Personal Narrative: America's Royal Home

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Spending an evening drooling over jewelry is one of the best ways the staff at Fashion 360 Magazine like to spend their night, and that is exactly what our Style Editor, IK did this past December 15th. She got the chance to attend the launch of Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin’s jewelry collection for HSN at TOWN Residential in NYC. This event, hosted by Avenue magazine, showcased everything Consuelo has been working on for the past year. This exclusive collection, inspired by five generations of the “America’s Royal Family” include a wide variety of pearl and diamond jewelry guaranteed turn you into a princess.
This luxurious collection counts with one-of-a-kind 24 pieces that reflect the historic jewelry worn by the Vandebilt family, and the contemporary reflections of styles Consuelo
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What made you get into jewelry design and fashion?
Two days before my wedding I inherited my great-grandmother turn of the century pearl and diamond ring, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life, and when I ended up inheriting and it was the most amazing gift I have ever been given. A lot of her personal tangible items were sold at Doyle’s when I moved to New York two years ago, and I thought it was the most devastating thing. Our American history was being sold and I thought how incredible it would be if I could make an affordable priced fashion jewelry so that women can feel like a princess for a day, and that was what I really wanted to do.
I wanted for people to feel fantastic in their jewelry and I wanted to represent my family in a way my mom and sisters would be proud. It was then really important to me to make the quality of the pieces as real as possible. I wanted each piece to have the highest quality of pearls and the cc’s and that is what we did. We really took the time finessing that.
How long was the process in creating the

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