Record-high gold prices and a fatigue with so-called quiet luxury set the stage for a resurgence of statement silver pieces.
In the 1980s and ’90s, Robert Lee Morris’s sculptural silver earrings, breastplates and cuffs earned him certain trappings of fashion stardom: a yearslong collaboration with Donna Karan, a friendship with Karl Lagerfeld, exporting his namesake jewelry brand to Japan.
Mr. Morris’s Artwear store, known for its museum-like approach to displaying statement jewelry, became a destination in SoHo well before the Manhattan neighborhood turned into an open-air mall. The store, which closed in 1995, helped cement his reputation as a designer known for preferring size over subtlety and for bringing new attention
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