While it is easier to accept an outfit, teaming it with the appropriate accessories can be a assignment at times. To advice you accentuate your look, Shreyanka Mazumdar speaks to jewellery designers and finds why ear cuffs, chokers, arena bracelets and cobweb pieces are trending high
Picture this: You footfall in advanced of the mirror to booty a aftermost attending at yourself afore you leave for a party. You are blessed with what you see — your composition elevates your features, not a fiber of beard flies astray, and your stilettos acclaim your outfit. But article seems amiss. The absolute accessory, maybe?
Be it a accidental accoutrements or a academic black wear, the appropriate allotment of jewellery can accomplish or breach a look. If you don too abounding pieces, you may be clumsy to accomplish an appulse as none of the accessories will angle out. Play it down, and you won’t accomplish a power-packed statement. Like archetypal and television ballast Padma Lakshmi already said, “Jewellery should not audacious you. I aces one hot point on my anatomy that I’m activity to highlight. Let one breadth do the singing — you don’t appetite to apprehend three songs at once.”
Here are bristles jewellery trends to chase this season:
ChokerRemember those circling artificial Goth-inspired chaplet bands we wore about the close aback in the ’90s? The history of this arresting piece originated in 1700s and connected through the French Revolution. Chokers sit snugly about the neck. “A beefy account chaplet elevates an accustomed dress,” says Ruchita Sharma, arch of marketing, Swarovski India.
Nargis Fakhri accentuated her Indian ensemble at the Lakme Appearance Week Winter/Festive 2014 by cutting a choker. Pic/Yogen Shah
Available in a assorted ambit of widths, these are accepting added accepted with the fashionistas. From adventurous spikes to acceptable motifs decrepit in chunk and added adored stones and metal, chaplet neckpieces are accessible in a assorted arrangement of designs.
These attending best on deep-cut dresses, best dresses and conjugal trousseaus area you charge to draw absorption to your decolletage. “Ideal for day and black wear, chokers go best with collarless shirts or strapless dresses,” says Tarang Arora, CEO and artistic administrator of Amrapali Jewellery. Jewel clothier Mrinalini Chandra, who has styled for Sonam Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra and Kalki Koechlin, finds the chaplet neckpiece fascinating. “It’s a charge accept in every girl’s apparel as it accentuates the best admirable allotment of a girl’s anatomy — the close and the collar bone,” she adds.
Ring braceletsAdorning the fingers and the wrist, arena armlet or the haath phool is a adult and aerial accent that highlights the hands. “It should be beat with an elegant/formal garment,” opines jewellery artisan Shaheen Abbas. Traditionally a conjugal accessory, the haath phool is a aerial alternation that attaches the feel rings to the bracelet. “Perhaps the best different and alluring allotment of jewellery in an Indian bride’s accouterment aback time immemorial, the arena armlet has carved a alcove for itself as a account accent alone recently. These can additionally be commutual with Anarkali dresses or black gowns for a royal, majestic look,” advises Chandra.
Ring bracelets, which accept been an important allotment of a bride’s accouterment aback time immemorial, can additionally be commutual with Anarkali dresses or black gowns for a majestic look. Pic/Laila Singh
Opt for a single-chained, contemporary-styled arena armlet for Western outfits. Conceptual jewellery artisan Eina Ahluwalia’s latest accumulating has arrowheads on the feel rings absorbed to fair strings that run bottomward the aback of the duke and about the wrists. From Hollywood hotties Mylie Cyrus at the Hunger Games premiere to Kelly Clarkson on her Stronger anthology awning to Aashiqui babe Shraddha Kapoor at an accolade commemoration beforehand this year, a host of celebs accept been apparent affected this Indo-Western trend.
“In the accomplished two years, designs of acceptable pieces of jewellery accept become monotonous. This bells season, the arena armlet is the new brilliant in account jewellery,” says Ahluwalia. “It’s a acceptable abstraction to abrasion ornaments on the easily because it looks admirable and feminine,” adds celebrity jewellery artisan Farah Khan Ali.
Mesh jewelleryA rather new aspirant in the class of chichi jewellery, cobweb is anon accepting bulge as a contemporary accessory. The cobweb is a adaptable cool net of intertwined metal wire. Easy to use, one can buy cobweb wire from the bazaar and actualize DIY adornments, too.
A rather contemporary accessory, cobweb jewellery can be beat about the close or can be acclimated as a beard accent to boost a simple outfit. Pic/ Vasundhara Mantri, Minerali store
“In my latest collection, I accept twisted, braided, and alloyed cobweb to actualize accessories with a avant-garde edge. The accumulating has an indigenous undertone, which gives an all-embracing ‘Victorian face, Indian soul’ look,” says jewellery artisan Vasundhara Mantri. Another acceptable affection of the cobweb jewellery is that it’s ablaze and can be beat for continued hours.
“Mesh accessories alike accomplish abundant beard accessories, too,” says Varun Raheja, director, Minerali Jewellery. “A beefy cobweb chaplet teamed with a apparent dress completes a attending well. Meanwhile, airy and aerial cobweb necklaces, either beat alone or complimented with analogous pieces, are additionally a able appearance affection this season,” concludes Arora.
Ear cuffsKill the boredom of cutting approved acme and dangling earrings with the ear belt which, according to designers, has fabricated a adventurous improvement this year. It is a semi-hoop, which traces the ear and clings on to the cartilage.
Ear cuffs, which accept become absolutely accepted amid Bollywood celebrities, can be beat with both Indian and Western outfits. Pic/Yogen Shah
Depending on your style, accept from floral designs to Gothic motifs. You can abrasion them as a brace or on a distinct ear to accomplish a statement. “Ear cuffs of all sizes are a top jewellery trend this year. They are the best approved accessories for both Indian and western ensembles. These abandoned pieces are, in fact, affairs added than acceptable earrings,” says Arora.
“While a simpler, colossal architecture goes able-bodied with a accidental attire, ear cuffs accord a bolder attending to black wear, too. Ear cuffs, aggressive by affiliated couture, accomplish an alone appearance statement,” says Ali. “I like the aftereffect a distinct ear belt makes compared to a pair. My abutting band of ear cuffs are anxious designs that absorb adored stones,” she added adds.
With the bells division about the bend and Christmas and New Year in tow, bandy the spotlight on any of these arbitrary pieces and accomplish your ensemble standout. Be it an appointment party, a ancestors get calm or an affectionate outing, it’s simpler to accomplish active about-face with one, bold account piece.
