A number of interesting points came up last Thursday in Las Vegas during a Kimberley Process (KP) panel held at the JCK show. I just wish there had been more people there to hear them. To open the meeting, World...
After speaking with Forevermark CEO Stephen Lussier in London a few weeks ago, Charles Stanley, who heads De Beers’ branded diamond program here in the United States, took some time last week to provide more specifics on how Forevermark will...
The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France this month gave celebrities a red carpet chance to show off their jewels, while events in New York City and California called for diamond- (and pearl) studded stars. Here’s some of the...
When I was heading over to London last week to learn more about De Beers’ Forevermark branded diamond program I spent the majority of my time on the plane working on an in-depth story to accompany our upcoming State of...
I’ve seen some fierce animal-inspired jewelry lately, and I’m talking about more than gold and silver serpents slithering up arms and fingers. Designers have embraced the entire animal kingdom, from exotic felines to animals under the sea. Carrera y Carrera...
Always curious to see what those in the spotlight are accessorizing with, I wanted to share the best of celebrity jewelry that’s made its way to my desk over the past week. There doesn’t seem to be much necklace-action, as...
I was out in San Francisco last week for American Gem Society Conclave, my second Conclave in the nearly four years I’ve worked at National Jeweler. Conclave is a lot to take in for one person, so I’ve done the...
Earlier this week Christie’s confirmed what had been circulating around the World Wide Web already for weeks: that the auction house would be the one to sell the historic collections of the late, great Elizabeth Taylor, including her millions in...
It was a lucky day in March for John Stevens. While using his metal detector in a ploughed field in South Leicestershire, England, he located and dug up an exceptionally rare 15th Century diamond crystal ring (below). Bonhams auction house...
Jordan Alexander jewelry received some presidential treatment this month, when first lady Michelle Obama accessorized with the brand for a dinner she attended with husband and United States President Barack Obama. The unofficial dinner was hosted by Chilean President Sebastian...
Designer Nora Logan has created Pure Dead Brilliant, a collection of jewelry that fuses elements of culture from around the world into inspiration and design. Nora has spent her life in major cities such as Hong Kong, London, and New...
Lorraine Garvey embodied many of the personal attributes and characteristics I admire most. President of the Women's Jewelry Association's chapter in her home base of New England, Lorraine represented the model of gender equality—someone to be respected and looked up...
In re-capping 2010 with retailers, I had a number of them tell me that business was up during the course of the year, but all with one interesting footnote: Sales were off in the months when they would traditionally see...
I don't know about you, but I'm bombarded, constantly, by useless information. In media, they call it "feeding the beast." If you're CNN, for example, 24/7 is a lot of air time to fill. And, unfortunately, too much of the...
It wasn't long ago that Americans were exploited by Europe for our rich natural resources. In the heyday of colonialism, it was standard operating procedure for powerful nations to divvy up the world and its spoils, with little interest in...
We've been hard at it at National Jeweler over the past two months, but we're finally slipping comfortably into our new role as an exclusively online content provider. After restructuring workflow and staff and fine tuning our editorial mission, we're...
I spent all last night thinking about it, so I need to revisit the story we published yesterday about the jeweler who sued a man after he had posted antisemitic comments on the Internet business review site Yelp. You can...
Equities markets are on a tear. And that's welcomed relief for millions of 401K-focused American consumers. Economists almost unanimously agree, however, that the primary dampener on full recovery at this point is the tenacious high level of unemployment. Kudos to...
There is nothing so definitive to our business as product. It's jewelry, after all, that makes us jewelers. The well-informed coverage of fine jewelry fashion developments and trends is central to our mandate here at National Jeweler. As the trade's...
Hi all. As our industry's leading online news service, National Jeweler doesn't create the news. We just report it. And in the course of doing so, we find that the prevailing trends in retailing, especially those for fine jewelry, come...
I had the opportunity recently to chat with newly inducted California Jewelers Association (CJA) President James Orloff about a cool new initiative the CJA has launched to help get recession-flogged California consumers interested in fine jewelry again. TheCaratDiet.com, which National...
This blog entry was written and submitted to National Jeweler 10X by gem author Antoinette Matlins. Are you one of the increasing number who are buying and selling “composite rubies”—unknowingly? If you buy and sell rubies today, this fact sheet...
In late December, 109-year-old retailer J.C. Penney took a bold social media step forward when it started hawking its wares on Facebook, a move that has been met with lukewarm reviews. While nobody can begrudge the Plano, Texas-based retailer that...
In the jewelry industry, it's a common truism that the holiday season equals engagement season, and it's one that certainly didn't miss Hollywood this year. Stars including Reese Witherspoon, LeAnn Rimes and Natalie Portman are just a few of the...
As we enter the New Year, it is, as always, a time to reflect. This moving account, of a different kind of store interaction, was sent to National Jeweler by Michael Gross of H.L.Gross & Bro., Garden City, N.Y., and...
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