Name: Jenna Lyons Takes Us on a Hunt for Vintage Denim & Diamonds | Talk Shop | Harper's BAZAAR
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I don't even want to look at the price tag.

I'm Jenna Lyons, and I'm going to take you into one of my favorite places, Macalow Gallery, to look at some vintage jewelry.

Vintage jewels are some of my favorite things, particularly when they sparkle.

Years ago, when I was going on a red carpet, I wanted something special for a very simple outfit.

And I was connected to the team at Macalow, and I realized they had some of the most exquisite, unusual pieces.

And so this bracelet here, it looks like something made as a piece of architecture.

Isn't that cool?  And that was the inspiration.

I know growing up, I always associated diamonds and Tiffany's with New York, just obviously breakfast at Tiffany's.

And I remember the very first time I came to New York with my mom.

I remember clasping onto her and her walking through the streets and going into the Tiffany store and just losing my little mind.

I was, you know, I think I was like 10 years old.

And it was the first time I went, like I didn't grow up with diamond stores.

And I could not believe my cute little eyes.

This is by Pierre Sterlet, one of the great French jewelers.

And this would have been made probably into the 60s.

I think a lot of people have a tendency to make these things precious and not wear them every day.

And I feel like I actually find them more interesting to wear every day and wear with jeans or like when they're on a red carpet.

As the only time you wear diamonds, like then they don't get their moment.

It's interesting, like the way that they catch the light in the daytime is so different.

Real jewelry is done in three dimensions.

I think that one's going to be the winner.

I think it'd be nice because I'd love to wear something for I'm doing a bunch of press next week.

That one's like $10,000.  And what about this guy?

Well, maybe I should do that instead of one big one.

We just picked out some jewelry and now we're going to go find denim at What Goes Around Comes Around.

Hi, we are downtown at What Goes Around Comes Around.

I have an obsession with vintage jeans, so we're going to go and take a look.

Not only can you find beautiful bags and clothing, but they also have an amazing denim bar, which is where I got these babies.

We have some more options we can show you.

I think we can maybe try it on and you can kind of see how that feels with a couple of pairs.

The thing that I like most about vintage jeans is everything has stretch in it now.

And one of the things that stretch does is it makes the denim a little crepey.

So it creates a funny little like texture to the denim, which also prevents it from washing down the way vintage denim washes down.

So when you have two seams like this and see how the denim is like, the color is sort of welling up, it's called pooling.

A lot of stretch fabrics don't do that anymore.

Like when you actually start to work in it and start to look at fabrics and you're selecting fabrics, you start to understand.

And it wasn't until I started working at J.Crew and got much more involved in denim, that you start to get interested in the history and where things come from.

Like there's things that are happening in this denim that are totally different than this one.

So for instance, the weave on this one is a different, like you see, this is called creping and this is actually a totally different striation.

So this is a completely different weave than this.

It'll yield a totally different look and feel.

Unless you're doing things by hand, the factories need something to sort of get that authentic look.

I mean, I'm sure I own more than 40 pair of jeans.

You want them cut short, you want them cut narrow.

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