Sixty years after it began in Rocky Mount, Bailey’s Fine Jewelry is a family-owned business with stores in Raleigh, Rocky Mount and Greenville, selling a wide range of diamonds, estate jewelry, fashion accessories and timepieces.
But Bailey’s beginnings were more than humble.
In 1948, the business started on Nash Street in Rocky Mount after Clyde Bailey in […]
Stuck in a style rut as deep as a healthy snowdrift? Check out some of the newest tomes on fashion to bust you out of the winter-wardrobe blues:
First, get your eye-candy fix by picking up “American Fashion Accessories” (Assouline, $50), a heavy-duty compendium of the best American-designed accessories from the past century, edited by Candy […]
Hello Betty Shop launches as a women’s accessories boutique designed to serve shoppers interested in buying luxury products from socially responsible designers and brands. The online shop offers high quality handbags and accessories from small emerging designers like Julie K, Minx and Mogil who either manufacture exclusively in the United States or abroad using socially […]
Global brands Ahlens, C&A, Creata, Marks & Spencer, Otto International, Pacific Brands and Redcats are scheduled to attend the China Sourcing Fairs: Fashion Accessories and Baby & Children’s Products in Shanghai. Organized by Global Sources ( http://www.globalsources.com ), the shows open today and will feature 470 booths of suppliers from Greater China. It is […]
Anita Schisano considers her style to be “girlie girl” with an edge. You’ll never see her in a frilly, swirly skirt with ruffles. She’s far more sophisticated than Barbie, as she put it.
“I like dressing in feminine, soft-flowing pants with a fitted jacket and dangly, chandelier earrings,” said Schisano. “I try to dress well, then […]
A broad array of consumer and medical products employ billionths-of-a-meter scale silver particles as embedded disinfectants. A study now suggests that if those nanoparticles get loose and into the body, they might wreak havoc with the human immune system. Documented effects occurred at very low concentrations — levels as minute as parts per trillion or […]
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Opening of the first boutique of well-known Italian luxury brand ETRO was held in Baku yesterday.
Jacopo Etro, creative director of accessories and home accessories (he is the oldest of the ETRO founder’s four children who manage the fashion house today), said that they were excited about opening of the new concept store and […]
Fashion Accessories First Inc (FAF), one of the leading suppliers of fashion jewelry and accessories to retailers worldwide, announced that it has acquired Manhattan-based Catherine Stein Design, which designs and markets fashion jewelry.
The acquisition, terms of which were not disclosed, will enable FAF to expand its product offering and increase the production capability of Catherine […]
Is there a fashion accessory more maligned, misunderstood or complex than the feather? Diamonds are forever, pearls are so Jackie O., but feathers are something much more unhinged. Wear feathers in public–as I occasionally have–and people tend to assume that (a) You are an adorable eccentric or (b) You are ridiculous and tacky. This duality […]
It is hard to describe what luxury means in the Indian context. Until 2003, when international luxury brands started coming to India, we were a society with our own refined notion of luxury. A lot of things in India do not follow norms set by other countries—we create our own definitions and parameters. For me, […]