“Life Starts all over when it gets crisp in the Fall”
~ F. Scott Fitzger­ald

We have had an excit­ing few months trav­el­ing the coun­try and being asked to share our jew­el­ry with celebri­ty styl­ists to dress their clients. I am incred­i­bly grate­ful for the amaz­ing sup­port. Celebri­ties such as Hillary Scott of Lady Ante­bel­lum, Emi­ly Blunt, Kate Mara, and Lau­ra Van­der­voort and some real­ly tal­ent­ed styl­ists have all been a part of Chic to Chic grac­ing the Red Car­pets this year. In cel­e­bra­tion of a new sea­son, I want­ed to take an oppor­tu­ni­ty share the high­lights with you, along with some of their favorite pieces.

With styl­ist Tara Swen­nen

With styl­ist Mic­ah Mar­cus

With styl­ist Karen Raphael

Wish­ing you a fab­u­lous Octo­ber,

Beth

You may remem­ber last year we had the incred­i­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty of bring­ing our pri­vate col­lec­tion to Jill Zarin’s Sec­ond Annu­al Lux­u­ry Ladies lun­cheon at her spec­tac­u­lar home in Southamp­ton.

Dur­ing our time at the event, we had such an over­whelm­ing response to our col­lec­tion and felt such a con­nec­tion to Jill and her fam­i­ly, that we decid­ed to part­ner with her and her team again this year after being invit­ed back. We were hon­ored to be a part of this event for a great cause ben­e­fit­ting the Samuel Wax­man Can­cer Research Foun­da­tion. The event was filled with pos­i­tive ener­gy, good vibes and a fab­u­lous group of peo­ple.

Jill Zarin and I

The Chic to Chic Pri­vate Col­lec­tion

Pat­ti Stanger, Jill Zarin, Avi­va Dresh­er, Luann De Lesseps, Cyn­thia Barshop, Dorin­da Med­ley.

Beth Miller & Dorin­da Med­ley

Beth Miller, Pat­ti Stanger, Ally Zarin

One of the orig­i­nal Real House­wives of New York, Jill Zarin is a cre­ative and tal­ent­ed busi­ness­woman. Since her time on the show, she has launched her own brand, which includes Jill Zarin Home – bed­ding, Squeeze Cou­ture – shapewear and Jill Zarin Jew­el­ry. She also co-wrote her first book, Secrets of a Jew­ish Moth­er with her mom and sis­ter, and is cur­rent­ly film­ing an upcom­ing movie by Eric Red. As an actress, writer, entre­pre­neur, phil­an­thropist, wife and moth­er, I find her to be an inspi­ra­tion for all that she’s accom­plished. I was thrilled to have a chance to ask Jill a few ques­tions ear­li­er this month to bet­ter under­stand what moti­vates her and how she does it all!

Jill Zarin

Let’s start with the Lux­u­ry Ladies lun­cheon. It is such an incred­i­ble event, ben­e­fit­ting the Samuel Wax­man Can­cer Research Foun­da­tion, what is your goal with this event, and what inspired you to con­ceive it three years ago?

I love par­ties and events, espe­cial­ly out in the Hamp­tons. A few sum­mers back I was think­ing about how there was a lack of events real­ly tar­get­ed at the female con­sumer, which sparked the cre­ation of my Ladies Lun­cheon. Since there was such high demand at my first two events from men want­i­ng to come, we expand­ed it to include a “Man cave” this year for Bob­by and his friends.

Can you talk about land­ing your role on Real House­wives of New York and tell us a bit about the inter­view process?

It’s quite sim­ple actu­al­ly. There was a pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny that hired interns to scope out the socialites in the Hamp­tons. One of them saw me in a mag­a­zine and before you know it, I received a voice­mail on my home answer­ing machine ask­ing me if I want­ed to inter­view and do a home video of my fam­i­ly to send along to the show. At the time, the show was to be called “Man­hat­tan Moms.” I was cho­sen, and before I knew it the show became The Real House­wives of New York City. I still have that mes­sage on my old answer­ing machine some­where in stor­age!

