I find bras totally uncomfortable, hot and itchy, for both work and leisure. But looking around, I seem to be in the minority. What are the rules for going braless? Is it OK to show my nips, or is it rude? — Eddye, Madison, Wis. You are not the only one having an anti-bra moment.…
“Geneva is just a natural step,” said Stephen Brooks, the chief executive of Phillips auction house, best known for buying and selling art and design. “We’re signaling to the marketplace that we want to be significant in this space.” On Nov. 6, Phillips has scheduled the first of what it said will be twice-yearly jewelry…
For Jenny Klatt and Stephanie Wynne Lalin, the founders and designers of the New York-based fine jewelry brand Jemma Wynne, inspiration has always come from their surroundings. And for their latest collection, that turned out to be an escalator. They didn’t have a “eureka!” moment on one, though. “We thought,” Ms. Lalin said, “that it…
Experimental goldsmith techniques and creative design produced from 1965 to 1985 are to be showcased this fall when Chaumet opens “Un Âge d’Or” (“A Golden Age”), an exhibition in the salons above the jeweler’s Place Vendôme boutique in Paris. “The 1970s was a very interesting era in jewelry, and specifically for Chaumet,” said Vanessa Cron,…
Dan Dower wants to change our attitude toward bees. “Part of the message is making people trust bees,” said Mr. Dower, who is one half of the jewelry brand Dower & Hall. “Be friendly towards bees. See them as friends, not as just things that sting.” This spring the brand introduced a Queen Bee necklace,…
Visitors who missed the blockbuster Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum here earlier this year will still be able to spot plenty of pearls among the half-dozen of his paintings still on display in the museum’s Gallery of Honor through Oct. 10. But for anyone interested in learning about diamonds, a better bet is just a…
The revived brand presented its first pieces publicly in January, during Couture Week, at its Rue St.-Honoré headquarters. The designs by Ms. de Laage, in the style of Rouvenat, included the Bolt Orissa pendant in 18-karat yellow gold with diamonds and red spinels and a tassel made with rubies from the Orissa mine in India,…
About five dozen people lost jobs when Stitch Fix ceased operations at the factory and mill in November, Mr. Ford said. Some of them, he added, had been working at the sites for decades. “All those skills would have been lost,” he said. By March, the facilities had reopened as Buck Mason Knitting Mills, and…
I was 15 the first time it happened. I was staring at the empty apartment and wondering what would happen if the police figured out what my dad had done. For years, my family had been living in a commercial building — illegal for residential use — above my father’s Pilates studio. He had opened…
Soy musulmán. Mi posible suegro, Bob, es cristiano evangélico. Yo quería pasar el resto de mi vida con su hija, Jillian, pero Bob tenía serias dudas sobre eso. “¿Y si ejerce su hombría musulmana contra ti?”, le preguntó a Jillian. Cuando Jillian me contó el comentario de su padre, pensé: “Casi ni tengo hombría. ¿Cómo…