Harry Winston's Glittering New York Love Letter

The sights and sounds of New York have proved to be such a wellspring of inspiration that citing it is almost a cliché-that is, unless you happen to be Harry Winston With its latest collection, the designers at the 86-year-old house have deftly avoided the overworked iconography of NYC and instead turned the city as Winston saw and experienced it during the early 20th century into a decidedly glamorous 32-piece line Released in late September, the New York Collection is actually composed of eight mini lines-each featuring two or three pieces that distill a specific part of the city held dear to the brand's namesake.

Take the City Lights range, which nods to the bright lights and colorful costumes of Broadway with a necklace, a bracelet, and earrings that offset bold emeralds, red and blue sapphires, and yellow diamonds with sparkling colorless stones in a playful variety of cuts The Brownstone line takes a similarly abstract approach, mimicking the vertical lines of the Upper West Side brownstone where Winston was born, with angular baguette diamonds arranged in a glittering pendant necklace and swinging chandelier earrings The 718 range celebrates the additions to the city's landscape made by Winston himself-namely the 18th-century style of the Harry Winston flagship salon at 718 Fifth Avenue that he built in the early 1960s.

You certainly can't expect to catch the 718 Marble Marquetry diamond and sapphire necklace or the elegant emerald, sapphire, diamond, and aquamarine Central Park Mosaic bracelet walking down the streets of Manhattan-that's not Harry Winston's style. . Source