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BY EMILI VESILIND Sterling silver necklace and earrings by Ariana Boussard-Reifel It’s a new year. Hence, the perfect time to assess your jewelry collection—weed out styles you don’t love or don’t wear to make room for ones that excite and delight you. If you’re in the market for new jewelry acquisitions, your choices are endless. Like fashion, fine jewelry is in a state of healthy flux: designers and brands are, generally speaking, less beholden to trends than they have been

Here's why! (Plus a brief history of American costume jewelry) Costume jewelry by Diane Love on display at NYC Jewelry Week’s “Vintage Style and Stories: Costume Jewelry Re-Imagined” (photo by Daniel Terna) When we look back on jewelry trends of 2025, vintage costume jewelry will inevitably stand out. A new coffee table book on the subject, impressive auction results, and a well-attended exhibition (more on all three in a minute) made this an especially exciting year for a je