Italian Craftsmanship and Design from Antonini

Well-crafted gold, diamond highlights and colorful gems are among the hallmarks of new collections from Italian jewelry company, Antonini.

The company introduced its Extraordinaire collection during the Centurion 2011 jewelry show. The gold earrings, cocktail rings and necklaces are embellished with pavé diamonds and gemstones. There were two 18k white gold rings from the collection on

Italian Craftsmanship and Design from Antonini

Well-crafted gold, diamond highlights and colorful gems are among the hallmarks of new collections from Italian jewelry company, Antonini.

The company introduced its Extraordinaire collection during the Centurion 2011 jewelry show. The gold earrings, cocktail rings and necklaces are embellished with pavé diamonds and gemstones. There were two 18k white gold rings from the collection on

SAG Awards 2011: Winona Ryder

OMG, CRAZY EYES!!! Winona looks scared, y'all. Like she was just startled by a paparazoo and she might knife someone at any second. I'm afraid to review her look...

But I will, because I'm your fearless EWP.

While many people wore, and pulled off, white on the SAG Awards red carpet this year, Winona Ryder was not one of them. This dress's tulle just looks like someone ripped off a layer of her dress. And her hair and makeup are bonkers.

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SAG Awards 2011: Jane Krakowski

Jane Krakowski in Badgley Mischka
Oh, Jane, after I went on and on about how you did preggo glam right at the Globes, this is how you repay me? Why do you hate me? I was on your side!

But now we are clearly enemies, because this dress looks ridiculous.

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SAG Awards 2011: Claire Danes

Claire Danes in Louis Vuitton
I was all set to love this dress and call it my favorite look of the night (seriously, I am v. in love with the cascading flowers) but then I saw Claire tug on it. And then she did again. And again. People, if you are going strapless, you are NOT ALLOWED TO TUG ON IT ALL NIGHT. Nothing makes you look stupider than pulling up your strapless dress all night. If you're doing that, it doesn't fit right. It was very disappointing to see her struggling with holding it up all night. Also disappointing? That lipstick choice. Ick.

B+

SAG Awards 2011: Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian in Marchesa
Wowza, Kimmers, put the ladies away please! I love me some Marchesa, but this look is a little vulgar on the chesty Kim K. I just feel like her one breast is going to escape at any moment. The girls need a little more support, don't you think, Kim? Oh, and step away from the fake eyelashes. You look crazypants.

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SAG Awards 2011: January Jones

January Jones in Carolina Herrera
Well, JJ, thanks for covering up. I know I was anti-all your dirty hooker cutouts at the Globes, but not sure going for this level of covering was necessary to appease me. I think the lace is very pretty and like the silhouette, but I think the neck really isn't doing it for me. Too high maybe? I'm not sure what's throwing me off... but it's something.

B

SAG Awards 2011: Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara in Roberto Cavalli
VAVAVOOM!!!!! I'm sorry, y'all, but I have a serious girl crush on Sofia Vergara. The woman is gorgeous. Just supreme sexiness. And she plays every curve to its utmost hotness in this figure-hugging, but still beautiful, Cavalli gown. The casually flowing locks just up the sex appeal. And work to not overdo an already smoking gown. Love.

A

SAG Awards 2011: Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank in Versace

This gown is flowy and ethereal. The beaded detail on the bodice and ruching make for an interesting twist, while her big, soft curls add a hint of romance. It has the elements of something I would love, but I'm just not feeling it. Maybe because the color is dull. Maybe because I think Hilary Swank looks like a man. I dunno.

B

SAG Awards 2011: Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman in Azzaro
Well, this is a pleasant improvement from the bleeding muumuu at the Globes. Still a bit of a sack like the last look, but a little more baby bump showing, and much much more understated. Hair and makeup are the perfect classic combo for this minimal gown.

