Monday , November 16, 2009
Love: Allison Daniel Designs
As an instinctual minimalist, I'm starting to understand why people love accessories so much, especially as I delve deeper into the niche of jewelry, handbag and shoe designers. After all, accessories are almost guaranteed to fit you all your life, no matter how your dress size may fluctuate, and there isn't as high of a level of anxiety around baubles and bijouterie as there is around something like pants or jeans. (Seriously, how often do you say, "This necklace makes my hips look wide?") Jewelry lets you be playful, fanciful, angstful, mean-ful, graceful and all sorts of -fuls, and there's often so much beauty and creativity in its design that you really do feel like you're collecting art. Which is why we're psyched to bring you this necklace from Allison Daniel, which (of course) is the latest booty we've scored for you to win in our Spirit Animal House Charity Raffle. Allison Daniel is actually the brainchild of Allison Moses, a NYC-based designer who has been making jewelry since she was a young lass. (The "Daniel" from Allison Daniel is her husband's first name -- isn't that sweet?) She studied at RISD before college, then went onto a design degree at American University and did time at Fashion Institute of Technology. Well-trained with a solid eye for detail and proportion, she brings a high level of skill to her intricate pieces, and her work has a remarkable stylistic diversity -- she can do everything from ornamental romantic to whimsical hippie to haute preppy. (I'm betting her fleur-de-lys necklaces will show up on "Gossip Girl" -- if they haven't already made an appearance on the show.) But no matter what, it's all incredibly charming and rendered in beautiful antique golds and silvers, often hand-dipped in pewter for that heirloom-worthy feel and custom-made for the beautiful likes of you.
For Spirit Animal House, we've got a gorgeous, gorgeous necklace with a beautiful leaf pendant from Allison Daniel that, yes, you can win, if you buy a raffle ticket. It's a longer-length necklace and just perfect for the fall -- the leaf and gorgeous brass-y finish reminds me of serene forest walks with the sunlight glinting through branches in the afternoon. It's feminine, it's bohemian, it's substantial and it's seriously covetable -- I keep taking it out of the box and go "oooh" over it a few times a day. As per usual, proceeds from the raffle go to our favorite beloved animal charities, and you're guaranteed to get something unique and beautiful and well-chosen with love and affection -- because we like you so much and enjoy feeling like weirdly girly Santa Clauses at the end of summer.
Look at the level of detail on the leaf -- you can see the little leaf veins!
Want to a chance to win this? Buy a raffle ticket or two and this little beauty could be yours:
Tags: accessories, Allison Daniel, jewelry, leaves, necklaces
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