Jewelry’s Shining Stars : The Next Generation by Beth Bernstein

EDITOR'S REVIEW

• The latest book ‘Jewelry’s Shining Stars : The Next Generation’ (ACC Artbooks, July 2024) by Beth Bernstein delves into the hearts and souls and, sometimes amusing, behind- the-scenes stories of 45 independent, irrepressible and spirited women who create jewellery as a form of adornment.
• But, even more enthusiastically, they create jewellery as a means to empower the wearer with their designs.
• And the author thinks back to the female pioneers—Jeanne Boivin, Juliette Moutard,  Suzanne Belperron, Coco Chanel, Jeanne Toussaint, Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso and Angela Cummings—who in their own times tore down the boundaries of what was once, ironically, a male-dominated industry, and who paved the way for those featured in this book.
• It seemed the perfect time to feature today’s strong, formidable, emerging, and independent females at different stages of their careers, influential in crossing the boundaries of art, function, and wearability.
• This compilation of talented women who hail from around the globe, have learned techniques to shake up classic jewellery codes and break with tradition.