Visits: 32 A former Tiffany & Company executive founded a start-up that spotlights these organic, lustrous gems and the water that’s essential to produce them. Roseate has been selling its pearl and pearl-inspired jewelry only since May, but its founder …
Calendar Watches Can Tell You a Lot About a Culture
Visits: 31 Religion, politics, war and, in particular, the position of the sun and the moon can figure into the design of these complex timekeepers. A watch can say a lot about you — your style, income and level of …
The Balenciaga Comeback Is Happening
Visits: 41 At the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala and with a new collection. Is the world ready? Demna, the mononymic designer of Balenciaga, that former harbinger of all things haute and cool that experienced a highly public fall …
Digital Interactions Are Just Part of a Jewelry Sale Now
Visits: 41 Brands find that some of their customers’ pandemic-era buying habits are here to stay. It has been more than a year since Covid-19 restrictions faded away in most parts of the world, but some fine jewelry brands are …
Mourning Jewelry Leaves the Victorian Era Behind
Visits: 46 Lab-grown diamonds made with cremation ashes are just one way people are honoring their loved ones. When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to …
Fine Jewelry Moves to the Darker Side
Visits: 31 The color black is showing up in designers’ gem and metal choices as an expression of everything from moody romanticism to downright Goth. All black, all the time: Black diamonds, black pearls, onyx, black spinels, obsidian and blackened …
They Sell Seashells (With Gems) From the Seashore
Visits: 28 Designers from Glenn Spiro to Silvia Furmanovich are turning shells into fine jewelry. On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltrán scoured the beach looking for beautiful seashells for her Dezso jewelry line. And finding an unusual …
Carroll, Clothes and Credibility
Visits: 37 During the E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump rape trial, every detail was part of building the case. Even the clothes. It was unclear, to the end, which way the jury would go in the E. Jean …
Karl and Anna, a Love Story in Clothes
Visits: 36 Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and global editorial director of Condé Nast, has been the maestro of every Met Gala since 1999. But this time, it’s personal. Not just because the exhibition the party honors is devoted …
Taylor Swift and the Sparkling Trap of Constant Reinvention
Visits: 29 Why do our female pop stars have to keep changing their clothes? Oscar de la Renta. Versace. Alberta Ferretti. Roberto Cavalli. Elie Saab. Christian Louboutin. Zuhair Murad. Ashish. The list of the designers who have made looks for …