You’ve recent­ly been film­ing in New Orleans for Eric Red’s new movie, can you tell us about your role and when the movie is launch­ing?

Yes! I am so excit­ed! I was there for two weeks film­ing for the movie. I was such a nat­ur­al that the pro­duc­er actu­al­ly cre­at­ed more scenes for me in the movie! It was so much fun film­ing with my friend Kel­ly Ruther­ford.

What do you like most about your act­ing pro­fes­sion?

I love being “on set” and hav­ing my own trail­er. It is so thrilling. I enjoy push­ing myself and con­stant­ly try­ing new things. In act­ing, you have to become the char­ac­ter that you are play­ing which some­times can be a chal­lenge, but I love a chal­lenge.

What do you like least?

Being away from my fam­i­ly and Gin­ger!

Your first book is now on it’s third print­ing and has been trans­lat­ed for the Chi­nese, Russ­ian and Japan­ese mar­kets, which is amaz­ing! Tell us what inspired you to write this book in part­ner­ship with your moth­er and sis­ter?

My whole life my sis­ter and I have tried to live our lives by my moth­er Gloria’s advice. I want­ed to tell our sto­ry and phi­los­o­phy and share how things can be rel­e­vant and passed on from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion.

In your opin­ion, what was the most dif­fi­cult part of the writ­ing process?

Remem­ber­ing every­thing! I think it is also hard to share three peo­ples per­spec­tive in one book, but we man­aged a way where the goal and feel­ing was flu­id.

You have paved your own path to suc­cess in a world where so many oth­ers have failed, what is your for­mu­la for suc­cess?

You can­not be afraid to try. Sure, there have been things that I have failed at, but there are more things I have suc­ceed­ed at because I keep try­ing. I always tell younger girls to make a busi­ness plan, even for the lit­tlest things.

Out of all of the work you’ve done, what are you most proud of?

I don’t think there is one spe­cif­ic thing I am proud of. I am proud of the fam­i­ly that I am sur­round­ed with and the con­stant love and sup­port I get from my Bob­by.

What do you do to relax?

I love being out in the Hamp­tons. It total­ly calms me. I am an avid ten­nis play­er. I have pret­ty mean serve.

If you could go back in time and do any­thing dif­fer­ent­ly, what (if any­thing) would it be?

This is a hard ques­tion. I prob­a­bly would not have let what was hap­pen­ing on house­wives effect my per­son­al life so much. I real­ly gave my all and became so invest­ed in the show and took things per­son­al­ly.

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Hap­py Sum­mer Friends!

After a long win­ter, I am so excit­ed that this time of year has arrived where we can shed some lay­ers and enjoy longer days.

We have been trav­el­ing a great deal in an effort keep our pulse on new and upcom­ing trends, and one thing we’ve been see­ing a lot of are beau­ti­ful blues in both the fash­ion and jew­el­ry worlds. Blue hap­pens to be my favorite col­or for gems, in par­tic­u­lar when it comes to labradorite, sap­phires and opals.

1. The bohemi­an chic trend is here in a big way this year. These blue topaz, coat­ed blue crys­tal, apatite & sil­ver pyrite ear­rings set in 14k gold plate over ster­ling sil­ver, would fin­ish off any look per­fect­ly. Gor­geous col­or, sim­ple design with just enough whim­sy for sum­mer.

2. These boul­der opal & dia­mond ear­rings set in 14k gold are the per­fect state­ment ear­rings to add to an all white sum­mer look. They can be dressed up or down and are the per­fect acces­so­ry to trav­el with. I con­sid­er these a wardrobe sta­ple.

3. The col­or of the opal in this ring is beyond stun­ning – it instant­ly reminds me of the ocean. It is an Aus­tralian boul­der opal sur­round­ed by cham­pagne dia­monds, set in ster­ling sil­ver with rhodi­um and 18k gold.

