Tag: Style History
My Cartier at the V&A Review
I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that Cartier was one of the exhibitions of 2025. The first major UK exhibition on Cartier in nearly 30 years, the 2025 V&A exhibition included over 350 pieces from several museum and private collections. Pieces worn […]
The Style History of Rose Bertin
With Women’s History Month 2025 (round 1) quickly coming to a close, I wanted to spend our last Style File Friday of the month focusing on a female designer. While I’ve looked at several popular designers from the late nineteenth and twentieth century (scroll down […]
The History of the Belgian Crown Jewels
Welcome to 2025, with the start of a brand new series on royal jewels for Style File Friday! Each month, we are going to explore some of the key jewels in the royal vaults- monarchy by monarchy. Each royal family has quite a different collection […]
Royal Jewels: Red and Green Necklaces
For the last Style File Friday of Blogmas (by this time next week, we will be into our year end wrap-ups), we continue on with our look at royal jewels! I find that although tiaras are usually the showstoppers of royal jewels- we all look […]
Royal Jewels: Red and Green Bracelets
We are back once again with a festive fashion post for Style File Friday again! While I enjoy writing all of my Blogmas posts, these are some of my favourites. Yes, they take a lot of research but there is nothing like jewellery history to […]





