Women's Bracelets & Bangles

The tinkling of many metal bracelets following the movement of women’s body, the beauty of bangles decorating arms with style and color, the preciousness of fine materials and the most sophisticated design. Is there anything better than the brand-new and gorgeous fashion bracelets and bangles?

The real meaning of bracelet: lucky amulet and accessory embellishing every outfit

Bracelets and bangles are one of the most beautiful fashion jewels ever created by the imaginative mind of designers and jewelers. This precious and decorative object made women feel more beautiful since ancient times, when they used it as magical amulet to bring good luck and as symbol representing various meanings.

Ancient Romans used clinking bracelets to be protected from spirits and to wish good luck to who received them as a gift. And it’s precisely this custom that gives birth to charms bracelets, which combine golden or silvered metal chains with many pendants and various types of symbols, like those with coins and colored gemstones by Oscar De La Renta or those with lucky charms and religious symbols by Dolce & Gabbana.

Giving a bracelet could be a love token. Then are perfect the heart-shaped ones proposed by Chopard. For express passionate love, there are instead the shining rhinestones on snake wrapping the arms in a very sensual way as seen in the Saint Laurent’s fashion show. Romantic animals, symbols of love, peace and hope for Rodarte, which proposes bangles and arm bracelets representing flying doves and olive branches.

Even logo becomes a symbol, which tells who you are and what you like through the emblem of your favorite brand. This year logo decorates many bracelets, like the Roberto Cavalli’s maxi chain sigil-style bracelet, the steel cuff bracelet with Alexander McQueen’s logo and rigid and golden bangles by Balmain. Chanel also uses its iconic monogram to decorate the wide braided-effect golden metal bracelets, made more precious by crystals.

Contemporary allure for bracelets inspired by vintage fashion

Vintage trend also influences fashion jewellery and the best designers search in the past the most beautiful lines and inspirations for their bracelet collections:

• Ancient Rome mythological motifs on mother-of-pearl and colored glass medallions decorating the bracelets by Michelangelo
• From the Middle Ages come the slave bracelets, covering the hand and becoming a ring, designed by Alessandro Michele for Gucci.

• Floral decorations and intricate patterns for Dolce & Gabbana, inspired by the Sicilian Baroque
• Burberry finds its source of inspiration in the beautiful decorations of Rococo, interpreted in a modern key through lacquering and rhinestones
• 19th-century-Victorian-style for the woven metal wire bracelets similar to intricate lace created by Marc Jacobs
• Artistic inspiration for Schiapparelli's rigid resin bangles, inspired by the Surrealist period of Salvador Dalì
• Late-70s-Punk-style for the rigid and wide studded cuff bracelets proposed by Prada and those with skulls by Alexander McQueen

Even the more distant and exotic lands influence the trendiest designers and ethnic style inspires many bracelets and bangles, which are worn strictly one over the other to completely cover the arms. Like the Saint Laurent's Navajo-style bangles with turquoises, the charms bracelets with hippy bells and tassels designed by Chloé, the shell bracelets inspired by tropical islands of Etro or the embossed metal bracelets inspired by Far East designed by Gucci.

Innovative and unusual materials for the most cutting-edge bracelets

One of the feature of modern jewels is experimentation on materials and shapes, which become even more sculptural.

Among the most unusual materials is wood, used by Ports 1961 for its natural shaded or colored maxi bangles, while among the most technological ones there is plexiglass, used by Giorgio Armani for its beautiful rigid bangles inspired by aquatic world. Even resin, the main feature of the creations by Oro 24, is a material suitable for many experiments and creative ideas.

Leather has a rock soul and that’s why it’s loved by feisty and unconventional women. With this fine material, Tod’s makes simple woven multi-colored bracelets, while Givenchy creates cuff models decorated with padlocks and metal studs.

Metal, commonly used to make many jewels, now is interpreted in a decidedly modern key. Burberry presents on catwalk rigid gold-colored cuff bracelets with drop-shaped pearl pendants, while Bellini combines golden, silvered and coppery metals in its woven bracelets and Athomie decorates its silver bangles with contrasting colored metal beads.

Colored gemstones and crystals, which give a touch of vitality to female look, become maxi for Giambattista Valli and are instead natural and rough for Marc Jacobs.