4. This sliced boul­der opal neck­lace sur­round­ed by sliced dia­monds in 14k rose gold just says sum­mer to me. Pair it with a t-shirt, jeans and these Vic­to­ria Beck­ham mir­rored avi­a­tors and you have an effort­less­ly chic sum­mer­time look.

5. These ear­rings are very spe­cial. They are sin­gle cut blue sap­phire, dia­mond and ruby ear­rings set in ster­ling sil­ver with rhodi­um and 14k gold. They are the fin­ish­ing to touch to any spe­cial occa­sion.

Cheers to a beau­ti­ful sum­mer!

Beth

Hap­py 2015! This is our first blog post of the year and we are start­ing off strong as we share our most recent New York Fash­ion Week pre­sen­ta­tion event high­lights with you. Par­lay­ing off of the momen­tum from 2014, and hav­ing had such a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence dur­ing Boston Fash­ion Week the year before, we decid­ed it was time to take the Chic to Chic col­lec­tion to New York where we could share it with media and buy­ers on a nation­al lev­el. I was thrilled to have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to part­ner with the incred­i­bly tal­ent­ed {and dear friend of mine}, Fash­ion Design­er Michael DePaulo and styl­ist Ger­ard Val­le­cel­lo. Togeth­er we host­ed a live mod­el fash­ion instal­la­tion at the Carl­ton hotel and shared our Fall 2015 col­lec­tions with media, buy­ers and blog­gers. Pho­tos by The Stew­art of New York and Frank Roc­co Pho­tog­ra­phy.

It was the first time we showed at NYFW and I was real­ly excit­ed about part­ner­ing with Michael because his col­lec­tion works so beau­ti­ful­ly with our acces­sories. Michael’s dress­es were inspired by the cur­rent menswear trend which he refers to as his Black Tie col­lec­tion. The sil­hou­ettes were made up of metal­lic fab­rics, cus­tom geo­met­ric prints and rich silk gowns cov­ered in bead­ed armor. We showed our state­ment ear­rings, rings, and bracelets with his col­lec­tion, and pre­sent­ed sev­er­al pieces with sliced dia­monds, which we love for black tie because they add a great deal of ele­gant sparkle to a look.

We were excit­ed to have some celebri­ty guests attend­ing, who wore Chic to Chic jew­el­ry and Michael DePaulo dress­es in sup­port of our col­lec­tions dur­ing the event.

Jes­si­ca Pimentel from Orange is the New Black.

Lau­ra Gomez – Orange is the New Black

Zabry­na Gue­vara – Gotham

We were quite pleased with not only the turnout, but the response to Chic to Chic’s pieces worn by the mod­els that night. It was excit­ing on both a per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lev­el to see the col­lec­tion res­onate so strong­ly with every­one who attend­ed. I am so grate­ful to have had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to bring the brand to New York Fash­ion Week this year, and look for­ward to updat­ing you in the com­ing months on some excit­ing ven­tures that result from it. A huge thank you to Pam Cas­sidy, Amy Fish­er, Ger­ard Val­le­cel­lo and Michael DePaulo.

Cheers to 2015!

Beth

I hope your win­ter hol­i­days have been off to a great start. As we wrap up anoth­er incred­i­ble year at Chic to Chic, I want­ed to share our most recent project with you that took place last week in Los Ange­les.

We worked with DPA’s Nathalie Dubois’ gift­ing suite for the Peo­ple Mag­a­zine Awards. It was a two day event posi­tion­ing us to work with celebri­ties such as Jen­nifer Lopez and Mis­si Pyle {from Gone Girl} to select pieces of jew­el­ry from our Pri­vate Col­lec­tion for them­selves both on and off the red car­pet. It was such a sur­re­al expe­ri­ence — we met so many won­der­ful peo­ple and the response to our pri­vate col­lec­tion was over­whelm­ing!

