Chapter I · From Kate
I’ll admit it. I love to be the first to discover something truly unique.
I have a weakness for the extraordinary — and an instinct for things that feel entirely new. The pieces I treasure most are never the obvious choices. They’re the discoveries you almost want to keep to yourself.
When Caron Bluestone, founder of Caravan of Stones, asked me to create a capsule collection of her incredible bracelets inspired by the Colour Seasons, I was captivated. I had never seen ANYTHING quite like them: four, five, even seven carats of natural diamonds strung on colourful thread. Colour and diamonds. What could be better?
It felt like destiny…
My family has been in the jewellery business for decades, and I’ve always believed that fine jewellery is meant to be lived in, not saved for a special occasion. I first learned about Colour Analysis as a little girl, watching my own mother, a “Pink Cadillac Driving” Mary Kay lady, help her clients choose the right colours based on the Four Season system.
Your best colour is deeply personal.
Your best colours aren’t arbitrary. They are deeply connected to the unique combination of features that makes you you.
As a Seasonal Colour Analyst, I know that finding someone’s exact Colour Season requires extreme precision. I analyse the specific characteristics that make each person unique:
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01Skin undertone
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02Skin luminosity
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03Depth & lightness
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04Natural hair colour
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05Eye colour
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06Eye pattern
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07Overall contrast
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08How all of the features respond to colour
Together, they reveal a person’s precise season — and, within it, her power colours: the colours that bring out her radiance and harmonise perfectly with her features. When she wears them, she looks and feels her best. Her most confident.
I love the idea of translating that into these bracelets. If colour can be such a personal expression of who you are, what could be more personal than wearing one of your power colours combined with sparkly diamonds every day?
For this collection, I chose the colours I covet most from each season, created my favourite seasonal stacks, and selected three pieces that have a particularly personal meaning to me.
Your power colour. Your sparkle. Your talisman.
— Kate Solinsky Berenter