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Featured this month................. Jill Schwartz
Jill’s career as a jewelry designer started when she was 3 years
old. Forbidden to have pierced ears, she craftily resorted to gluing
beads to her ears. The daughter of two designers, you could say
she has design in her blood. You could also say she crossed an
ocean to find it.
While her design education from Cornell and Pratt gave her discipline, it was her travels through Europe in her early 20s that
ignited her passion. Her love for shopping led her to bead stores,
and her talent for putting them together in unique ways found her
her first admirers as she traveled on trains. It was then she
realized that she could be making money to buy her an extra day
in Europe. That extra day turned into a year, and
Elements/Jill Schwartz was born. You’ll no longer find her jewelry sold on the beaches of Mykonos or hawked at cafés in Amsterdam. Her company’s brands are now
sold in boutiques and major chains around the world. And while
her mixture of unusual vintage and modern materials has evolved
over the years, each piece is still unmistakably, inimitably “Jill.”