Below are some of the tal­ent who stopped by to see our Pri­vate Col­lec­tion. All pho­tos by Sky Cheshure Pho­tog­ra­phy

Cathryn de Prume, starred in Wild, Murder101 and True Blood and San­tana Dempsey from The News­room.

Sebas­t­ian Roché from The Vam­pire Diaries and The Orig­i­nals, and Ben­jamin Stock­ham from About a Boy.

Pam and I with Gilles Mari­ni now play­ing in ABC’s hit dra­ma, Switched at Birth, and enter­ing his third sea­son with Devi­ous Maids with his wife Car­ole.

Sharon Stone, select­ed our pink sap­phire ear­rings with cham­pagne dia­monds set in oxi­dized sil­ver with ver­meil. They were stun­ning on her and we will be watch­ing for these on the red car­pet for sure! {pho­to by Chic to Chic LLC}

Mis­si Pyle {far right} from Gone Girl.

The fash­ion & enter­tain­ment edi­tors from Peo­ple Mag­a­zine were big fans of our col­lec­tion as well!

Kenya Sum­mer Moore from Real House­wives of Atlanta went for our white chal­cedony bracelet and it looked fab­u­lous on her!

I had the plea­sure of meet­ing Actor and Chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Casper Smart as well Sam Far­rar from Maroon 5.

And then not pic­tured is Jen­nifer Lopez. We had an incred­i­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet her and she select­ed our labradorite teardrop ear­rings sur­round­ed by rose­cut dia­monds set in oxi­dized ster­ling sil­ver. We are keep­ing our fin­gers crossed that they’ll make the red car­pet in 2015!

This was the last of our events for 2014 – these cou­pled with your loy­al­ty and sup­port, made it a ban­ner year for us at Chic to Chic! Thank you so much for being a part of our jour­ney – I wish you and your fam­i­lies much health, hap­pi­ness and pros­per­i­ty for the upcom­ing year and look for­ward to what 2015 has in store for all of us.

With grat­i­tude,

Beth

Wish­ing you an incred­i­ble Thanks­giv­ing,

Beth and the Chic to Chic team

Hap­py Octo­ber!

Fash­ion Week sea­son around the globe wrapped up this month, and while we’ve been trav­el­ing around the coun­try doing trunk shows, I’ve been find­ing some pock­ets of time to view the images from the Spring Sum­mer 2015 run­ways.  I often take my cues when buy­ing for the Chic to Chic Pri­vate Col­lec­tion from the lat­est fash­ion col­lec­tions & trends.  I was thrilled to see that state­ment ear­rings are going to be big for Spring | Sum­mer 2015 and that tas­sel details made an appear­ance at Lon­don Fash­ion week.  Below are some of our favorite Chic to Chic pieces paired with key looks from this season’s fash­ion shows around the world.

Row 1:  Chris­t­ian Dior | White agate drop ear­rings sur­round­ed by white dia­monds set in 14k rose gold

Row 2: Sliced dia­mond (8.45 cts) teardrop ear­rings sur­round­ed by cham­pagne pave dia­monds set in 14kt yel­low gold with ster­ling sil­ver | Burber­ry Pror­sum

Row 3: Nanette Lep­ore | Gray faceted nat­ur­al cham­pagne dia­mond (60.85 cts) 35 inch neck­lace wire wrapped with 14k white gold

Row 4: Pave and choco­late dia­mond (11.30cts) ear­rings with rhodi­um ster­ling sil­ver and 18k gold(1.65 gms) | Balen­ci­a­ga

Row 5: Dior  | Aus­tralian Boul­der Opal (13.12 ct) sur­round­ed by cham­pagne dia­monds set in ster­ling sil­ver with rhodi­um & 18kt gold

Row 6: Pave dia­mond tas­sel ear­rings set in oxi­dized ster­ling sil­ver | Preen

As you know from my pre­vi­ous posts it has been a busy sum­mer for Chic to Chic with trunk shows around the coun­try. It has been great for us to share the brand and our col­lec­tion, as well as meet new friends along the way in sev­er­al cities.