B+

SAG Awards 2011: Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson in J. Mendel
Occasionally Mr. EWP pretends to be watching when I am engrossed in red carpet coverage and for whatever reason, when Rosario Dawson showed up on the SAG red carpet, Mr. EWP chose to look up from his book and asked "What do you think of her dress?" And my response was "It looks so pretty and soft, I want to touch it!" I think that was a strange response to him because he gave me a weird look and immediately went back to reading.

What? It looks so soft! I really do want to touch it. I love the soft, pale yellow with the turquoise earrings. Fabulous combo.

A-

SAG Awards 2011: Amy Adams

Amy Adams in Hervé Leroux

No one does a sleek ponytail like Amy Adams. Lady is a stunner with her hair pulled back. The dress, however, I found a little strange. In theory I would love it - simple, elegant, very flowy and feminine, but then I saw her walking with it and she held the piece that hangs down the middle as she walked. If you can't walk in your dress like a normal person, then you don't get to have me tell you that you looked nice in it.

B-

SAG Awards 2011: Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman in Nina Ricci

Nicole Kidman continues her streak of random accessorizing with this odd statement necklace over a high-neck lace dress. Why, people? Why?

This dress by itself could have been pretty, if a tad dreary, but with the necklace and the lipstick, it's really just sad and confusing.

F

SAG Awards 2011: Tina Fey

Tina Fey in Oscar de la Renta
STOP THE PRESSES! Tina Fey was at an awards show and didn't wear black or navy!!!!! This is an actual color, y'all! I'm so shocked I can't even begin to review it. Excuse me while I compose myself.....

Okay, I'm back. The dress looks a little applique for my tastes, but I do appreciate the grown up glamour look she put together. And good job going understated with hair in a low bun and understated makeup when wearing a red, busy dress.

B

SAG Awards 2011: Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks in L'Wren Scott
I must say this dress looked smashing on screen. Christina's waist looked teeny tiny and her curves fantabulous. But in pictures, it looks like a total miss. Sadness. In real life I quite enjoyed the smoking jacket turned evening gown look, but these pictures just make her look like she's wearing a sad robe. Guess people should be more aware of how their look photographs.

B

SAG Awards 2011: Helena Bonham Carter

I depend on Helena Bonham Carter for my red carpet crazy. She's always so reliably ridiculous. But, y'all, this look is downright boring for her. The shoes actually match! She's just wearing pearls!

I don't know what to do with myself. The world just seems so wrong and upside down now.

B-

SAG Awards 2011: Heather Morris

Heather Morris in Romona Keveza

Forget Lea Michele and Diana Agron, this Glee starlet is giving the other ladies a run for their red carpet money. Heather is simply stunning in this soft peach gown with soft hair and makeup to match. Love.

A+

Centurion Names Six Emerging Design Contest Winners

Dusty Angles by Nuttapon (Kenny) Yongkiettakul

The Centurion 2011 jewelry show has named six winners of Centurion’s Emerging Designer Contest during its opening dinner held Saturday. The winners are:
* William Belack, Belack Jewelry Design, United States
* Pamela Harari, Pamela Harari Jewelry Design, Israel
* Amitai Kav, Amitai Kav, Israel
* Valerie Ostenak, VOSTENAKstudios, USA
* JJ

Centurion Names Six Emerging Design Contest Winners

Dusty Angles by Nuttapon (Kenny) Yongkiettakul

The Centurion 2011 jewelry show has named six winners of Centurion’s Emerging Designer Contest during its opening dinner held Saturday. The winners are:
* William Belack, Belack Jewelry Design, United States
* Pamela Harari, Pamela Harari Jewelry Design, Israel
* Amitai Kav, Amitai Kav, Israel
* Valerie Ostenak, VOSTENAKstudios, USA
* JJ

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Milly sailboat blouse:Miu Miu suede platform pumps:Tibi raindrops shift dress:Burberry cosmetics case:Marie-Helene de Taillac bracelet:

1992-93 Montreal Canadiens Brian Bellows Jersey

After a successful junior career, during which he scored 116 points in his rookie season with the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL, Brian Bellows was drafted second overall by Minnesota in 1982 after the North Stars made a trade to move up with selecting Bellows in mind. He would play ten seasons in Minnesota, making it to the Stanley Cup Finals once in 1991 and appear in three All-Star Games, 1984, 1988 and 1992. His best offensive season was in 1989-90, when he scored a career high 55 goals and 44 assists for 99 points. Additionally, Bellows would serve as the North Stars captain in 1984.

