An informative writeup on the Stanley Guess culture, Stanley Guess Jewelry and the brand’s illustrious founder Stanley Guess. This article describes the reader through the founding of the Stanley Guess label brand and its rapid promotion to the top of the sterling silver gothic jewelry industry. Stanley Guess, also known as Guess Werks in Japan, is rumored to have played a role in putting Chrome Hearts on the map for daring & manly biker jewelry creations. Stanley is famous for his wood inlaid and skull themed silver jewelry.
Over thirty years, at the time Gabor Nagy began working on sterling silver gothic jewelry, Stanley Guess was quietly starting a similar category of luxurious sterling silver jewelry for males.
For about fourteen years, Stanley Guess was the craftsman of Chrome Hearts gothic silver jewelry, including the gigantic, chunky sterling pieces Chrome Hearts jewelry is well known for at this time. But, as people started to like it and demand soared, Chrome Hearts jewelry started employing their own workers to take over manufacturing. Disillusioned with the mass manufacturing concept which violated his ideas, Stanley Guess left Chrome Hearts to pioneer his personal chain of jewelry.
Stanley Guess then teamed up with a customer to promoted his high end sterling silver jewelry in the land of the rising sun, making a partnership known as Guess Werks. Guess Werks successfully began & promoted the Stanley Guess Chain to many of Japanese fans along the pacific world willing to fork out a bomb for Stanley Guess’s silver sterling works of art.
Why replicas, fakes and Stanley Guess inspired jewelry is rising in popularity
In recent times, Stanley Guess jewelry has faced challenges from countless offshore competitors possessing the talent, resources & ability to deliver equally intricate, beautiful & well-crafted luxury gothic silver jewelry to bikers & other fans at a fraction of Stanley Guess jewelry prices. Today, fans of gothic silver jewelry are given a wide range of alternatives to original Stanley Guess jewelry. Gothic sterling silver jewelry fans are waking up to the ugly truth behind branding, which is actually no more than an illusion. Brand is not something which customers can always be expected to pay for. In view of the easy availability of cheaper and just as well-crafted offerings, it is little wonder that luxury label jewelry is not an unusual or rare sight on the streets notwithstanding the premium brand prices of the original. The new and somewhat wiser sentiment is: why burn a hole in your pocket on luxury label jewelry when one can get a near identical piece made from the same best grade 925 sterling silver at a tiny fraction of the cost?
However, in purchasing alternatives in the form of replicas or similarly styled inspired designs, it is critical to confirm the grade of jewelry you are buying. Stanley Guess Jewelry competitors range from top quality alternatives & close replicas by bona fide jewelers to mass-producing bootleggers who churn out cheap bootlegs made from low-grade metals such as steel and copper.
For a comprehensive discussion of fakes & replicas, the writeup at the Chrome Hearts page will be very useful and informative.