my one
my one
Yves Saint Laurent’s Arty rings have been available for a while now. I usually don’t buy designer costume jewelry – often the quality is too low and the price is too high. I tend to wear gold jewellery I have designed myself. Nothing designery or fancy at all. But when I heard that YSL were discontinuing the Arty ring, I bought one and I love it. I have the blue one (because I love lapis lazuli and this reminded me of it) but there are many colours and each one is a slightly different shape.
Interpretations and inspirations from these pieces are readily available if you don’t want to buy the real thing. Watch out for fakes masquerading as the real thing though and if you do buy a cheaper version online make extra sure it does not look cheap and tacky as even the real thing treads a very fine line between stunning and sleazy. They can be worn with the stone facing either way and many people wear more than one at the same time.
Here are some interpretations of this design, from the Swedish site Cocoo (which also posts internationally).
Here is a UK site which does very good ones for £4 each
Dollybowbow also sell them for £12 each
Sites selling replicas are often sold out or closed down by YSL so if you want one, be quick. Also, the YSL one is becoming harder to find as they are not made anymore so if you really want one, it may be prudent to get one sooner rather than later.
