January 12, 2021
Slice as in diamond slices. And life as in “life as we know it” at this precise moment and the possibilities, however elusive, of finding clarity in chaos, a glimmer of hope as an engulfing fog blows out to sea.
Reflections, the latest collection from Lori Friedman of Loriann Jewelry, was born of the quarantine era, which the designer has spent at her home in Westport, Conn. Her previous collections have embraced themes that express her positive and celebratory outlook on life. Reflections plays to a similar idea, that of rediscovering joy, and finding your inner light.
“This collection is one of my most meaningful to date, coming out of a year filled with many challenges,” Friedman says. Her husband was ill for two months in winter and early spring of 2020, a mystery occurrence that predated the many official coronavirus cases being reported in Connecticut that spring but that was likely an undiagnosed instance of COVID-19.