Cool Jewelry Inspired by Frida Kahlo

She's Frida Kahlo, of course: artist, activist and feminist idol, her image invoked in regular cycles since at least the late '70s, with a reverence more often reserved for popular saints A version of that show, "Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving," at the Brooklyn Museum this year, is focused largely on Kahlo's wardrobe and accouterments, not least the painter's penchant for piling on rings, layering weighty chokers and silver bangles, and weaving garlands through her hair Like Kahlo's personal jewelry, Ms.

Dyment's collection of gold and enamel portrait rings have a talismanic quality Like the Kahlo originals, some pieces, including evil eye earrings and hammered gold hands resembling a pair Picasso was said to have given Kahlo, are imbued with touches of mysticism "Kahlo's jewels were a crucial and carefully considered part of the face she presented to the world," Clare Phillips writes in the volume of Frida lore that accompanied the V&A exhibition.

For Kahlo, debilitated throughout her life by a spinal injury she suffered in her youth, heaping on trinkets was a way of arming herself against pain As the American muralist Lucienne Bloch told the Kahlo biographer Hayden Herrera, Frida tore through New York dime stores "Like a tornado; she'd find cheap costume jewelry," Ms Bloch recalled, "And she'd make it look fantastic". Source