We’re Rockin’!
ISN’T “DIFFERENT” ALWAYS IN? Of course it is, and what’s in also has to be recognizable as the thing, otherwise how could anyone tell how with it you were? The irony being that nothing’s different for all that long once whatever it is catches on and everybody’s into it. I’m thinking of a certain style of bracelet that quickly became ubiquitous in the late 1980s . . . tennis, anyone? What’s dear to my heart about our featured Trend this issue (page 38) is that the something different is stone, and not just any stone, either: scenics, drusies, fossils, metallics, neutrals, rainbows, graphics . . . what’s hot is a virtual kaleidoscope of colors, patterns, and textures. The golden spikes in rutilated quartz, the broad brushstrokes and polka dots of Montana…