In 1992 he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens, where he would play three seasons and capture his only Stanley Cup in 1993.

The later years of his career would see him traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1995, where he played in his 1,oooth game on this date in 1996, scoring an assist in the Lightning's 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

He was then traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim early in the 1996-97 season and would play 62 games during his only season in California.

He began the 1997-98 season with the Capitals, only they were the Berlin Capitals of the German DEL. After 31 games in Germany, he signed as a free agent with the Washington Capitals back in the NHL, with whom he would return to the Stanley Cup Finals later that season.

During his second season in Washington, he would score his 1000th point, becoming the 54th player to reach that milestone.

Today's featured jersey is a 1992-93 Montreal Canadiens Brian Bellows jersey. Bellows won the only Stanley Cup of his career with Montreal after being traded by the North Stars.

This classic Canadiens jersey features the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals patch on the front as worn when the Canadiens defeated Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings. The Canadiens version of the cup finals patch was in French, the only such time that the patch has been made in other than English, and the only time there was a different version for both teams, as the Kings wore an English version on their jerseys.

Our video section today features Bellows, not known as a fighter, involved in a scrap with the Winnipeg Jets Laurie Boschman.

Here is Bellows fighting none other than ESPN's own Barry Melrose!

Here is the final minute of the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, the only Stanley Cup of Bellows' career.

2007 NHL All-Star Game Brian Rolston Jersey

The 2007 NHL All-Star Game was a significant event for not only the NHL, but it's new jersey supplier Reebok, as their new Reebok Edge Uniform System made it's on-ice competition debut.

Touted for it's lighter weight and more aerodynamic properties, the Edge Uniform System was also designed to be much more form-fitting than the previous generation of jerseys and offer enhanced player performance and increase safety and protection while offering a more breathable, water repellant jersey with a greater range of motion.

Claims of a 14% reduction in weight, equivalent to the weight of a hockey puck based on changes to the traditional jerseys and socks, combined with 76% less moisture absorption by the new fabrics developed for the new jerseys were expected to allow the players to stay stronger and play faster.

The durability was also claimed to be almost twice as long as that of the previous generation.

Wind tunnel testing showed the new jerseys to have 9% less aerodynamic drag than before as well.

The process to introduce the new jerseys began in 2003. Concepts were presented to general manager and the player's union and then prototypes were created and tested before the project was approved in the summer of 2006 and on-ice tests were conducted during team practices at both the NHL and minor league level before the jerseys finally made their debut at the 2007 NHL All-Star Game in Dallas.

Following their debut at the 2007 NHL All-Star Game, the Reebok Edge jerseys became the official on-ice jerseys for all 30 NHL teams beginning with the 2007-08 NHL season, which resulted in an unprecedented redesign of every jersey for every team in the league.

Today's featured jersey is a 2007 NHL All-Star Game Brian Rolston jersey, the first of the Reebok Edge jerseys to see action in NHL competition.

There was a mid-season redesign of the jerseys, known as the "Edge 2.0" once they began regular season use in 2007-08 after player complaints that the jerseys repelled so much water that excessive sweat was collecting in their gloves during games. The solution was to create a new jersey which used material from the previous generation of jerseys to retain some of the sweat repelled by the new jerseys.

The authentic jerseys sold at the retail level to fans are known as the Reebok Edge Authentic, while the replica version is referred to as the Reebok Premier. Both the Edge and Premier versions of the new jerseys have had a tough time being accepted by collectors due to the new jerseys being much more prone to snagging when worn. Complaints also focused on the basic fit of the jerseys, especially when compared to the previous generation of jerseys, as the arms are cut considerably longer when compared to an older jersey of the same body width.

