Visits: 20 A wealthy businessman’s acquisitions include a gem-studded diadem and large dragonfly brooch. Mention Lisbon and people tend to think of colorful tiles, delicious egg custard tarts and emotional fado songs. But the Portuguese capital also is home to …
19 Looks That Did the Most at the Oscars
Visits: 22 At the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the red carpet showed not only its true color but also its reputation as a vehicle for elegant, over-the-top and even political fashion. Though there were bright moments — Cynthia Erivo’s …
Brushed Gold Becomes the Finish of the Moment
Visits: 25 Designers say the matte surface creates an interesting play of light for their pieces. Take a back seat, polished gold. Your shiny and reflective surface has been looking a bit too brash recently as the matte, low-key look …
Jewelry Designs Come to Him in a Kind of Dream
Visits: 25 When he wakes up, Adam Neeley said, “I have the piece perfectly imagined in my head like it’s already done.” You could almost see the gears in Adam Neeley’s head turning. The jeweler from Laguna Beach, Calif., was …
America Ferrera, Katie Holmes, and Carey Mulligan Turn Out for Chanel
Visits: 29 The brand hosted a celebrity-fueled bash for its U.S. foray into high-end jewelry. On Wednesday night, a throng of actors, cycling through a swirl of events — awards season, New York Fashion Week and the Super Bowl — …
An Old-School Ring Becomes a Modern Style Signifier
Visits: 27 Designers play with the traditional signet design to create contemporary looks in the likes of crystal, sapphire and platinum. The jewelry designer Matthew Harris often wears on his pinkie an eye-catching signet ring with the letter M in …
Zircons Are Not the Gem You Probably Think They Are
Visits: 25 What’s in a name? If you could ask the humble zircon, the answer might be mistaken identity and decades of undeserved obscurity. In the Victorian era, the peak of popularity for zircons, a mined mineral, colorless ones were …
A 100-Year-Old Jewelry Design That Still Looks Cool
Visits: 20 How Cartier’s genderless Trinity style became a cult classic. The French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau always wore two Cartier Trinity rings stacked on his left pinkie. Even after his death in 1963, Cocteau’s name was so closely …
Stones Inspire a High Jewelry Collection
Visits: 37 “Showing the pebbles with diamonds, it brought out what’s beautiful about the pebble,” the designer Fernando Jorge said. On a visit to Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil a year ago, Fernando Jorge explored a few dried riverbeds …
A Tokyo Designer Captures Memories in Gems
Visits: 47 Mio Harutaka’s pieces include bunnies, daisies and a piano keyboard ring in diamonds and onyx. Jeweled citrus slices, strawberries, snails and a Pegasus-winged horse are just a few of the whimsical pieces by the Japanese jewelry designer Mio …