Our favorite subversive jewelry designer — designing jewelry such as human hair earrings, ear tips and gun pendants — Jules Kim of Bijules is having a trunk sale at Eva NYC this Thursday, so if your accessory repertoire is missing a snake nail ring, then this event’s a must-attend!

Bijules Nail Ring

Bijules Curved Bar Ring

And if you can’t attend, check out the Bijules website.

Check out this dramatic wide cuff from Yves Saint Laurent. The fingerprint embossing, while showstopping, makes one wonder whose finger was used to impress the pattern. At any rate, I just hope it was clean.

Available at Net-a-Porter, $795

Blake Lively’s reppin’ Chanel‘s new line of Mademoiselle bags in a fab new ad campaign which features her accessible beauty, youthfulness (she IS young, duh) and THE COVETABLE Mademoiselle BAG! With sensually curved structure, the classic chain strap and discrete size, it packs a punch in the way only Chanel can.

Amore Necklace

The Amore Necklace from Aitch of London is a unique take on the traditional heart pendant. From multiple silver chains hangs a silver heart with the word “love” engraved in different languages, showing the recipient you’re caring and fashion forward this Valentine’s Day. We, personally, would like to take a trip to every country where the languages stamped on the necklace are spoken, but that’s just us.

185 pounds sterling, available here.

We just died and went to literary heaven! Oh, hello, Wordsworth, Dante, Shakespeare and friends! You know we love anything literary. And anything literary and fashionable? Mon Dieu. We’re down for the count at that point.

Check out our latest obsession: Littlefly Literary Jewelry from Jeremy May. He creates one-of-a-kind rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets by laminating hundreds of pages from books together, coating them with a glossy finish and placing them back in the book from whence the pages came. Truly breathtaking!

Jeremy May, you’ve got some new stalkers on your hands. 

You can commission your own masterpiece by contacting Jeremy May here.

Rachel Roy, she of multiple clothing lines and famous friends, has designed a burlap tote for Unicef, the proceeds of which go to the ten millions children affected by the recent Pakistan floods.

Each tote costs $20, and all of it goes to Unicef (so no hefty charity administration costs here!). A cool part of the design: the back is signed by Roy’s famous friends like Oprah, Michael Kors, Andre Leon Tally, DVF and more!

Available at Shopbop.com, $20

Somewhat subversive and handmade, Cyberoptix ties and ascots rep the new generation of tie-wearers, with ties that both hearken back and look forward with hand-silkscreened vintage and modern patterns. Taking inspiration from science, pop culture, technology and more, these ties come in both standard and skinny widths. The perfect gift for the modern dandy in your life!

Soyuz Cosmonaut Tie

Detroit Blueprint Tie

Science Affair Microscope Tie

Nautilus Shell Tie

This and much, much more available at Cyberoptix Tie Lab.

You know that annoying attached-at-the-hip couple? Well, here’s a gift sure to please them and you for your clever choice. The Smitten Mitten allows a couple to hold hands while staying warm. (Cue the “awwwwwww.”)

It comes in various prints and patterns such as the Poinsettia Smitten, Rudolph Smitten and seasonless Smittens, too, for year-round hand-warming love!

Available on the Smitten Mitten by Love Driven Etsy Shop

We’re back! After a long weekend full of tryptophan (which scientifically prevents you from blogging), we’ve decided that the best segue from family togetherness is S&M-light  accessories. Gabriella Marina Gonzalez‘s S/S 2011 collection–creatively titled The Cyclops Apprentice–consists of shoes, body jewelry, waist packs and masks that evoke a modern warrior feel that hearkens back to another, darker, era.

Her current collection is available in London at Machine-A, a boutique and gallery.

One of our favorite sites, The Vitrine, carries rope jewelry by Tanya Aguiniga, a designer inspired by the colors of Tijuana’s fruit and candy vendors (the colors of the fruit and candy, not of the vendors) and the clean lines of Southern California freeways.

Made of cotton rope dip dyed in green and styled in Turk’s head knot, the bracelets adds a gypset vibe to an outfit, and the unexpected use of rope as material for jewelry has us already planning on adding these bracelets to vacay outfits. Rope on!

Dipped Rope Knot Bracelet, $75 at The Vitrine

Fashion has been nodding to Mad Men with form-fitting skirts, sweaters and curve celebration galore. If tight pencil skirts aren’t de rigueur for you, then try cat-eye sunglasses–the shape of the moment.

Linda Farrow makes an ah-ma-zing pair of over-sized snakeskin pair of sunglasses that combine a retro shape with modern flair.

Linda Farrow Luxe Sunglasses, $640 at Net-a-Porter