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Week in Photos – September 5, 2016
Signet rings and Romanov jewels were just a couple of visual highlights from this week’s stories.
As summer came to a close, Stella & Dot announced its foray into fine jewelry and columnist Peter Smith weighed in on how retailers can break down their businesses to focus on the core accounts that matter.
In the Northwest, Blue Nile opened a web room in Portland, and the jewelry industry lost a Seattle-based legend in Alvin Goldfarb, who died at 84.
National Jeweler did some digging on the history of the signet ring, while the GIA began digitizing its extensive library of jewelry and gemstone-related tomes.
See all this and more in our Week in Photos.
Stella & Dot, the costume jewelry company that specializes in selling at trunk shows and jewelry parties, announced it is branching into fine jewelry with a line of 14-karat gold and diamond pieces.
“Squirrel Spotting” columnist Peter Smith challenged retailers to imagine they were starting their business from scratch. Smith suggested using his “Six Boxes” exercise to prioritize the top-selling brands in jeweler’s cases.
Blue Nile opened another web room in Portland, Ore., where customers can try on, but not buy, merchandise. The Portland location is the first on the West Coast; the e-tailer plans to open another web room in Seattle by Thanksgiving.
Alvin Goldfarb Jeweler’s namesake founder died at age 84. A pillar of his community, Goldfarb opened his Seattle store in 1980.
Jewelry rental website Adorn.com, which specializes in diamond jewelry like this cuff, announced it is looking for a buyer to take over the company.
National Jeweler examined the history of the signet ring, which was used as a seal in antiquity and is enjoying a resurgence as fashion fine jewelry by contemporary designers. This ring is from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
De Beers’ PhosView, pictured here, was designed to scan parcels of white diamonds and detect synthetics. It will be on view later this month in Hong Kong.
GIA announced that it has digitized over 200 notable jewelry-related books from its library as the first phase of a larger digitization project. Pictured here is a plate from a rare catalog of Roman jewelry.
In her latest Style File column, Amanda Gizzi rounded up 13 examples of collaborations between designers and mining companies, celebrities and more.
The RapNet Diamond Index for August indicated that prices for 1-carat polished diamonds declined, while other sizes of stones stayed the same or rose slightly. Meanwhile, De Beers reported a “healthy” seventh sales cycle of the year.
Diamonds Unleashed announced that its partnership with Serena Williams would be on display during Williams’ HSN line fashion show on Monday of New York Fashion Week.
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