Before the Oscars, the Parties Are Everything

LOS ANGELES — Late Saturday afternoon, the best actress nominee Michelle Yeoh — decked out in a shimmering pink Armani top, a chunky diamond-encrusted, oval-shaped bracelet on one wrist and a six-figure, skeleton-dial Richard Mille timepiece on the other — stood by a glass staircase in front of Giorgio Armani’s mammoth Beverly Hills boutique. In…

Where the Band Kids Are

Contrary to what the movies will tell you, the marching band at Ravenna High School is pretty well respected. This year’s homecoming king and queen were both members. “It definitely helps that we have a small school, because we’ve all known each other our whole lives,” said Trinity Dunch, 17, who plays the trombone. “Everybody…

Get Your Tiara Ready. The Coronation Is Coming.

“We have the Anglesey tiara in our stock at the moment,” he added, “which was worn by the Marchioness of Anglesey to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, and by her mother to King Edward’s coronation.” (The price is available on request.) And while the coronation preparations are centered in London, some jewelers on the Continent — particularly…

Brilliance in the Sonoran Desert

TUCSON, Ariz. — To experience the gemstone trade in all its polyglot glory, jewelers from around the world have a beloved annual ritual: For about three weeks every year, starting in late January, they flock to this city in the Sonoran Desert. That is when tens of thousands of people with a stake in the…

Jewelry With a Focus on Nature

The fashion designer Carolina Herrera met the Spanish jeweler Luz Camino 20 years ago, through an agapanthus floral brooch. Ms. Herrera received the large sculpted metal bloom as a gift, and she said it led her to begin collecting work by the Madrid-based designer. “Whenever I wear one of Luz’s brooches on my lapel, it…