As I stopped to reflect on how tru­ly excit­ing this sum­mer has been, I real­ized how incred­i­bly grate­ful I am for our retail part­ners who car­ry pieces from our pri­vate col­lec­tion in their bou­tiques year-round. Chic to Chic Acces­sories are avail­able not only through our pri­vate show­room in Welles­ley, but also in 5 retail loca­tions. These part­ners are a result of some incred­i­ble rela­tion­ships we’ve built over the course of Chic to Chic’s growth and I can’t put into words how thank­ful I am to work with these amaz­ing bou­tiques and be a part of their over­all col­lec­tion. I am a firm believ­er in col­lab­o­ra­tion and part­ner­ing with oth­er brands, because, togeth­er we can do amaz­ing things.

For this month’s post I want­ed to share some insight into each of them with you.

Isoude is a lux­u­ry fash­ion brand based in New­port, Rhode Island, found­ed by design­er Kate Brier­ley. Inspired by the com­plex­i­ty of the female spir­it, from which the name is derived, Isoude offers the mod­ern woman an engag­ing expe­ri­ence of lux­u­ry.

Kate’s col­lec­tion is exquis­ite and our brands have great syn­er­gies togeth­er. We’ve been col­lab­o­rat­ing on trunk shows as well as offer­ing Chic to Chic acces­sories to her clients at her bou­tique in New­port RI since 2013, to help them com­plete their lux­u­ry looks.

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Luxe Bou­tiques is a new retail con­cept found­ed by vet­er­an fur­ri­er and lux­u­ry goods cura­tor Cecil Elrod. The retail con­cept is one that lever­ages the small square footage of the sundry shop into a high-end lux­u­ry goods bou­tique. Locat­ed in the lob­by of the Man­darin Ori­en­tal this bou­tique sells out­er­wear, fine ladies appar­el, and fash­ion acces­sories. We were thrilled to be asked to pro­vide Chic to Chic acces­sories for their clients ear­li­er this year and con­tin­ue to update our assort­ment there so that the col­lec­tion is ever-chang­ing for their sophis­ti­cat­ed clien­tele.

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A new one for us this sea­son. The Gold­en Door locat­ed in Escon­di­do, Cal­i­for­nia is a place very near and dear to me, that I have enjoyed for many years. It is a resort that has designed an expe­ri­ence to empow­er guests to repo­si­tion them­selves in their own lives by tend­ing to mind, body and spir­it.

After a suc­cess­ful trunk show ear­li­er this past June I had the hon­or of being asked to share a curat­ed selec­tion of Chic to Chic Pri­vate Col­lec­tion pieces for their on-line and on-site bou­tiques along with sev­en oth­er care­ful­ly select­ed jew­el­ry brands and design­ers.

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Locat­ed in Fal­mouth, MA, Maxwell & Co. is a pop­u­lar high-end curat­ed men’s & women’s fash­ion bou­tique on Cape Cod. In addi­tion to their pri­vate label col­lec­tion, they car­ry brands such as Dries Van Noten, Mali­par­mi and Hugo Boss.

We col­lab­o­rate for trunk shows, and I am grate­ful to have a pri­vate col­lec­tion assort­ment that we curate togeth­er for each sea­son. This will be our third year of work­ing togeth­er.

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Wil­low­brook Home — For­mer­ly Mary Stu­art Col­lec­tions, locat­ed in the heart of Lenox, MA. The bou­tique offers cash­mere, fra­grances, jew­el­ry, house­wares, baby cloth­ing and oth­er gifts by nation­al and local design­ers. We are excit­ed to be a part of their beau­ti­ful­ly curat­ed col­lec­tions.

