Yearly Archives: 2025

……………….Jac and I LOVED the summer……..SPRING. AUTUMN, and WINTER TOO……but especially the summer days and nights……We rented a house on Fire Island for many years….It was a great escape from the city heat…..This was before we moved to CT, and bought a home on the Long Island Sound……The picture is of us on the dock at F.I…..We had just finished dinner, and we stopped to see the sun set on our way back to the house which was on the ocean…with a wonderful pool!….We loved to sit on our deck or in the hot tub, and Jac would point out all of the constellations to me….I was always amazed at how much she knew about everything!……Now, that summer is here….I look back and remember, and miss those cherished times we had together.

…………NEVER IN MY LIFE TIME…….has INDEPENDENCE DAY……had more MEANING!!!!…….When it seems our liberties are being taken away every second of every day…..we must remember …..THIS TOO WILL PASS!……When this administration is nothing more than a horrible memory, and the tyranny we are forced to live under, because gullible people believed the lies that were fed to them….is finished…we will prevail!…It is unfathomable to me that this has taken place in such a short time in this great country….It just glaringly proves how fragile the links to democracy are…..It only took one monster of a man, and his despicable, greedy, power hungry followers to tare this country apart…..Does this remind you of anyone else in history….I guess history does repeat itself!…….However….I have faith that TRUTH and HONOR will return….and….until that day arrives WE ALL MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER to hold firm, because we are on the right side of history…..and GOOD always wins over evil!……..HAPPY 4th of JULY to all of the PATRIOTS of this great nation!

…………..For my Anne Klein Resort 1991 Collection I designed a fabulous group of “FISH JEWELRY”……..I remember the day Jac and I were away on the Caribbean Island of BARBUDA….The hotel we stayed at was….”The K Club”. It was owned by Mariuccia Mandelli and her husband Aldo Pinto. Mariuccia was a famous Italian fashion designer, and Jac walked her runway many times…..Wherever I traveled I always had a very small sketch book and a pen to jot down inspirations that might come to me……As I was standing in the water. almost to my knees, a school of fish kept swimming around me. I stood perfectly still and was mesmerized by them…..When I got back to my lounge chair and laid down…my mind started to wander….and then it came to me….FISH JEWELRY…..I feverously started to draw. When I got home from the trip I continued to develop my ideas until I was happy with all of it! The idea of Fish Jewelry became an assortment of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and even BELTS, in a variety of sizes and materials from all metal in silver and gold with color eyes on both sides….to clear resin fish with metal heads and a bottom tail fin….strung together with a fine gold chain……..The group was an instant hit with the buyers, and all of the many women who saw them, and purchased them from jewelry cases in all of the major stores and fine boutiques…..The models are wearing two draped cotton jersey dresses….perfect for traveling to exotic places……Years later I did some of the “fish pieces” for QVC…..The hanging fish pendant sold out immediately and kept reordering until the day I left QVC……It has become a TRUE COLLECTORS PIECE………So…….those of you who still own these unique one of a kind pieces…..take good care of them, and they will last a long long time!

……………….NAUTICAL INFLUENCES………..have existed in fashion for centuries!…..and are still as strong as ever……….These two NAVY, WHITE & GOLD hand sewn sequin pieces, part of my AK RESORT 1991 COLLECTION….were classic shapes, but made a dramatic impression!…..The model to the left is wearing a silk/rayon/span knit tank with a striped sequin skirt….like the dress, it too had a gold sequin stripe at the hem…….Jac wore the skimmer dress, on the right, a few times, and loved wearing it….I gifted it to my dear friend…..Chantal……All of the jewelry and the gold mesh belt were made for me by my jewelry licensee…………..”SHIP AHOY!”

………………..”WHITE SILK”……….Creating simple clothes can be the most difficult thing to design…..I want them to be easy, and “simple”….but they still have to make a statement….or why buy them?…..Here are three examples of simple pieces that make a…..STATEMENT….At the left a Cadet silk slip dress and matching kimono coat………….and to the right a “chemise” dress, also in Cadet silk….with a cut in armhole to bare tanned shoulders and a front slit……..The fact that they are in PURE WHITE SILK is a statement in its’ self…..The fabulous, and BOLD clear acrylic jewelry added just the right touch of adornment and drama to such simple silhouettes……….Again, these were done for my Resort AK Collection in 1991……..It ALL could have been designed today!