Diamonds are a boy's best friend?

PARIS: So, finally, it is for real. After centuries of neglect in the Western world, men have bonded once again with jewelry. This month's menswear season produced brooches, necklaces and bracelets as embellishment for suits and sportswear, suggesting that jewelry is creeping back into the straight male wardrobe.





We can thank rap "bling bling" and the soccer star David Beckham (who visited Buckingham Palace in diamond earrings to out-twinkle the royal chandeliers) for the concept that diamonds might be a boy's best friend. Even if the comic television persona of Ali G satirized jingle-jangle jewels, chains and rings are hitting main street jewelers.





For most guys, diamonds (except maybe on watches or as evening studs) still need a reality check. But when Giorgio Armani puts a bold flower pin on the lapel of a suit or Miuccia Prada teams a bead necklace with a collar and tie, you have to accept that male jewels are taking off. Prada also pinned a sailing boat brooch on a jacket and added more of the "tricks" or decorative gadgets that she launched last season. They have become a big hit dangling from belts and bags.





The general tendency is for a tribal vibe, suggesting all the ethnic, male nobility that goes with sharks' teeth, carved horn, shells and beadwork. But there is nothing ethnic about the clothes they partner, for those chunky necklaces tend to be worn with a leather jacket, polo shirt and jeans, rather than with Beckham's signature metrosexual sarong.





Fine jewelry is a more delicate choice. Gucci more or less invented the image of "medallion man" in the 1970s — Gucci brogues, slacks, open shirt and gold glittering in the chest hair. The snazzy house is now a jewelry purveyor, and in the Milan show (and in an Italian Bella Figura tradition) gilded necklaces hit the cleavage or bumped against a bared torso, while wrists clunked with gold bracelets. Dior Homme's style is subtle, mostly in silver and finely sculpted to create a sophisticated statement.Male branded jewelry is a relatively new phenomenon; the category was encouraged by showy watches. With all their technical "complications," timepieces have been key in making wrist jewelry acceptable.





Can the era of male decoration come back, 200 years after men adopted the suit as the daily uniform, leaving jewelry behind? Now that minimalism is beginning to look so last century, jazzing up with ornaments may become as feasible for men as it is for women.

Diamonds are a boy's best friend?
I guess its all up to what you like. if your into that whole gaudy diamonds everywhere thing, then thats you. Me? All i wear (other than clothes) when i go out or go to work is a movado. The plain black face with the silver stud at the "12" been wearing it for 4 years
Reply:Hmm
Reply:I don't know what you mean by your details. I don't understand. But yes I would have to agree that diamond earrings are most men's best friend because they are so obsessed with it. I hate people even guys and girls who can't seem to change their earrings from time to time. It's like wearing the same clothing everyday. As a result I like wearing a different earing every few months. I do wear the diamond stud at times but it gets old so that's why I changed it.
Reply:sorry, but what is the question? or is this just a statement...cuz if it is. its very well written,


some men still wear jewelry (piercings)