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 Hot Colors For Fall 2005
I’ve listed the colors that the fashion industry predicts to be “in” this season, and pointed out some good choices of gemstones and other beads that may be used to create the perfect complementary jewelry.
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 Fall 2005 Jewelry Trends
Jewelry trends in form and style for the Fall 2005 season.
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 Making The Trends Your Own
Tips on incorporating this year’s style trends with your own unique designs.
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 Jewelry Trends in 2005
Where are the jewelry style trends going this year?
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 Influential Styles - 2005
2005 styles that will influence our jewelry designs.
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 Colorful Components for Spring and Summer Designs
Colorful components you can use in your jewelry designs.
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 Wedding Jewelry Trends
2005 wedding jewelry trends.
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 Long and Lean
A sensational look for this season’s jewelry (2005).
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 Endless Circles
One of the hottest trends to emerge this fall is the circle. From simple pendants hanging from a chain, to complex linked bracelets and elaborate earrings, this simple and elegant form is everywhere.
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 Black is Back
The jewelry industry’s top designers have revived this sultry shade by incorporating it into all of the season’s hottest design trends, with terrific results!
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 Jewelry Trends for Spring 2006
Traditionally, the bohemian look abounds in spring fashion with chunky, bold pieces that consist of earthy materials such as turquoise, wood, leather and textured metals. 2006 is shaping up to be much the same, while fall’s hottest trends are carried over and incorporated into the popular looks for spring.
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 Chic Chandeliers
Blink your eyes in the fashion world, and when you open them, everything has changed. A good example of this is the complete turnaround in earrings styles since the fall. Just a few short months ago, the earring scene was full of long, linear designs with chain, discs and briolettes.
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 Fantastic Filigree
It’s becoming more and more apparent that spring 2006 will be an interesting season in the fashion world. Many once-neglected classics are being brought back into the spotlight and renewed in the collections of both clothing and accessories designers.
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 Margie's Muse: Triadic and True
by Margie Deeb
Triadic combinations exhibit bold, energetic, and striking contrasts because the members of the triadic tribe are neither analogous nor complementary. They come from all over the wheel.
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 Margie’s Muse: Yellow Summer
by Margie Deeb
Pro cycling’s greatest race, the Tour de France, consumes me during the month of July. And then there’s this weather... the blazing sun that beats down on us here in the southeastern US. So with Tour having ended, naturally I am thinking of yellow, the most illuminating color of our spectrum.
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 Margie's Muse: Why C-M-Y?
by Margie Deeb
I encourage artists to learn and use the C-M-Y wheel, in which cyan stands in for what you know to be primary blue, and magenta fills in for red. This month we’ll explore why.
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 Margie's Muse: Fall Colors Abound
by Margie Deeb
Fall, my favorite season, is a flamboyant time of year. Rich and brilliant colors drift down as if from the sky and blanket the ground. Pumpkins and squash cover the dinner table.
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 About Style: Reflections on the Season’s Look
By Ann Turner
This fall, the mainstream fashion market also places an emphasis on the “organic” theme. It can be seen in lifestyle magazines, fashion publications, and even in the offerings on supermarket shelves.
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 Margie's Muse: Vintage Travel Poster Color
by Margie Deeb
I've been color tripping with some vintage, art deco travel posters from the 1930’s. Come along.... Today, destinations visually lure us with lush, full color photography in vivid colors.
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 About Style: Making Sense of It
By Ann Turner
I’ve often asked myself how the spectacular oddities presented at this or that seasonal fashion show could actually be accepted as the latest stylish look, to be imitated, and sported by those who consider themselves the elite.
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 About Style: It’s Party Time!
By Ann Turner
The holiday season is here and with it comes a series of festive events and seasonal parties. It’s time to dust off the party duds and update the look. While you’re at it, maybe its time to review your assets
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 Margie's Muse: Green for the Holidays
by Margie Deeb
Green is the color of fertility and new life, growth and abundance. Nature uses it as a background for all that buds, blossoms, crawls and flies. Green harmonizes with everything in nature’s rich cornucopia.
