1840. Pig iron was made into jewelry, the value lay solely in its fineness and ornamental imagination of the design language. Paris became the hub of the coming from Berlin and Gliwice iron Fashion jewelery, also inspired in Paris, London and New York. At least since the time of the Berlin iron there was a worldwide market for fashion jewelry invested of all sales structures.

In the centers of European monarchies, London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg developed in the late 19th century a number of fashion magazines on the American model. - Harper 's Bazaar appeared in 1867 in New York. 1892 appeared the first edition of Vogue in Paris - the very fast very high volumes reached and described primarily fashionable tendencies of the courts. A particularly rich field of coverage presented here, the court mourning rituals and her clothes represent rules that were commonly used due to the very close family ties for the European aristocracy, and thus already anticipated automation of speed and ephemerality of the later emerging fashion trends.

Jewelry played in the canon of courtly grief rules an essential role, also favored the courts at this time jewelry made ​​from inexpensive materials such as iron, jet, onyx or black glass, what the teaching and facilitated success in the width of the society into it. It emerged first factories for the manufacture of jewelery as a commodity.

The (not least because of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris) developing as an economic factor Haute Couture brought with it the a variety of crafts an immense boom experienced. Thus, glassmakers and Gürtler presented a in the production of jewelry. In 1865 the company began Corbella Napoleone in Milan with the production of semi-finished brass for the production of theatrical jewelry for the Italian opera houses to also supply the first fashion houses of Milan later. The jewelery manufacturers in the conventional sector responded to the changing demands in the field of fashion and made ​​up more and more in order to industrial production. It emerged during this period important centers for the production of fashion jewelry, such as the Gablonzer industry in Jablonec in the Czech Republic.

Paris

Opened in 1911, in Paris Coco Chanel her first fashion house. With her name first highlight in the design and use of fashion jewelry is connected. She was the first person who looked at fashion jewelry as an integral part of their creations and began as a design element. No longer possible deceptive imitation of jewels was with her the goal, but the aesthetic effect. Starting in 1954, Robert Goossen was head designer at Chanel.

Opened in 1928 Elsa Schiaparelli her fashion house in Paris. Her creations emerged in close contact with the then leading artistic movements, Dadaism and Surrealism, some even with the collaboration of artists such as Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Others The Fashion Jewelry by Elsa Schiaparelli was no longer imitation but is autonomous artistic standards and thus something new in the fashion world dar.