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…
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In London, Louisa Guinness Gallery collaborates with contemporary artists to create limited-edition jewelry, continuing the concept of art jewelry as established in the mid-20th century by the sculptors Alexander Calder and Claude Lalanne. Ms. Guinness’s gallery sells their own, along with pieces in silver, copper, porcelain, polyamide, glass and crystal as well as in gold…
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How much would you pay for Steve Jobs’s old Birkenstocks? “I’d pay to look at them,” Whoopi Goldberg said last week at a party for Birkenstock at Cipriani Wall Street. “About 75 cents,” she added. Mr. Jobs’s well-worn, tan suede Arizona sandals, which the Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs famously wore in the 1970s and…
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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…
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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…
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You know the scene: A child ambles downstairs in footed pajamas. She runs to unwrap her holiday presents and sheds joyful tears as she embraces a new puppy rescued from an overcrowded shelter. The music swells, hearts double in size and faith in humanity is restored. While a sweet thought, surprising a loved one with…
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At work with Leticia (left), who specializes in embroidery, and Norma (right), an expert in pattern making, cutting, and sewing “I always enjoy my time in the workshop and being present in every aspect of the production. Our space has a lot of natural light and great views, so it’s a perfect place for me…
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“Have you been to Club Med before?” asks the woman at the front desk of Club Med Québec Charlevoix, as she clips a maroon bracelet with a white disk bearing the company’s trident trademark around my wrist. This magic token will unlock the offerings of the all-inclusive ski resort over the next three days. “Usually…
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But by 2014, Taos Ski Valley was a faded jewel. The New Mexico resort had lost approximately 40 percent of its skiers since its heyday in the early 1990s. Financier and conservationist Louis Bacon bought the ski area in 2014, and chief executive officer David Norden arrived two years later. Mr. Norden took a novel…
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I remember screaming at the top of my lungs on my way to get my first mammogram a few days later. The story of my life was outlined for me now — only problem was, it was a horror movie. They called me a “previvor,” and from a medical risk-management perspective, there was no difference…
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