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How lucky we are to be part­ner­ing with such an incred­i­ble group of bou­tiques! They are tru­ly cham­pi­oning our col­lec­tion and I am thank­ful every­day for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with each them. Thank you for being a part of my incred­i­ble jour­ney.

My best,

Beth

I hope that you’ve all had a won­der­ful sum­mer. It’s been a whirl­wind on our end, and as promised in my last blog post, I want­ed to update you on some of our trav­els. This week­end you may have noticed via our Face­book and Twit­ter  pages that we had the incred­i­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty of shar­ing our pri­vate col­lec­tion at Jill Zarin’s Sec­ond Annu­al Lux­u­ry Ladies lun­cheon at her spec­tac­u­lar home in Southamp­ton. Jill Zarin is a TV per­son­al­i­ty & for­mer Real House­wives of New York star, and she gath­ered some of her clos­est friends togeth­er for an event that sup­ports The Samuel Wax­man Can­cer Research Foun­da­tion.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by John­ny Nunez

We were thrilled with the excite­ment sur­round­ing our Chic To Chic Pri­vate Col­lec­tion and received an incred­i­ble response to our one of a kind pieces from an amaz­ing group of women. Here is a peek into our day.

Count­ess LuAnn and I. Our feath­er green agate & pavé dia­mond feath­er neck­lace com­plet­ed her look per­fect­ly.

The stun­ning Miss USA 2012 Nana Meri­wether loved our ama­zonite and baroque pearl bracelet.

Jill Zarin looked stun­ning in our choco­late and pave dia­mond ban­gle.

Pat­ti Stanger from Bravo’s The Mil­lion­aire Match­mak­er opt­ed to wear our sliced dia­mond and gold ban­gle.

Pam and I tak­ing a moment at the end of the event.

As you can see it was a spe­cial event held in a breath­tak­ing set­ting. We met some won­der­ful peo­ple and I couldn’t be more grate­ful for the oppor­tu­ni­ty. I can’t thank you enough for con­tin­u­ing to be a part of this excit­ing jour­ney with me!

Beth

It’s trunk show sea­son at Chic to Chic and we are so incred­i­bly grate­ful to have been invit­ed to share our pri­vate col­lec­tion in cities such as Escon­di­do, CA, Cape Cod, Chica­go, and the Hamp­tons over the com­ing weeks {we’ll be shar­ing details with you along the way}.

Giv­en that we take our show­room on the road, it is essen­tial for me to trav­el light when it comes to my per­son­al belong­ings. If I can avoid check­ing my lug­gage, I always do. Trav­el­ing the globe for my jew­el­ry buy­ing trips has been valu­able prac­tice and has helped me devel­op a for­mu­la for my trav­el style. I’ve found that well select­ed basics + ver­sa­tile acces­sories = an effort­less and pol­ished look while on the road. Below is what I’ll be tak­ing for seam­less day-to-night trav­el chic looks this sea­son.

1 | Burber­ry Brit stretch-cot­ton shirt – $295
2 | Chic to Chic baroque pearl ring with pave dia­monds set in oxi­dized ster­ling sil­ver – $3995
3 | Chic to Chic dog tag neck­lace with pave’ dia­monds set in oxi­dized ster­ling sil­ver with pyrite – $1895
4 | AG Stilt dis­tressed rolled cuff jeans – $215
5 | Givenchy Antig­o­na shop­ping bag – $1240
6 | Jim­my Choo Ali­na flat – $395 {on sale!}
7 | Chic to Chic cuff with dia­monds set in 14kt white gold with rhodi­um – $2695

1 | Hale Bob pur­ple print maxi dress – $235
2 | Chic to Chic white agate drop ear­rings sur­round­ed by white dia­monds set in 14k rose gold – $2695
3 | Stu­art Weitz­man Wovene­lope – $450
4 | Chic to Chic cuff with dia­monds set in 14kt white gold with rhodi­um – $2695
5 | Stu­art Weitz­man Off­set wedge – $355

Send­ing you my best from the road,

Beth