Club Monaco necklaces add flair to classic wardrobe

A reliable way to add a little dazzle to classics -- a white shirt, little black dress, T-shirt and blazer -- is to punch them up with conversation-piece jewelry. This month, Club Monaco offers some affordable contenders: six eye-catching necklaces inspired by artist Alexander Calder.

Calder, an American sculptor who spent part of his childhood in Pasadena, is credited with inventing the mobile and crafted distinctive outdoor works as well as jewelry, which was the focus of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this spring. Calder, who died in 1976, set found objects -- beach glass, ceramic crockery -- in wire or alongside undulating metal pieces, to make necklaces and bracelets he gave to family and friends.

The Club Monaco collection mixes media such as colored Murano glass and wood set on gold-plated wire, and pieces range in price from $79 to $139 -- which buys a bib necklace piece that evokes the artist's mobiles with cabochon-cut Murano and a German glass teardrop.

It's a new spin on the fine art of accessorizing.

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-- Max Padilla

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