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New York Times Style Spring 2007
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The Pirates of Pendants
Why are men suddenly piling on jewelry?
Bob Morris Investigates
Devon Turnbull, a young designer who is part of a Manhattan
fashion collective called Nom de Guerre, is not what you’d call a
mama’s boy – but he does like wearing her pearls. A few years
ago, when she gave them to him, he had all 109 restrung onto
a gold-link chain that hangs below his waist, like something
between a prayer shawl and an overextended rosary. He took
up pearl wearing for complex spiritual reasons having to do with
Transcendental Meditation and a system of Vedic astrology
called Jyotish. “But I also just always liked pearls,” Turnbull
says.
At first his friends told him: “Oh, come on, you’re a straight guy.
You can’t go out wearing pearls like that.” His simple response,
“Why not?”
It would be hard to argue with that in this Beckhamesque
moment of masculine adornment. Ever since the bling bang, a
“why not?” kind of attitude has prevailed...
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