A roller coaster at an amusement park in Charlotte, N.C., was shut down on Friday after a visitor spotted a large crack in one of the ride’s pillars. The Carowinds amusement park said that it closed the coaster, called Fury 325, “after park personnel became aware of a crack at the top of a steel…
For two heritage jewelry houses, inspirations from the past are back in modernized versions at the high jewelry presentations this week in Paris. For Benoît Verhulle, the head of the jewelry atelier at Chaumet, the Blé necklace reprised a familiar theme: Its wheat motif has been part of the house’s lexicon for more than 200…
Claire Choisne, Boucheron’s creative director since 2011, said she set out to break all the rules while she created the house’s new 30-piece high jewelry collection. Called More is More, it is to be presented by appointment this week at the jewelry house’s hôtel particulier headquarters on Paris’s Place Vendôme. “We started working on it…
He had some 20 jobs in his first two years out of college, first as a pattern maker and then at a blouse company. “Blacks were the largely invisible members of the back-room staff in fashion houses during the 1960s,” he wrote in his memoir, and Mr. Haggins was not the back-room sort. “Getting hired…
Growing up in Benton, Ark., Malaya Tapp loved celebrating the Fourth of July with her family. “We would go to parades and see firework shows and hang out with friends,” she said. “It was always such a fun holiday.” But now that she is an adult — she’s 18 and entering college next year —…
Good morning. Purple finches have come to our bird feeder lately, eating after the cardinals have had their fill and before the red-winged blackbirds arrive. They whomp on the sunflower seeds and I feel as I do when I’ve served something to the children that they particularly like, as if I’ve achieved something, if only…
Rubies are like caviar: Their origin is an important part of their market value. Until a month ago, anyone interested in buying a big ruby knew with certainty that Myanmar, formerly called Burma, produced the most valuable stones. For eight centuries the gems in a deep red shade known as “pigeon’s blood” found in the…
Not long ago, the high jewelry presentations on and around Place Vendôme brought the semiannual couture shows to a dazzling finale. This summer, however, many of the biggest fireworks already have happened, with brands from Bulgari to Van Cleef & Arpels introducing their most exclusive collections in exotic locations. Major jewelry makers are increasingly adopting…
You may have worn the same gold-color cuff or silvery earrings every day since you bought them on vacation, but now the skin around the jewelry has become red and itchy. Allergies to metal accessories can appear without warning, sometimes brought on by a combination of summer heat and your body’s sweat. “Sweat can destabilize…
From heart emojis to hands held to form a heart, heart motifs abound at the moment, and the jewelry world has gotten the memo: heart-shape stones seem to be everywhere. The large heart-shape diamond now worn by Lauren Sánchez — reportedly estimated at 25 to 30 carats and the ring that Jeff Bezos used to…