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 Margie's Muse: The Excitement of Blue and Orange
by Margie Deeb
As an antidote to the drab winter blahs, let’s explore the vibrancy of complementary colors. Specifically blue and orange. This complementary relationship is that of ice and fire.
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 About Style: A Note about Fads, Name-dropping & Fashion Finds
By Ann Turner
This month, there are an abundance of “winter SALES” advertised to save you “up to 50% off PLUS an extra 10% off” with the store’s postcard. How can a fashion conscious person resist? I say think before you buy!
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 Margie's Muse: The Low-key Palette
by Margie Deeb
A "low-key" color scheme refers to a palette of tones with middle and low-value (dark), low intensity, and low contrast. Colors mixed with black, called "shades," are low-key.
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 About Style: Trends in 07 - Wear what you want
By Ann Turner
I’m thinking that Spring won’t present too much of a style challenge to anyone, actually. I have dyed a few of last year’s pieces to refresh their appearance or update my message, and I will certainly make a bunch of new accessories
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 Margie's Muse: The High-Key Palette
by Margie Deeb
A "high-key" color scheme refers to a palette of tones with middle and high-value (light), bright colors (if they’re not dark, like violets and deep blues), and not a lot of contrast. Colors mixed with white, called "tints,"
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 About Style: What Clothes Tell Us: Medium & Message
By Ann Turner
Your clothes say far more about you than you may realize. Not only are you signaling others about you, but also they re-enforce your own preconceptions about yourself. It's a good idea to re -evaluate occasionally
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 Margie's Muse: Light Tips from Byzantine Mosaics
by Margie Deeb
The medium of beads is a close cousin to mosaics, and I often think of beading as a more structured form of mosaic. What drew me to glass beads was their exquisite dance with light (and thus color, because color is light).
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 About Style: Jewelry Trends for 07
By Ann Turner
Jewelry holds an important position in this year’s fashions. The hottest trends in jewelry include eclectic mixes of big beads (stone, organic, and manmade), bulky chains, and earrings.
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 Margie's Muse: Metamerism in Action
by Margie Deeb
Have you ever bought two garments in a store that matched, only to find that when you went out into daylight they didn’t match at all? Or maybe in the bedroom you put on what you thought were two matching socks
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 Accessories: Another Word for TEMPTATION!
By Ann Turner
Spring has sprung, and summer is on the horizon. How can one plan to look good when the weather and temperature are so uncertain? Well, the obvious answer is layers, but to what extent?
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 Margie’s Muse: Cool off with Caribbean Colors
By Margie Deeb
Its getting hot, especially in the thirsty southeast right now, where we desperately need rain.How to use color to cool off? Let’s visit the Caribbean... Clear blue-green waters, jewel-toned orchids, ...the colors of Caribbean
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 About Style: Cool Styling in Hot Weather
By Ann Turner
If you love fashion but don’t think about it all the time, you’re probably wishing that looking good could be easier to accomplish. If you have a busy life beyond dressing, you may have wished that someone would lay out a few well outfits .
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 Color Theory For Bead Artists
by Patricia C Vener
Light is invisible. We do not see light but rather we see because of light. We see because our eyes and brains have evolved a sensitivity to a tiny subset of energies of the whole electromagnetic spectrum.
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 Margie’s Muse: Integrate Your Background Colors
by Margie Deeb
I’ve had students tell me that they can successfully use any colors they want in a composition as long as they place them all on a black background. I’ve heard glass bead makers proclaim a white background
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 About Style: The Summer Doldrums
By Ann Turner
Fashion sense meets the peremptory call for comfort: The summer Doldrums have set in. The weather is hot and humid. Its time to kick back and take it easy. After all, it’s just too darn hot to wear more than is absolutely necessary.
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 Margie’s Muse: Making the Most of Monochromatic
by Margie Deeb
The successful monochromatic palette uses variations of one color to make a statement. The result is elegant, clean, and visually appealing, especially in cooler colors.
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 Margie’s Muse: Liven it Up with Complements
by Margie Deeb
The October 2007 issue of Bead & Button magazine published my article about contrasting colors in their “Expert Advice” column. The Muse will also tell you all about how you can inject spirit and vitality into a flagging color scheme.
