Addicted To Accessories

Chunky bangles, comically enormous statement necklaces, brilliant bags, glittery heels. All accessories, all the time. And that's just before 9am. I'm Tamar Anitai, and I'm the founder of FashionBinge, a New York fashion, style and shopping blog founded in 2006. I live in Brooklyn, I work for MTV, and I firmly believe that "cat person" has no negative connotations. Contact me and follow me on Twitter, kay?

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More killer shit from K/LLER Collection -- a black diamond made from a brass cast of a Swarovski crystal. Layer, love, repeat.

+ $90, K/LLER Collection, Courtshop.com

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I'm cray-cray for coral and bangles, so this very deco Elva Fields for C. Wonder bangle tastes almost (but not quite) as good and chocolate and peanut butter. Well, let's be honest. It probably tastes like resin and metal. But it's still highly, highly palatable.

+ $48, Elva Fields for C. Wonder

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Hilarious rotary kitsch from the Yazbukey sisters.

They're sold out, but why not give them a ring (get it??) and ask nicely? You never know.

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Flash shopping sites are a MAJOR source of danger for me. Especially Fab.com, which is a design pop-up site devoted to cool and quirky housewares and, occasionally, jewelry, like this necklace by Cuban designer Marañón. The Fab sale is ovah, but you can buy Marañón here.

+ $65, Marañón, Maranonjewels.com

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Macrame-ing pretty pieces of quartz to create a pretty necklace is a really good idea, IMHO. Also, can we bring back macrame, post haste?

+ $68, Kin of Kin, Marymeyerclothing.com

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Yes to EVERYTHING that's happening on this Lizzie Fortunato ring. All of it.

+ $430, Lizzie Fortunato, Charmandchain.com

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Pamela Love's wheel necklace is the "Proud Mary" of statement necklaces. That 1.5" pendant is no joke.

+ $345, Pamela Love, Creatures Of Comfort

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Just got these rad, raw, rough crystal stud earrings from Etsy seller Dans Le Vent, and they're all up in my earlobes.They go with everything AND -- HIYEEE -- they were just $12. Crystals are the new diamonds. Or something.

+ $12, Danslevent.Etsy.com

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My friend Katie deGuzman, who's a lovely and talented jewelry designer, recently launched her own jewelry collection with fellow designer Michael Miller. It's called K/LLER, and within you'll find earthy, intriguing animal-inspired treasures mixed with metals. They're delicate yet macabre. But not in a Ke$ha way. Dear God no. More like Stevie Nicks.

Take, for example, these porcupine quill earrings. The brass flourishes say "I MIGHT be a lady," while the quills are like "BUT I WILL cut a bitch if I have to."

+ $140, K/LLER Collection/ Needsupply.com

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I checked out LOFT's Spring 2012 preview last night, and WOAH those primary-colored accessories are doing everything right, especially paired with basic grey and beige neutrals. My favorite pieces: this wood and resin ring with a little jewel popping up to say hello. Only a basic Judeo-Christian sense of fear and guilt kept me from walking off with it.

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Usually I'm very much not a "pearl girl" or a sweater girl. Don't you have to wear pink fuzzy sweaters and grey skirts to wear pearls? Okay, that's stereotypical and antiquated, but still. It's hard for me to contemplate wearing pearls in a non Doris Day kind of way. I feel like I swear too much to wear pearls. Cue the exception: Robindira Unsworth's strand of silver pearls wrapped in black. Perfect way to offset the (my) prim perception of pearls. Plus, at 40 inches, it's the perfect layering piece.

+ $238, Robindira Unsworth

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More colorful, stackable mixed material bracelets by Devora Libin. Rubber, metal, Swarovski crystal. Skulls and skulls and racks and racks and stacks and stacks on stacks. (Am I the only YC fan around here? No? Yeah? No?)

By the way, save 15% with promo code "FW2011" through Sunday, October 16.

+ $80, Devora Libin

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By the way, to celebrate the birth of Addicted To Accessories, I've teamed with up Ippolita Jewelry to give away this gorgeous black resin and mother of pearl bracelet. Here's how to enter.

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HOW HAVE I LIVED WITHOUT A HIPPOPOTAMUS DOUBLE RING? By the way, I just learned that "hippopotamus" is Greek for "river horse." Cool, right? Especially since I love horses. Especially a stylish horse.

+ $85, Haoshi Design, Taigan.com

PS: While INTENSELY researching hippos for this post, I discovered, via the magic of auto-fill/ predictive text in Firefox's search bar, that the word hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia exists. From what I can deduce, it basically exists just to be an asshole. I had no idea either! #learning

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Bijules Pearl Basin Bar Ring. So simple, so sick. The pearls come in pink, green, black, cream, and natural, as pearls do. You can specify natural or colored, but you don't get to pick which color pearl you get, just like you don't know what kind of pearl you'll get when you crack open an oyster, do you? (Fuck. You might not even GET a pearl at all.) It's their way of making you deal with the unknown.

+ $329, Bijules, Bijulesnyc.com

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You could probably wear Fenton's 80s-inspired Flo Bib every day for the rest of your life and not notice every little detail. Fenton designer Dana Lorenz clearly creates with my "more is more" life's mantra in mind, which is probably why Fenton is one of my favorite jewelry brands. Which is also probably why this is the Times Square of necklaces, minus the pee smell and gross hot dogs. And Ohhhhh to be let loose in Charmandchain's warehouse. The undo-able damage I could do.

+ $850, Fenton, Charmandchain.com

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Mawi's gold skull and gem bangle greatly appeals to the fancy piratess in me.

+ $626, Mawi.co.uk