Robert Lee Morris for Calvin Klein Sterling Silver Pressure Bangle #3

This unique Robert Lee Morris for Calvin Klein Sterling Silver Pressure Bangle #3, is a super clean architectural design that reflects the iconic CK brand ethos. Minimal design, with crisp elegant lines, like his clothes and all his products, this bangle opens by pulling the arms apart gently releasing the arched “door” that lets one put it on nearly any size wrist. The photos below show how there is a gold pin that acts as the lock when the “door is closed and fitted back in place. The entire bangle is made from a finely ribbed silver bar, ridged and textured. The door that opens is curved to add dimension. What a beauty and so classic!

Around 1996, Calvin opened his first store on Madison Avenue and asked Morris to create a special unique collection of silver jewelry, bracelets, earrings, and hair barrettes that would smack of the clean minimal CK style, and this is what it looked like. Calvin and Robert had worked beautifully together in 1981 and this was a renewal of that bond. Sold only in his top stores, beginning with the flagship on Madison Avenue in New York City, the craftsmen in the RLM workshop in Soho endeavored to make this very iconic collection. Most of these pieces now listed on this website are actually marked with the Calvin Klein logo and are the remaining prototypes that Morris has in his archives. Calvin was inspired by the jewelry that Georgia O’Keefe wore, which had the feeling of classic Southwestern jewelry.