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Jewelry Shouldn’tBy Maria FIchtncr . Knight Newspapers ServiceMrAMI — For Celia Sebiri, jewelry is not:“Something you just put around your neck.”Or “taking a light bulb and putting a string through it.”Or anything that is “gloppy, bulbous and swollen.“People,” she says, “think they can take something from the time of Tutankhamen andreproduce it tn slush metal, and they can’t.“When I see you coming towards me on the sidewalk, I don’t want to see the big lion with the ring in its nose that’s banging against your chest. I want to see you.”On the other hand, Sebiri, who won one of last fall’s two Coty Awards for jewelry, has some equally firm ideas about what jewelry is and what, at its best, it can be.Jewelry fs, first, body adornment, part of the total package that includes clothing, makeup, hairstyle and other accessories.Currently, when “womenare confused as to what designers are doing with clothes,” it provides the out. If bold and gimmicky fashions aren’t for you, play around with accessories. It’s less chancy and more fun.A meat broker’s wife, Celia Sebiri lives on Greenwich Village's Washington Squarein an eclectic, improperly decorated house full of shells and Shih Tzus, old ivory, little boxes and flowers delivered fresh every Tuesday,'.Her designs, she said, are Inspired by passages from old books or something as trivial as a dried-up sea grape leaf and executed by young artisans working under hersupervision.The pieces are priced frommm.“Women think how a piece will look tomorrow,” she says.“Men, who like simple clean-lined pieces but not earrings, because they like to reach out and touch you, and the earrings get in the way, think of how it will look five years from now.”For all of us, she turns out a snail shell choker; a hugemosaic cuff bracelet inlaid with bits of turquoise, jet, coral, mother of pearl; a pendant with two silver leopards and a sterling silver shell with a mirror in its back to tell the wearer she's the* fairest of them all.
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Willoughby News Herald
Willoughby, Ohio, US
Thu, May 30, 1974
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