STATEMENT NECKLACE…its the look of the moment and if you’re looking for one click onto Bottica. They have style hunting teams all over the world searching in local markets, souks and country side villages looking for innovative jewellers to join their site. Currently they have 250 designers from 40 countries so they save you all the leg work. Here are pieces by Imogen Bellfield, Leda Otto, Gemma Redux and Gabriella Michelle Ramirez. www.bottica.com 

This was a softly woven 1930’s evening bag cut up by Glenn Spiro to create two spectacular silky golden cuffs with precious gem-set buckles. Glenn’s atelier on the top of Grafton Street is a hidden secret in London for fine jewellery. The big brands have been buying his jewel for years but now he makes himself open to clients for one off unique pieces. The range of styles that he pulls out in velvet lined boxes is staggering from an Elizabethan- looking long pendant in woven gold with thin chains flecked with precious stones to a row of ‘disco’ ball precious stone and diamond rings. I love the multi-hopped earrings , feather light, in titanium set with diamonds. www.ginternational.co.uk 

Don’t listen to the gloom and doom-mongers - 2012 is the Year of the Dragon - the luckiest in the Chinese Zodiac. The Dragon as a symbol in China is associated with good fortune, wisdom and longevity…and as we know nothing lasts as long as a diamond. I popped into the Boodles press day sparkling with diamond set dragon inspired pieces in their new Emperor suite collection. I love the earrings and bracelet in yellow and white brilliant- cut diamonds inspired by antique Oriental textiles and embroideries featuring dragons.  www.boodles.com    

WATCH THIS….cK watches and jewellery are celebrating their 15th anniversary with this quarter inch high domed case fabulous new Cogent watch. Lovely Lucinda from the Swatch Group came to show me the new pieces. I love the proportions and tough screws securing the case. But I’ve been a fan of the simplicity of design of cK for the last 15 years… both the watches such as the cK Minimal and cK City and the simple swirls of the metal torques and stacking rings give great value for style. www.calvinkleinwatches.org  

‘I love carved stones because every piece has its own personality’, designer Wendy Yue told me at a press morning at Annoushka. Wendy uses their natural imperfections in her design to make perfect looking exuberantly colourful imaginative pieces. Like this Fantasie Garden Party 7 ‘lucky charm’ carved coral , sapphire, garnet, diamond and malachite cuff. I like the wear she wears her statement pieces together too, as she says about precious coloured stones, ‘they are like shoes you can never have too many’. See her new Fantasie Colelction as www.annoushka.com    

I’m into brooches at the moment and I love these new arrivals at Mikimoto on Bond Street - to me they are like spring time branches laden with cherry-blossom pearls. www.mikimoto.co.uk

Out in the relentless rain this week end in London I was cheered by the brightly beaded torsos in the windows of Erickson Beamon on Elizabeth Street…a must if you’re going with the fluorescent trend this summer. www.ericksonbeamon.com

A little glimpse into the amazing millinery world of Philip Treacy who I was hanging out with yesterday afternoon … recently named as one of the most influential twenty designers in the world by Time Magazine he single handedly reignited the dying embers of the millinery industry creating a blaze of British hats around the world. Everything is hand made from the carved wooden blocks on which the hats are made to jaunty felt trilbys and this fantastic turreted Gothic castle headpiece pictured here inspired by the late stylist Isabella Blow. I love the little twists, spirals and frothy extras in amazing shapes which, if made in a precious fabric,  would make fabulous pieces of jewellery.  www.philiptreacy.co.uk 

Vogue was the first to link Elsa Schiaparelli’s work with art featuring her surrealist iconic pussy cat bow-knot sweater with the caption ‘a triumph of colour blending…an artistic masterpiece’. Schiaparelli herself said, ‘Dress designing is to me not a profession but an art’. And she used the same artistic avant -garde sensibility in her jewellery design. If you admire her work like I do you might like to know that Istdibs will be celebrating her work hosting an exclusive on-line sale starting on May 2nd of costume jewels, accessories and sunglasses sourced by 1stdibs dealer Vintage Luxury. This pine cone necklace and pair of ostrich clips and Harlequin brooch were made by Jean Schlumberger for Schiaparelli and the chicest Telephone compact in the world by Salvador Dali.  www.1stdibs.com   

After a fun Vertu/Vogue party at the end of the Vogue Festival last night - including  Rachel Zoe, Laura Bailey, Cara Delevigne, Eva Herzigova, Erin O’Connor etc. I stood with Solange Azagury Partridge planning jewellery events that we thought should be added to the line-up for the Vogue Festival next year…watch this space. Today in between listening to Diane von Furstenberg (rattling with her trade mark chunky gold  H Stern bracelets) talking about her fashion life and Holly Fulton in Fashion Question Time suitably sparkly with crystal embellishments on ears and neck, and all of us waiting for Tom Ford’s arrival, I spent the time spotting keen jewellery wearers. There were pearls studded onto brown felt turbans, guys with Swarovski crystal brooches attached to cravats, feathered headdresses and, in homage to Chanel, long C swinging necklaces. Fashion writer Jasmina, pictured at the top, looked wonderful in her fluorescent high street necklaces followed by  Catherine a Cambridge Librarian with an Elsa Peretti silver scent bottle around her neck. I loved that girls were making their own - like Naiko’s wood and gold long earrings and another keen fashionista who takes Top Shop necklaces and individualizes them with her own shells. And the Telegraph Magazine Fashion Editor Daniella Agnelli looked her chic self in multi layered fine gold and diamond necklaces. Vogue’s Fashion Director Lucinda Chambers, whose career we learnt yesterday during her talk began when she subbed her Art school years making perspex jewellery which she sold in Camden Lock, wore a pair of long sparklers from  Fenwicks. I also noticed Spanish designer Manuel de la Vega with a brooch pinned to his hat and cameo on his lapel accompanied by a friend wearing one of his glamorous crystal and pearl embellished long gowns. info.manueldelavega@gmail.com