What's Hot… May Met Ball in NYC - ‘ Chic Meets Pomp’

Celebrities from all over the world flew into New York for one of the hottest tickets in town, The Annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Ball. This year the ball honoured 20th century couturier Charles James. The theme was White Tie and Decorations which the attendees strictly adhered to as well as making their own statements on fashion, whilst Anna Wintour, who helps organise the event, unveiled ‘The Costume Centre’.

Anna Wintour arrives wearing Chanel for the 2014 Anna Wintour Costume Center Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Sarah Jessica Parker was amongst many celebrity invitees who pay $25,000 on a ticket to attend the event and raise money for fashion charities.

Sarah Jessica Parker in an Oscar de la Renta and Fred Leighton jewelry

McCartney with Reese Witherspoon, Cara Delevinge, Rihanna and Kate Bosworth all in dresses by the designer.

David Beckham in a Ralph Lauren Black Label suit and Victoria Beckham in VB

The fashion exhibition was a tribute to Charles James, the British Born American based fashion designer who was born in 1906 and in 1928 was revolutionary in fashion by introducing drapes, folds, wraps and straight forms to dresses.  His designs, dubbed ‘the Taxi dress’, ‘the Jersey Lobster dress’ and ‘the Tree ball gown’ were known by the way they traced the silhouette down to the upper calves. His designs paved the way for international couture. “He was an artist who happened to be working with fashion as his medium,” said curator of the exhibition Harold Koda.

Written by Rosie May Reddington

Behind the Scenes with the Garden of Stones collection

After months of design concepts, Lolo & Galago’s signature jewellery collection, Garden of Stones, was created and met with acclaim. Today, we wanted to take you behind the scenes to see how the collection was developed and the thought process behind it. 

An early concept design for the Garden of Stones unique chain rings

All new jewellery collections are started with a design concept with which they must be created to. Our concepts are chosen to embrace fashion, design and style from around the world and in this case, our Garden of Stones collection was designed around the mantra of modern, minimalistic design with clean lines and simple monotone colours being the trend the collection needed to embrace. Such a strong influence was the minimalist aspect of the design that it was initially was crafted under the working title of the ‘Minimalist Collection’. 

Once the designs are finalised, a CAD program is used to test the pieces and ensure they are comfortable to wear and to help make final changes 

Taking this concept, our designers expanded it into a collection focusing purely on stunning, single gemstones that reflected a minimalistic, yet luxurious lifestyle. 
This proved to be a beautiful starting point but it was soon decided that the collection needed defined lines, as in the minimalist style, across the body of the jewellery.

This inspired the two-tone gold colours, one for the jewellery body and one for the stone mounting, that became the signature of the collection. In particular, Lolo & Galago combined both black and rose gold in some pieces for a unique and edgy look. 

Colours were of particular importance for the Garden of Stones collection, as we wanted to create a collection that could be mixed and matched across earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets yet still remain holistic.