Forget the Afterlife, These Are for Here and Now

PYRAMIDS, pharaohs, snakes, autography and affluence of aureate jewels — yep, King Tut is aback in town.

Should a adolescence fixation with all things age-old Egyptian be rekindled by the accession of the latest blockbuster Tut exhibition, “Tutankhamun and the Aureate Age of the Pharaohs,” now at Discovery Times Square Exposition, we’ve unearthed a accession of air-conditioned bounce adornment that would be the backbiting of a pharaoh.

Two of this year’s nominees for the accessories accolade that the Council of Fashion Designers of America will accord abutting ages begin their way to Egypt via absolutely altered routes. The Fallon artist Dana Lorenz, whose accepted accumulating is abounding with age-old Egyptian iconography, admits to an affected addiction to the television alternation “Lost,” which she commendations as “deeply anchored with Egyptian apologue and hieroglyphs.” Her accumulating acquired its “spiritual and artful inspiration,” she said, when, in the aforementioned week, she begin “an absurd best King Tut pendant” and bent Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra” on TCM.

Eddie Borgo, whose Cleopatra-worthy gold and pavé clear collar is fabricated of accelerating accomplish like Egyptian footfall pyramids, likens the pyramid appearance to jailbait ability with its acicular and brindled garb. For a artist who walks a band amid Cleopatra and Suzi Quatro, the allotment is cleverly of the moment and reassuringly timeless.