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Article: Full of Binns: Maverick jewelry designer Tom Binns brings his iconoclastic approach to fine jewels.(Accessories Flash)
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- December 1, 2005
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Who is it now?" a voice bellows from the depths of a Paris showroom. Tom Binns, the boisterous, Belfast-born costume jewelry designer, storms by a bevy of influential New York buyers huddled around a glass showcase to pull a visitor into his office. "It's insulting," he grumbles along the way, hardly lowering his voice. "Did you see what she was wearing?" Indeed, it was difficult to miss, dangling from the neck of one of the buyers: a long chain bearing more than a passing resemblance to an original Tom Binns creation.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but Binns doesn't take kindly to what he alleges are widespread copies of his work. "They're all ...