Gems Made in the U.S.A.

In the 1970s, when Jaymus Perry was growing up on the Navajo Nation reservation near Buell Park, Ariz., he and his siblings used to fill coffee cans with the raw peridots and chrome pyrope garnets that they found and sold the gems to local trading posts for spending money. “The sooner we could fill up…

Jewelry in 2023: Big and Small

Part of the category’s appeal, she said, was rooted in a growing preference for bold pieces. As she explained it, “Lab-grown diamonds sit in that trend, because you can get so much more diamond, and you can get bigger pieces, for the same amount of money that you would with the natural.” For 2023, Saks…

Bella Thorne Gets Into Jewelry

Bella Thorne, the actress, musician, author and entrepreneur, had “been wanting to get into jewelry for a long time,” she said in a recent video interview from her home in Los Angeles. So on her birthday, Oct. 8, she debuted Thorne, a brand she said had been three years in the making and was a…

What Is the Ideal Pair of Black Pants?

I need help figuring out which black pants are best. Lantern shape, too clownish? Peg legs, out of fashion? Accomplished women wearing black pants and blazers with a pop of color, like Elizabeth Warren and Angela Merkel, come to mind as looking fine for meetings but not so much for errands, concerts or dinner. Any…