“It’s traditional jewelry silhouettes we’re focusing on here,” said Eddie Borgo, at an exclusive presentation for Vogue of his second pre-fall collection on Thursday. “But then we modernize them to make them ours.” So along with a core collection of the three-and-a-half-year-old brand’s best sellers from past seasons—geometrically inclined adornments available all year round, that include hefty signet rings, chunky studs, chandelier earrings, and layers of chain, cube, and block pyramid cuffs—Borgo has introduced a few classical updates into the mix. Cue the star locket—a polished, jagged gold trinket which opens to allow room for a photograph to be sentimentally tucked away inside. And the tongue-in-cheek, haute bling charm bracelets dangling with crystal letters spelling out the name of the brand’s home, New York. “We’ve been asked for Hong Kong now too,” he added with a smile. In more ways than one, it seems that Borgo is set for world domination, one pavé-encrusted city at a time.

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Eddie Borgo is leaving his urban comfort zone and taking a jaunt into the wild with Fall 2011, a collection that the New York–based designer will present in Paris next week. Plastered on the walls of his studio in midtown Manhattan are pictures of spindly-legged praying mantises, hotly colored beetles, and orchids in full bloom. As Borgo tells it, the idea was to give geometric rigor to organic shapes and import some of the architectural edge of the city into the natural world. As for specific points of reference, he cites biologist Ernst Haeckel and the seminal book Art Forms of Nature and it’s those detailed, anatomical illustrations that give the new jewels their dark and sinister luster. In keeping with this taste for danger, Borgo is featuring the most venomous of species in his series of pendants, like a silver scorpion suspended on a string of onyx beads that happens to sit within stinging distance of the wearer’s jugular.

(vogue.com)

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