Bangkok--23 May--Maxima Consultants
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store (The Met Store), a museum gift and reproductions shop launches ‘AERIN Gardenia Collection’, a special jewelry set to honor the works of Charles James, the British-born fashion designer known as ‘America’s first Couturier.’ The AERIN Gardenia collection is ready for pre-order at The Met Store, the Emporium, 3rd floor. For more details, please contact Tel 02-664-9191.
The AERIN Gardenia jewelry collection is inspired by the organza jacket covered in fresh gardenias James created for Austine Hearst, who wore it over the designer’s famous Four-Leaf Clover gown. The jewelry consists of bracelet and necklace on Victorian floral jewelry. The Gardenia necklace is set in 10k Champagne gold plated, hand painted in white enamel with vintage Austrian crystals. The necklace is 17” length and priced at 34,200. Baht. The Gardenia bracelet is set in 10k Champagne gold plated, hand painted in white enamel with vintage Austrian crystals. The bracelet is priced at 20,500.- Baht.
Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978) is one of the greatest designers in America to have worked in the tradition of the Haute Couture. James’s fascination with complex cut and seaming led to the creation of key design elements. His unique design process used sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today.
Due to his love in flowers, he often attached a fresh blossom as the finishing touch to a dress before a public showing. In the spring of 1953, he created an astonishing gardenia-bedecked organza jacket for Austine Hearst (wife of William Randolph Hearst Jr.) to wear with his iconic Four Leaf Clover ball gown at a charity fashion show at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. An hour before her entrance at the grand finale, his entire workroom staff—threaded needles ready—sewed two hundred live flowers onto the jacket by hand. Mrs. Hearst triumphed in her stunning ensemble as the evocative fragrance of the gardenias flooded the ballroom, to the delight of the event’s attendees.