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 About Style - Why Fashion Matters
By Ann Turner
In our own way, each of us contends with fashion on a daily basis. Whether we love fashion and follow it blindly, or abhor it as the banner of conformity and social elitism it has become, fashion affects us all.
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 Margie’s Muse: The Yellow-Violet Dance
by Margie Deeb
Yellow and violet are not easy to work with. Depending on proportions of each color, the message conveyed by a yellow-violet harmony changes drastically.
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 Margie’s Muse: Warm Up To Orange
by Margie Deeb
The chill outside escorts autumn, so I naturally turn to the orange, the warmest hue on the color wheel, to get cozy. We find it all around us now, in Halloween decorations, pumpkins, fall leaves and flowers.
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 About Style Fashion Statement or Mistake?
By Ann Turner
A few days ago, police detained man in Tulsa because he was wearing handcuffs. The cuffs were clasped one to a wrist, the other cuff left dangling. The police checked for warrants and released the man.
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 Margie’s Muse: White Christmas
by Margie Deeb
One of the rooms in a Civil War home was decorated in white: white tree, white wrapping papers, white antique Father Christmas dolls, white flowers, all aglow in candle light. The textures were soft, making gentle what might have felt stark
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 About Style: A Holiday Action Plan
By Ann Turner
It’s December 1, 2007, and the end-of year Holiday season is officially underway. Ladies and gents are dusting off their favorite party gear and making decisions about what to buy for upcoming events.
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 Color & Dominance
by Margie Deeb
Harmony is created when there exists a balance of similarities and differences. Enough concordance and enough contrast must be at play to achieve dynamic tension.
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 Change the world with your credit card!
By Ann Turner
Where mini-skirts defined the '60s and legwarmers are associated with the '80s, our new Millennium will be remembered for the shift towards ethical style. Contemporary women are asking "Does my carbon-footprint look big in this?”
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 Ancient Egyptian Color
by Margie Deeb
For roughly 3,000 years tomb painting in Pharaonic Egypt employed a consistent palette: three- to four-color combinations hinged on red or yellow. These combinations, and the hues within them, varied.
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 Jewelry outlook for 2008
By Ann Turner
This season’s Jewelry designs represent a range of contemporary looks and creative designs from classic and vintage designs to the sculptural and bold. A key theme in all of this year’s fashions is luxury.
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 THE ELEMENTS: The Air Palette
by Margie Deeb
Air symbolizes the winds of change and forces of transcendence. In the Tarot and ancient magic, air is represented by a sword, and speaks to us of freedom, wisdom and power.
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 Looking At Fashion - Right Now the Eyes Have It
By Ann Turner
Eyewear is a hot accessory in today’s fashion scene. In other eras, people looked upon eyewear as more of a medical necessity. However, the days when eyeglasses ere seen as a fashion disaster are gone for now.
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 Cultures of the World: Latin America
By Margie Deeb
Each Latin country has its bounty of spectacular colors and combinations. From Mexico all the way down to the southernmost tip of South America, the colors vibrate and sing. People paint their homes bright orange and pink.
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 I Owe My Fashion Insight to Lucy and Ethel
By Ann Turner
I learned about the rarefied world of couture a long time ago from Lucy and Ethel in the mid-1950s. The enlightening episode was “Lucy Gets A Paris Gown”
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 LIVING COLOR: The Briny Deep
by Margie Deeb
Poet Mary Oliver writes of the ocean “This enormity, this cauldron of changing greens and blues, is the great palace of the earth.” A dazzling array of hues lurk beneath the ocean’s surface.
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 What’s In A Name
By Ann Turner
Almost everyone has heard the term Haute Couture. To those in the know, Haute Couture is a reference to custom-made garments conforming to explicit guidelines that only a few design studios within the fashion collective meet.
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 ARTISTS’ HISTORICAL PALETTES: Modern Art
by Margie Deeb
From the late 19th century on, artists rebelled. They experimented with new materials and new ways of seeing. They examined and redefined the very function of art.
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 Same Colors, Different Position
by Margie Deeb
I had the honor and pleasure of teaching color and beading classes at the Great Lakes Beadworkers’ Guild. What an energetic, generous, and talented group of bead artists live up in Michigan! It was a joy-filled week.
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