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Byline: Mark Holgate
Irini Arakas, a Vogue fashion reporter who now designs jewelry under the label Prova, tackled a tough task this year: how to follow up on the huge wave of success she crested last year with her charming necklaces of Swarov-ski pearls, Chinese wooden animals, and silver skull talismans strung by hand onto strips of Parisian silk. One weekend in December, vacationing on Sanibel Island off the Gulf Coast, she figured it out: She'd use shells found scattered on the sand. "Sanibel is where old shells go to retire," Arakas says. "The currents deposit thousands of them there."
The shells, treated by ...