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"   Bracelets inspired by Silly Bandz. Photo: Love Rocks NY  Sometimes all that glitters isn&amp;#039;t gold, it&amp;#039;s diamonds. But in the case of Limor Setzer&amp;#039;s Love Rocks NY, it&amp;#039;s usually both. Limor grew up in NYC&amp;#039;s Diamond District, where almost 90% of the country&amp;#039;s diamond imports end up being processed; that&amp;#039;s a lot of bling in a couple block radius. Limor&amp;#039;s dad works in loose diamonds, and she frequently begged him to take her to work with him. She went to college and worked in the corporate world for a while, but her heart wasn&amp;#039;t in it. She eventually came back to the diamonds and learned how to evaluate stones. Without any formal training, her creativity and diamond pedigree&amp;#039;s served her well. Her first line of jewelry, primarily small charms, debuted in 2005. And now, though she&amp;#039;s steeped in custom work for private clients, her Love Rocks NY line is her creative outlet.   Pieces inspired by diamond&amp;#039;s exoskeletons. Photo: Love Rocks NY  It&amp;#039;s a collection of modern statement pieces that could can still conceivably be handed down to your granddaughter one day \u2014 micro pav\u00E9 diamonds are liberally sprinkled across surfaces providing tons of sparkle without the ostentation of larger stones. Inspiration from her five-year-old son has provided some of the whimsy in her recent collections. The standout intertwined bracelets and rings were born when Limor was contemplating her son&amp;#039;s obsession with Silly Bandz. &amp;quot;I was remembering when we were kids, they had those rubber bracelets that we used to intertwine,&amp;quot; she told us. &amp;quot;That was the launching point.&amp;quot; Diamond dust is brushed all over the exterior. The result is a sort of matte sparkle that&amp;#039;s modern and not at all fussy. After reading animal books and watching nature shows with her son, she wondered what a diamond&amp;#039;s exoskeleton would look like. The result? Large diamond shapes rendered in cagey gold, which are a cheeky nod to the huge stones that everyone lusted after in the heady days before the economy tanked. &amp;quot;I kind of wanted to reinterpret the way people receive and wear diamonds, and poke fun at it,&amp;quot; Limor explained. It&amp;#039;s hard to poke fun at something so gorgeous though. You can find her work scattered across New York&amp;#039;s specialty boutiques and on her own site, here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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