Celebrity stylist Kate Young has created some of the most iconic looks we’ve seen on the red carpet in recent memory, and knows better than anyone how jewelry can provide the perfect finishing touch to a showstopping look. At this year’s SAG Awards, she dressed Selena Gomez in a dazzling Bulgari Serpenti choker. At the BAFTAs, Sienna Miller embodied effortless chic in diamond tassels by Boucheron. And who could forget Margot Robbie in her Van Cleef & Arpels Zip necklace at the 2015 Oscars?
Fortunately, you no longer need a Hollywood star’s bank balance to benefit from this self-confessed jewelry geek’s expertise. The New York-based stylist has drawn on her own enviable collection of vintage baubles to create a collection with Monica Vinader. The hardworking pair of entrepreneurial creatives were introduced by a mutual friend, and got to Zooming during lockdown when the lack of travel and red-carpet events meant they had the time to devote to designing a collection together.
Vinader says she knew it was a match made in heaven from their very first video call. “You said, ‘Hang on a minute, I’m just going to go to my safe.’ And you literally turned around and started showing us your jewelry box with all your amazing collection – your vintage pieces and the things you loved,” Vinader told Young during an exclusive conversation with Vogue.
“I love fashion, but it can be so transient. Things that look important can look really tired a year and half later. Jewelry doesn’t do that,” says Young, who counts Elsa Peretti among her favorite designers. One of the best things about awards season, she says, is seeing the look on the faces of new interns when they unpack a diamond necklace for the first time. “They cannot believe their eyes – there’s a magic in those rocks,” she says with a smile.
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