The man behind the magnificent accessories people around the world are enjoying from Tod’s Brand had seen it all when growing up in a family of shoes manufacturers. Diego Della Valle is his name and he was born in Italy and his family shoe story began in a small shoe business that was later expanded to a factory in 1970. So, it was completely in order for Diego to develop special passion for footwear production from a tender age and indeed it happened when he finally core founded Tod’s company. One other inspiration that enabled him implement his dream company was his frequent visits to the US as well as his top-notch home country fashion elegance and luxurious lifestyle.

In his observation which certainly turnout to be his initial breakthrough was the fact that people needed a casual footwear as sophisticated as their lifestyles depicted. Tod’s company thus set to manufacture and present its very first collection that consisted of driving shoes characterized by about one hundred and thirty three stones along the soles. This JP label popularity and preference rate skyrocketed instantly amongst the distinguished upper class families. Since then, Tod’s company has done nothing but plan and implement expansion goals and that is why it has a handbag and luggage line and other accessories not to mention its seasonal exotic footwear.

If the celebrities have given the green light, why would anyone resist these designer handbags and accessories? Tod’s company handbags are made of the best leather from Italy, has fewer pouches, (read more…)

Purple being among the rare colors that are trendy in 2009, an amethyst jewelry such as a ring would be perfect. This jewel is indubitably gorgeous just like ruby quartz and it features a crystal clear violet color. Amethyst is similarly quartz stone and it is not as scarce as pearls or a stone like Tanzanite but it is available in differing qualities. Those stones that affluently contain this quartz are considered the most priceless and are frequently used to manufacture upper scale jewelry. The others are polished to boost their appearance and then utilized as embellishments.

Jewelers call the strongly colored amethyst gem whose color range is between ruby and darkest violet as Uralian and Siberian. This mysteriously beautiful stone can surprisingly turn yellow when the manufacturers exposes it to very high heat and therefore very precious.  In history, amethyst amulets are remembered because people of those days believed strongly that it could be worn at war for protection and the stone was also a way of preventing the wearers avoid extra bottles. And as crazy as it looks, its name was derived from a Greek word meaning not drunk and that is probably why amethyst existence is tied to the ancient people from the Greece.

The key sources of this gem comprise of South Africa, India, Russia, United States and Madagascar and also South America and precisely Uruguay and Brazil provide latest amethyst. (read more…)

The technology trend nowadays is amazing considering that the sharp brains are doing every thing possible to eliminate manual, tiring and painful processes so as to be done scientifically in the lab. Perhaps even precious babies will soon become manufactured products and this same brilliant development is practiced in fashion jewelry spectrum too. Instead of having a select few affording precious stones like diamonds, these bright people have found a close substitute, Cubic Zirconia being produced unnaturally in the factory or laboratory.

Similarly, this is a good way to reduce the labor and time utilized to process such precious and untouchable stones or provide a match for others that are quite rare like Moissanite or Tanzanite.  The same Cubic Zirconia stone was found naturally and in fact its first discovery happened in nineteen thirty but a shift towards artificial must have been caused by its rarity. The complex lab process might be mentally draining because of high degree of concentration needed to make the crystals but at least no one has to break their backs any longer digging it from the mines. Naturally, stones like turquoise acquire different tints depending on the iron oxide content in the stone and since Cubic Zirconia is a clone, metals oxides are added to give it a different color from sparkly clear.

Examples of these comprise metals like chromium to make it green, copper for amber, titanium for brown and many others. Cubic Zirconia have been confused with diamonds (read more…)