
1980s · 1980s · British
Production
handmade
Material
paste stones
Culture
British
Movement
New Romanticism · Power Dressing
Influences
Art Deco geometric patterns · 1920s collar necklaces
A dramatic collar-style necklace constructed entirely of small rhinestones or paste stones arranged in geometric patterns against a black background. The piece features angular, Art Deco-inspired motifs with diamond-shaped elements flanking a central circular void. The rhinestones create intricate mosaic-like patterns with varying densities - some areas densely packed with stones, others forming negative space through strategic placement. The overall silhouette suggests a wide collar that would sit high on the neck, typical of 1980s New Romantic fashion's theatrical aesthetic. The construction appears to be on a flexible base allowing the piece to conform to the wearer's neckline while maintaining its bold geometric structure.
These two pieces speak the same visual language of 1980s geometric maximalism, but through completely different mediums. The jacket's intarsia knitting creates bold angular blocks in burgundy and gold that echo the sharp diamond and chevron patterns spelled out in rhinestones on the collar necklace—both drawing from the same well of Art Deco revival that defined the decade's hunger for architectural drama.
Both pieces pulse with the same 1980s obsession with geometric power—the rhinestone necklace spelling out "WOW" in sharp, pixelated letters while the sweater builds its authority through interlocking triangular patterns that read like digital camouflage. The necklace screams New Romantic theater with its crystalline drama, but the sweater whispers the same message through disciplined craft, its monochrome geometry as calculated as any club kid's armor.
These two pieces capture the '80s obsession with turning everyday accessories into armor through sheer sparkle overload. The champagne plastic glasses transform vision correction into a diamanté crown, while the geometric collar necklace creates a breastplate of black and crystal rhinestones — both weaponizing glamour in that distinctly '80s way where subtlety was the enemy.
The rhinestone collar's angular geometry and the kimono's stylized carriage wheels both pulse with Art Deco's machine-age rhythms, though they're separated by six decades and an ocean. Where the kimono translates traditional Japanese motifs through the lens of 1920s modernism—those wheels becoming bold, intersecting circles in jewel tones—the 1980s necklace strips the same geometric language down to pure crystal mathematics.


The rhinestone collar's angular geometry and the kimono's stylized carriage wheels both pulse with Art Deco's machine-age rhythms, though they're separated by six decades and an ocean. Where the kimono translates traditional Japanese motifs through the lens of 1920s modernism—those wheels becoming bold, intersecting circles in jewel tones—the 1980s necklace strips the same geometric language down to pure crystal mathematics.


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That golden twenties dress and the 1980s rhinestone collar are both drunk on the same geometric high — angular Art Deco patterns that slice through curves with mathematical precision. The dress whispers its geometry through delicate silk embroidery, while the necklace screams it in black and white rhinestones, but both are obsessed with the same sharp-edged vocabulary of diamonds, chevrons, and stepped pyramids.