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Presley Oldham Closes the Season With Old-Mine Diamonds and Decades-Old Crystals

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Designer Presley Oldham unveiled his spring/summer 2027 collection at a sunset gathering, marking the debut with pieces built from materials that carry their own histories. The collection pairs hand-carved gemstone pendants with deadstock 1950s Swarovski crystals, old-mine diamonds, and bicolor sapphires. Each material predates the piece it now belongs to by decades, giving the collection a sense of accumulation rather than novelty. The hour suited the work: a fading light for stones already carrying their own age.

With reporting from Surface.

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