Confusion has reigned about how the jerseys are tagged for sizing, with many wondering if they used to purchase a size large, should they now select an extra large to maintain the same fit they are used to and prefer when buying a jersey that is said to be more "form fitting".

The Premier jerseys have also received some very valid criticism for their shoulder patches when used, as the designs are screen printed on to a rather brittle piece of fabric which is then applied to the jersey, rather than a higher quality embroidered patch found on the replica jerseys made by CCM, ProPlayer, Starter and Nike before them.

The factory customization of the Premier jerseys also suffers from the same inferior quality treatment, as any name or number in more than one color has the inner color printed on with fake stitch marks, rather than being two actual layers of twill sewn together. Many collectors, including us here at Third String Goalie, prefer when buying a Reebok Premier jersey to purchase a blank one and have it customized with with layers of fully sewn twill.

Another large strike against the Premier jerseys was, despite the cheaper, and frankly unacceptable, printed shoulder patches, the price of a blank jersey jumped from roughly $80 for a CCM 550 to $120 for a Reebok Premier during one of the worst economies of our lifetimes when many were finding themselves out of work. We personally did not feel that a 9% reduction in aerodynamic drag was worth a 50% price increase for what we felt was a worse fitting, more fragile and more cheaply made product despite all the technological advances for on ice use, which have no effect on your average fan sitting in the stands who is not sweating buckets full of moisture or in need of any increased safety features.

Today's video segment is highlights from the 2007 NHL All-Star Game, which was the debut of the new Reebok Edge Uniform System. Watch out for the sudden volume increase at 4:30!

Next is Reebok's introductory video for the Edge Uniform System, first in English and then again in French.

1999 NHL All-Star Game Wayne Gretzky Jersey

Among his dozens of NHL scoring records, Wayne Gretzky holds five NHL All-Star Game scoring records, the Most Points in One Period, the Most Goals in One Period, the Most Goals in One Game, the Most Goals in All-Star Game History and the Most Points in All-Star Game History.

His first All-Star appearance was in the World Hockey Association in 1979 when he got to play with his childhood idol Gordie Howe and his son Mark. The event was not a single game dividing stars of the WHA into two teams pitted against each other in the usual All-Star Game format, but a three game series between the WHA All-Stars and Dynamo Moscow of the Soviet Union. During the three games the line scored seven points in the 4-2 win for the WHA. Gretzky scored a goal in the WHA's second consecutive 4-2 win before being held scoreless in the final game in which the WHA completed a three game sweep 4-3.

Gretzky's first NHL All-Star appearance came in the following season in Detroit in 1980. His first All-Star point arrived in 1981 with an assist in the third period when Doug Wilson scored at 10:18 of the third period on assists from Mike Bossy and Gretzky.

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Wayne Gretzky wore this style of jersey in both 1980 and 1981

The first of his record 13 All-Star Game goals came in 1982 in Landover, Maryland just 26 seconds into the second period from Paul Coffey and Dino Ciccarelli.

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Gretzky's star-spangled 1982 All-Star jersey

His first multi-point and multi-goal game came in 1983 at the Nassau Coliseum when he set All-Star Game records for Most Points, Most Goals in One Period and Most Goals in a Single Game when he erupted for four goals in the third period against Pelle Lindbergh.

His first goal was the game winning goal for the Campbell Conference at 6:20 from Jari Kurri and Coffey. His second came from Mark Messier and Kurri at 10:31. He completed a hat trick at 15:32 from Wilson and Messier. The Campbell Conference continued to pour it on and Gretzky completed his record setting scoring binge with the Campbell's sixth goal of the period and Gretzky's fourth from Messier at 19:18. Four other players have since tied the record for most goals in a game, but Gretzky was the first in league history to accomplish the feat, and only needed one period to do so! Two other players equalled Gretzky's four points in one period, but he still stands alone for the most goals in one period 28 years later. Not surprisingly, Gretzky earned the first of his All-Star Game MVP awards following the game.

