Turkish jewelry – Katherine Ainsworth

Think Pink!

By Katherine | March 10, 2016 |

For this week’s challenge, I didn’t go vintage. I went with a piece that I collected on one of my buying trips to Istanbul (back when I had my jewelry business, gitane NYC). I love this necklace because it pairs a jewelry staple – pearls – with something more daring, namely a gold metal pendant…

Day 114: Cruising to Norway

By Katherine | April 8, 2013 |

{Oslo harbor} Since Easter weekend is a 4-day break here in Germany, my fiancée and I decided to try something new: a cruise! We ‘got our feet wet’ with a quickie: train from Hamburg to Kiel, overnight on the ship from Kiel to Oslo, one night stay in Oslo, then another overnight on the…

Chanel Couture, re-done

By Katherine | July 19, 2011 |

As a fashion enthusiast, I was eager to see the roundups from the recent F/W couture runway shows here in Paris. Almost without exception, I love the Chanel collections. Besides being elegant and beautifully done, Chanel often includes Byzantine references, of which I’m a HUGE FAN. This season’s Chanel show was lovely, but I was…