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A gem-laden Easter egg hunt, a Farimined gold trophy by Chopard and jewelry at the MTV Movie Awards are among the jewelry-related events that happened around the globe this week.
Around 1,000 kids and their parents showed up for the 30th annual Children’s Spring Festival and Easter Egg Hunt, where 8,000 candy-filled eggs awaited discovery.
A gem-laden Easter egg hunt, a Farimined gold trophy by Chopard and jewelry at the MTV Movie Awards are among the jewelry-related events that happened around the globe this week.
Egg hunters had the chance to find gemstones last Sunday when Great Falls, Va.-based Adeler Jewelers, along with the Great Falls Optimist Club, hosted the 30th annual Children’s Spring Festival and Easter Egg Hunt. More than $10,000 worth of gems were hidden in the 8,000 candy-filled eggs scattered around Great Falls Village Centre.
Also this week, Chopard announced that the Palme d’Or, the Chopard-designed trophy presented at the Cannes Film Festival, will be made entirely in Fairmined certified gold. An event in Paris marked the occasion.
On Sunday night were the annual MTV Movie Awards and this year a few jewelry brands got their pieces on presenting actresses.
Click through this week’s slideshow to see it all.
Around 1,000 kids and their parents showed up for the 30th annual Children’s Spring Festival and Easter Egg Hunt, where 8,000 candy-filled eggs awaited discovery.
In addition to games, rides and food, the event also offered Easter egg hunters the opportunity to find genuine gemstones, as Adeler Jewelers hid $10,000 worth of stones among the eggs.
The hunt, which is second in size only to the White House Easter Egg Roll, took place at the Great Falls Village Centre in Great Falls, Va., outside of Washington.
Chopard co-President Caroline Scheufele poses with the Chopard Palme d’Or trophy, which is awarded annually to the best film in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in France.
From left, actress Hilary Swank, Scheufele, Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Frémaux and Livia Firth, founder of brand consultancy firm Eco-Age and wife of actor Colin Firth, at the Paris event.
A selection of Chopard’s red-carpet jewelry also was on display at the trophy event.
Actress Cameron Diaz, center, with actress Leslie Mann (left) and rapper/singer Nikki Minaj wore earrings by Melissa Kaye Jewelry and a ring by Melinda Maria to the MTV Movie Awards. All three star in the new comedy The Other Woman.
Jenna Dewan-Tatum, wife of 21 Jump Street actor Channing Tatum, attended the awards show wearing earrings by designer Jack Vartanian.
Vince Gill and Amy Grant perform at the Kaleidoscope Ball, which took place on April 10 in Beverly Hills, Calif. The ball, which benefits the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute, was the platform where the 2014 Harry Winston Fellows program was announced, part of the newly established Harry Winston Fellowship Fund for the hospital.
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