- If I'm not feeling particularly great,
I know that if I put on some like intense diamond earrings
and just pour myself a glass of wine
then actually everything's quite fine.
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Hey, I'm Kat Graham
and welcome to "Precious Metals" with Marie Claire.
I am going to be taking you guys through
all of my favorite pieces that mean the most to me
that I've collected over the years.
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So, I'm going to start with a piece
that really means a lot to me.
I got this in Africa.
It looks like beads but it's actually rolled-up newspaper.
It just reminds me so much of the creativity
of the women in Africa and these really cool artisans
that are able to take really what might be something
that we'd all throw out and repurpose it
into something really beautiful.
Just found this, and I was looking for this forever,
is my mom's bracelet from the '80s.
My taste in jewelry is 3:00 a.m. at a house party
in the '80s somewhere in the Hollywood Hills
and Paul Abdul is there.
Those are the earrings I'm wearing. (laughs)
I love anything oversized and '80s,
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like this scrunchie bracelet from Completedworks.
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But it's not good for sound so I'm taking it off.
One of my favorite pieces that I collected,
I started getting into jewelry,
especially gold jewelry the most
when I became a fan of Schiaparelli.
A couple years ago I went to their show
and they gifted me these two hands
that actually hold each other, half black, half white.
And everything that also has been going on in the world,
I think it's really important
that we're all really connected
regardless of our race or religion.
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Jewelry actually hasn't been important to me
until this year.
I never really collected jewelry.
I was somebody who would maybe get a couple pieces
when I traveled.
It's a way to express yourself in a really fun way.
So, if you are somebody who loves a bunch of rings,
I love a bunch of rings, then you can do that.
And that's the statement piece.
So, it makes me feel more like myself.
It makes me feel like I'm the best version of myself.
And if I'm not feeling particularly great,
I know that if I put on like intense diamond earrings
and just pour myself a glass of wine
then actually everything's quite fine.
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So, one piece that I really, really love
is from Pagoda, gold necklace.
I just love it because it really represents the brand
which we're doing this thing called Being More You
and it's all about being your most authentic self.
And for me, I've been using especially gold jewelry
to be myself.
This is just jewelry that I've gotten
since going on quarantine.
This is not jewelry I've had my whole life.
This is like the past two months where I decided to explore
the '80s oversized gold earrings
that are out there and available.
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So I started collecting pieces because I was really bored
with some of the showroom styles
that a lot of jewelry designers will put in showroom houses
that they give to celebrities.
It just put me to sleep.
I don't like necessarily traditional jewelry.
I don't like oversized, opulent,
ridiculously expensive pieces.
That's not how I am.
That's not my style.
I don't relate to it.
In a lot of ways that almost resent it
because I grew up so poor,
the last thing I wanna do is start flaunting jewelry
that I don't even own.
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My Pagoda necklace I really, really love.
I layer it with this one too,
which is also fragile but, you know,
you're not breaking the bank.
I really love these two necklaces paired together
because they're both thin,
but they're both statement pieces, which is really great.
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I did an event at the children's hospital, like 2014,
with an organization called Children Mending Hearts
and we had a little bead party and all the kids got together
and we all made these really cool necklaces together.
And I've always kept this.
And it's definitely one of the ones
that mean the most to me.
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These were made by my grandma.
My grandma was always really, really into beading.
She made these, which are really spectacular.
And there's some of my favorite earrings.
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I saw this quote online that said,
it was like a Virgo quote that was like,
"I was sad and then I went online shopping
"and I feel better now."
I feel a little bummed out.
Obviously, I meditate and I talk to my friends
and I do everything but sometimes
a little jewelry goes a long way.
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Like jewelry just makes me feel fabulous.
Like, I love sickening clip on.
I just do.
I just can't get enough of it.
And I'm totally addicted to my jewelry.
I mean, I just, I'm obsessed.
I mean these are commas and I got them for myself
because I don't know how to use a period in a sentence.
Everything I write, if you are on text with me,
if you're on email with me,
or even if you're on the phone with me,
oh honey, it's a run-on sentence.
It's never over.
So, these commas are a great representation of me. (laughs)
Jewelry should be a representation of you.
And that's why I've been so obsessed with Piercing Pagoda
because they make sure that that's a part
of their selling point is that it should be there
to make you feel like yourself.
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Hope you guys are happy.
Thank you, Marie Claire, for having me.
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