Welcome to Avalaya.com, where you will find a stunning range of brooches and pins to fit all tastes and budgets. If you're looking to buy a brooch, you've most certainly come to the right place - we have one of the largest collections available online. Please feel free to browse our store for various brooch styles, including vintage, catwalk, contemporary, floral, cameo and animal brooches. Remember that a brooch can go almost anywhere - on the lapel of your favourite coat, a hat, a bag, a pair of your swankiest heels, in your hair and even on a wedding cake! Told you you'd be spoiled for choice!

Minimalism returns in Fall/Winter 2012 and 2013. Clothes are simple and structured. There is a difference this time. Minimalist clothing is accessorized with stunning jewellery.

It makes sense. Simple clothing remarkable because of their cut and fabric are given and added boost by the addition of a single stunning Crystal necklace that really stands out. Costume jewellery, or bijoux de couture was once handmade in 1960s exclusively by jewelers for very rich, private clients. Fast forward to 2012 and 2013. Costume jewellery just as stunning is available to everyone. The best are made of crystals(Rhinestones, Swarovski Crystals) like these: check our endless range for Crystal Jewellery in Crystal Section:

Being one of the first things used by our ancestors for self-adornment, bead jewellery enjoys great popularity up to the present. But it is worth mentioning, that, historically, beads served as the symbol of wealth and flourishing and were also worn for the sake of self-protection and other superstitious reasons.

Probably, having seen how gorgeous beads are, people began to decorate their hair, hats, sleeves of their clothes with beads. Besides, beads were used as the currency of the ancient times. Thus, beads made of the Egyptian china indicate contacts with Egypt.

Today, any famous jewellery house aspires to having beads and necklaces in any of its collections. In a few days, their stunning shine is likely to catch the eye of the A-listers in pursuit of something glamorous and special for another red-carpet appearance. No wonder, chosen with taste, beads and necklaces can create miracles. At Avalaya we have a big collection of Bead Jewellery: