Today, white pendants provide a more finished interpretation.
At Flos, he admired the Aim suspension lamp by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, which has black or white pendants dangling from long, looping cords.
In yellow, red or blue, they are $40 each at Urban Outfitters. 4. The Dumpling, a plastic-coated white paper pendant light by Butter, a Brooklyn company, is $65 at Mxyplyzyk, 125 Greenwich Avenue (13th Street). 5. A whimsical handmade iron switch plate, colorfully painted by Piper Strong, a Vermont artist, is $30; (802) 563-3321 or www.strongmetalworks.com 6.
They included Shaun Leane's tusk-shaped emerald earrings, Solange Azagury-Partridge's Mozambique pear-shaped ruby earrings and Stephen Webster's complex emerald and white-gold pendant.
She wore a white-gold pendant that looked a bit like a sommelier's cup and a ring that had a long rectangular silver piece affixed to it, like stylized brass knuckles.
And Pasquale Bruni is selling a white-gold pendant with pink rhodolite stones on a pink silk cord ($850 ,at 212-218-7858), with some proceeds helping the charity Children's Action Network.
At five feet five, with hazel eyes, short white hair, and gaps between her front teeth, and wearing a black-and-white "OWS" T-shirt, gray shorts, pink-and-white running shoes, and a jade pendant around her neck on a piece of speaker wire, she can pass untouched through chaos.
One of the young men from O.W.S. — the one who said they would never leave — was wearing a dark suit jacket, a white shirt, a burgundy tie, a bolo string tie, a beaded Indian necklace, and a silver pendant.
Her style is still on the edge: one recent morning she wore a white shirt with shorn sleeves (she cut them off herself), black pants and a gold razor-blade pendant.
