LONDON — The Moroccan-born jewelry designer Bernard Delettrez always had a fascination with stones and jewelry. It may even have been in his genes. “Always. Always, always, always, always,” he said during a video call from Rome, where he now resides. “When I was young, I was always in front of the Cartier windows, you…
“What I read about these media mogul families and corporations is that there’s a serious level of fandom in the room,” she said in an interview at the premiere. On the show, she added, “the ever-shifting tide of who you’re fastening your trust to and who you feel betrayed by is always surprising.” Camille Perri,…
This is a tale of two meals and two men named Lam. It begins with a joke and ends with a prison sentence. Two years ago, one of Vietnam’s most powerful officials ate a steak encrusted with 24-karat gold during a trip to London. It didn’t go over well at home — a one-party state…
All black, all the time: Black diamonds, black pearls, onyx, black spinels, obsidian and blackened gold are just some of the materials turning up recently in fine jewelry creations. And while some of the appeal may spill over from that enduring classic, the little black dress, for many, dark gems seem to match the goth…
SHIMA, Japan — It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea — unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in this coastal city on Japan’s main island of Honshu. But as the farm workers say, there is always strong wind right before the weather begins to…
LONDON — On an upper floor in Romilly Saumarez Smith’s 18th-century house in the Stepney neighborhood of east London is a small closet that the Smiths understand was used to powder the wigs of the home’s original owners. Now the 30-square-foot space is packed with a jeweler’s bench and other equipment, racks full of tools,…
When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to California to be with him. Soon after her arrival, they talked about what was ahead: She told him she would like to have his ashes made into a diamond. He began to cry,…
On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltrán scoured the beach looking for beautiful seashells for her Dezso jewelry line. And finding an unusual one, she thinks, is like discovering a great diamond. “Amazing shells are hard to find,” Ms. Beltrán, a New York-based designer, said. “You can’t buy them or create them; it’s…
During this centennial year of her birth, the opera star Maria Callas’s life of high drama and high fashion — and the jewelry that accessorized it all — are back in the public spotlight. A photo of Callas in the 1958 “La Traviata” at the Royal Opera House in London, suitably anguished and with fabulous…
Threads Styling, an online personal-shopping service based in London with a presence on both WhatsApp and WeChat, said the communication tools have helped its fine jewelry business increase in recent years. And while its average fine jewelry sale online is 3,000 to 4,000 pounds ($3,734 to $4,978), Alyse Chirumbole, the company’s director of fine jewelry…