It is usually hard for us to find a word to describe the fashion trend of American modern jewelry design. This is because the typical American life style contains too much and it usually shows us in different forms: casual or formal, boorish or noble, cynical or fashionable, while each life style needs jewelry to make their individuality stand out. Therefore, American modern jewellery designers have to show rich originalities in their works as a way to cater to people’s demands on diversification of various jewels.
Actually, in America, jewelry design and wearing has become a kind of culture. Designers concentrate on creative philosophy and the fully expression of artistic models. Wearers concentrate on jewellery that can show their individuality, spirit, their own interest and taste. Meanwhile, designers care much about the relationship between the wearers and society. Therefore, jewelry is an indispensable part of American culture.
America is considered as a nation without historical tradition. Compared with other nations, American designers are much bolder on the jewelry innovation. Many of them regard jewelry as a treasure that can be carried easily. However, in America, no one can doubt the great influence brought by jewelleries. Nowadays, some of the jewels even become the symbol of American culture.
Since it is a kind of culture, it may conflict with other culture inevitably. Here I will take Tiffany as an example. In the famous film namesake, a piece of Tiffany necklace is no longer an ordinary gift, but a symbol that can show different social backgrounds and status of the people in different classes. In the TV series Gossip Girl, Tiffany is quite popular in the upper class students. Meanwhile, it also can be used by the rich heroine as a powerful weapon to bribe her classmates.
These conflicts are also common in real life. From all these facts, we can find that Jewelry means a lot for a person living in American, whether he/she is a local American people or a foreigner. Jewelry is not only a kind of decoration any longer.
As a kind of culture, jewellery is more complicated than before, from which we can find out something that reflects society. In this way, we are able to understand the culture of America in a clearer and better way!
