Diamonds Help to Create Million Dollar Smiles

Dr. Thomas Connelly has turned the cliché “million dollar smile” into reality. In 2021, the “Father of Diamond Dentistry” — as Rolling Stone named him — reconstructed Post Malone’s smile with 18 porcelain veneers, eight platinum crowns and two six-carat diamonds replacing the singer-songwriter’s upper canines. Just diamonds. The total cost: $1.6 million. “Posty needed…

5 Designers on Their Lives in Jewelry

When The Times recently invited five independent jewelry designers for a morning of conversation, they all arrived wearing their own creations. “We are our brands,” as Bernard James, one of the jewelers, put it. “We represent what we make.” The designer, 32, wore, among other pieces, rings from his namesake brand’s Flora collection, inspired by…

Couture and High Jewelry Still Go Together

As the ultimate expressions of French savoir-faire and creativity, couture and high jewelry go hand in hand. More than a decade ago, high jewelry even helped save Couture Week. The fashion industry had been wondering whether couture could survive, given how few houses were staging runway shows. Then, in 2010, many of the most prominent…

Louis Vuitton Adds a Men’s Fine Jewelry Line

When Francesca Amfitheatrof, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director of watches and jewelry, started looking for a muse for her first fine jewelry collection for men, she didn’t choose a pop star, celebrity or influencer. Instead, she looked to the Vuitton family tree, landing on its lone third-generation heir who eventually took over the brand: Gaston-Louis Vuitton.…

High Jewelry That Channels the Power of Couture

Boucheron’s Histoire de Style high jewelry collection, presented every January, is inspired by pieces in the house’s archives. But this year, for its fourth iteration, it also highlighted a little-known bit of history: the house’s founder, Frédéric Boucheron, was the son of a textile merchant who specialized in silks and lace. “When I looked at…

Beadwork Regains Its Jewelry Appeal

With its bows, tiny shells, and glass flowers and hearts, Yona Kohen’s beaded jewelry requires a shift of aesthetic gears for those more accustomed to discreet chain pendants and barely there huggies. “My idea was to create these incredibly intricate and narrative pieces,” Ms. Kohen, 26, said during a recent phone interview from her home…