In 1984, he added a goal to his career total in New Jersey. Another goal followed in 1985 in Calgary and again in 1986 in Hartford, with all three also coming in the third period of their respective games.

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This highly attractive style was worn by Gretzky in both 1984 and 1986

1988 saw his goal scoring streak reach five consecutive games, but for a change of pace it arrived earlier in the game during first period.

Gretkzy made his first All-Star appearance in Edmonton in 1989, only now as a member of the Los Angeles Kings. He put on a show for the Oilers faithful who were again able to cheer for Gretzky as a member of the "home" Campbell Conference squad.

The scoring began with an assist on Kurri's goal 1:07 into the contest. His goal scoring streak continued at 4:33 from Steve Duchesne. Another assist arrived at 12:18 of the third period en route to the Campbell Conference's 9-5 win. Following the game, Gretzky was named the recipient of his second All-Star Game MVP award.

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This sharp looking style debuted in 1989 and lasted through 1993

The unimaginable happened in 1990 in Pittsburgh when Gretzky was held scoreless, ending a nine game All-Star Game scoring streak. He returned to the scoring column in 1991 in Chicago with his 11th career goal in the second period in the Campbell Conference's 11-5 win to surpass Howe's career NHL All-Star Game goal scoring record of 10.

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Gretzky wore the road black version in 1990 and went back to the home white in 1991

The NHL celebrated it's 75th Anniversary season by wearing throwback jerseys to the original All-Star game in 1947 in Philadelphia. Gretzky Scored a goal in the first period and collected a pair of assists in the second for a three point game.

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This striking 1947 throwback was worn in Philadelphia in 1992

Gretzky was again held off the board in Montreal in 1993 and again bounced back in New York's Madison Square Garden in 1994 with two assists.

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The final time out for this style was adorned with the Stanley Cup Centennial patch in 1993

There was no All-Star Game in 1995 due to the labor issues which delayed the start of the season until after the new year. Gretzky did not register a point in a relatively low scoring game in Boston in 1996 and a single assist in San Jose in 1997 moved Gretzky into sole possession of the All-Star Game career scoring record with 20 points, once again passing a record held by Howe. The switch to the Eastern Conference in 1996-97 gave Gretzky an opportunity to play with several new teammates not previously possible, especially a reunion with former Canada Cup teammate Mario Lemieux, whose goal he assisted on during what would be their only All-Star game on the same team.

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This creative new template debuted in 1994, but hasn't aged well over time due to the trendy color choices of purple and teal

A change in format to North America vs. The World in 1998 scrambled his teammates once more, yet Gretzky found the chemistry to generate another pair of assists with American John LeClair and long time Oilers teammate Mark Messier on the North American's game winning goal.

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Another strong design arrived in 1998 for the World vs. North America format

Gretzky's final All-Star Game in Tampa, Florida was an unqualified success and a great way to cap off a record setting All-Star career for The Great One when he had an assist in the first period, pushed the career goal scoring record to 13 in the second period and later added a final assist to push his career point scoring record to 25, which still stands today. The final cherry on top was Gretzky being named the game's MVP, the third such occasion of his career, which allowed him to tie Lemieux for the most in All-Star Game history.

Today's featured jersey is a 1999 NHL All-Star Game Wayne Gretzky jersey. This sharp jersey template was worn by Gretzky for his final two All-Star Games and was loaded with patches. All of the jerseys used in the game had the 1999 All-Star Game logo on the right shoulder, the logo of the player's club team on the left shoulder and the flag from his country of origin on the upper right chest. Additionally, Gretzky's jersey was adorned with the captain's "C" on the upper left chest to complete the look.

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Today's video segment begins with Gretzky's interview after his record setting four goals in one period in 1983.

Here is Gretzky's assist on Lemieux's goal in the 1997 edition of the NHL All-Star Game, the only time the two of them would play together in an All-Star Game.

Finally, highlights of Gretzky's MVP performance in his final All-Star Game in 1999 broadcast in some Eastern European language, which we feel speaks to Gretzky's worldwide appeal.