MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jewelry designer and founder of Tarnish Jewels Debi Wechsler launches a stunning summer collection for 2011, crafting bold and innovative jewelry accents for this years hottest fashion trends. Debi’s unique brand of jewelry borrows elements from the Georgian, Victorian, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau movements to create a style that is both classic and postmodern: posh, elegant, and ornate, yet fun, playful, and edgy. The new Tarnish summer collection, which critics are calling “delightfully nouveau vintage,” combines intertwined multi-strand chains, precious stones, charms, beads, jewels, woodcarvings, lockets, and fascinating trinkets from exotic locations around the globe. Collected pieces from travels to India, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, various countries throughout Europe, and antique family heirlooms make up the variegated mediums of Debi Wechsler’s striking art form. Her multifarious layering techniques, vibrant color choices, and uncommon textures make a bold and confident statement that is not pretentious or ostentatious, but rather refreshing, original, and deeply intriguing.
Debi featured her eye-catching necklaces, bracelets, and earrings at the celebrity gift room of this year’s MTV Movie Awards, garnering significant acclaim from well-known Hollywood celebrities. At the awards, Tarnish Jewels hit center-stage, exhibiting a catalog as stunning as the debut collection that propelled Debi to the forefront of Miami’s fashion industry. Ultimately, hot new celebrities, such as Two and a Half Men star Kelly Stables donned Debi’s pieces during the award ceremony. Debi’s Hollywood appearance attracted two renowned high-fashion retail outlets, Madison Los Angeles and Milk. Special selections from the Tarnish Jewels summer collection are now being sold at eight retail locations throughout the United States, in addition to the fabulous pieces on the Tarnish Jewels website.
Debi Wechsler comments on the excitement behind the Tarnish Jewels 2011 summer collection: “This summer is all about bold colors, free-flowing lines, and uninhibited combinations that are not only modern, but also pay homage to the vintage motifs of the 1970s.” Debi adds, “Each unique piece is carefully hand crafted to ensure the greatest originality and exclusivity… When you wear Tarnish Jewels, you’re not just wearing another mass-manufactured product; you’re wearing a singular work of art!”
Debi’s unique mélange of vintage and modern design has been featured and admired by thousands of art aficionados. Her work has been highlighted on countless runways, Ocean Drive Magazine, Miami Magazine, The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and in the past featured in several galleries in New York’s famous SoHo district. Tarnish Jewels donates a portion of every sale to the Lotus House Shelter, a South Florida organization financially supported by the Wynwood Art Fair. This summer, fashion-forward trendsetters from east coast to west coast will look forward to sporting the Tarnish summer collection with their most casual—and their most elegant—daytime and nighttime apparel.
For more information, visit http://www.tarnishjewels.com.
About Debi Wechsler and Tarnish Jewels:
Debi Wechsler has dedicated her life to the art of handcrafted jewelry. She earned her degree from the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and worked for high-fashion jewelry designers on many New York runway shows. Today she is the owner, operator, and designer for Tarnish Jewels. Debi Wechsler lives in Miami, Florida and currently serves on the board of the Lotus House Shelter, as well as the Host Committee for Art Basel and the Wynwood Arts Happening.
For inquiries about Tarnish Jewels, please call: 305-794-6031.