• When designers bring old styles back into fashion, they usually miss the mark – like bringing back daisies and bell-bottoms from the ’60s without any mention of Vietnam.

• Tom Binns doesn’t white-wash his ’80s inspiration: studded leather cuffs with heavy sterling fasteners and emerald-cut crystals, sterling slave collars and spiked bangles, and a silver bullet necklace, to name a few. It’s rock n’ roll jewelry ready for the red carpet.

• Binns was trained as a fine artist and welder, and signed up for jewelry classes to get girls, which is probably what makes his jewelry such obscene fun.

• Michelle Obama has been seen sporting pieces by Tom Binns.

• A big silver heart pendant held together by safety pins and bent nails, hung on long strings of tiny pearls goes for $325.

“Here’s the thing: It’s, like, $30,000, so if you feel comfortable with that responsibility, that’s fine.” – Boutique Manager(in response to the journalist’s request to try on a unique necklace)