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Justin Tranter, celebrity jewelry designer and lead singer of New York’s street glam band Semi Precious Weapons has launched Fetty, a precious rock ‘n roll lifestyle jewelry line made of oxidized silver & 14K gold pieces, available at stores across the country – Barneys New York, Barneys CO-OP, and Urban Outfitters.
Celebrities who have already worn and adored Fetty include Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen, Lipstick Jungle’s Lindsay Price (above), Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Kate Moss.
The Fetty line currently includes four distinct collections:
The Zodiac Collection: Gorgeous two-dimensional designer necklaces with multi-colored diamonds set around hand-engraved zodiac symbols on an oxidized sterling silver disc, hung on a 14K yellow gold faceted ball chain. All twelve zodiac signs are available.
The Braille Collection: A stunning series of bangles, necklaces, rings and earrings that feature multi-colored diamonds set in oxidized and polished sterling silver that reveal messages such as “Flawless,” “Mine,” “Try,” and “Kiss” using Standard American Braille.
The Femme Collection: Edgy yet feminine and fashionably flirtatious necklaces comprised of rose gold, yellow gold, sterling and diamonds. Signature pieces include the XL Love Bites necklace, an oxidized sterling silver heart with multi-colored diamonds and bite marks set on a 26 inch oxidized sterling silver chain.
The Fatale Collection: Fatale is comprised of five 14K gold and oxidized sterling silver charms inspired by darlings of NYC’s nightlife and fashion design sketches that include profiles of a female’s hands, heels, bust, side profile and a full body silhouette.
My favorite is the Zodiac collection, what is yours?
Image Credited to Fetty and Susan Blond Inc.
I read Grade-1 Braille. I was taught it by my partner so I can leave notes for her and never make the error of buying another piece of Fetty “Braille” jewelry.
Their “love” bracelet above does not read “love”. “Love” is, not unusually, completely messed up. Their bracelet says “&wo”. Thankfully, I didn’t get her this one! With the right spacing, it might me made to read “love”, but the spacing is a mess.
Their “luck” bracelet almost reads “luck” to a sighted person. The only way to actually make it read “luck” would be to add a space after the initial “l”.
What it actually says is “y [grade-2-symbol st] [grade-2-symbol sh]. So “ystsh”. Or, to put it another way, WTF?
This was my partner’s expression when I bought her the Fetty pendant supposedly saying “baby” (it actually says “bab reverse-k reverse-l”, incomprehensible in Grade 2 Braille).
The BFF pendant says “GDA” (that would be Guideline Daily Amount or Guide Dogs Association, I assume: the person who designed this clearly needs a guide dog).
From a Braille reader’s perspective, the only accurate pendant, on closer examination, is the one saying “precious”. This seems to be more by chance, in that every character in the word contains dots in both columns of the Braille cell. In retrospect, I should have bought this one.
The only way to make the pendant that is supposed to say “magnetic” read correctly would be to add a small space after the letter “a”.
The “try” pendant reads “tr [space] y”. The “try” *bracelet* pictured on their blog is correct.
I’ve also sat with a Braille chart trying to decipher their bracelets. This is a complete no-go area. It’s little more than random dots. It’s not coherent.
Considering how much they charge for these things they could at least get their Braille accurate! They might also get a few more customers. Maybe even me again.
There is a market for quality Braille jewelry. Few people are trying to fill this market. It would be great if these were accurate.
I would only buy from this range for looks. I do not suggest buying from this range for someone who actually reads Braille. You’ll only look stupid.