Craig BarrittGetty Images There is art. There is commerce. And then there is Art Basel, which began as a convention for gallerists, and somehow spun into a week-long rave for people who think Damien Hirst makes the only Shark Tank worth watching. This year, fashion brands went particularly hard on collaborations and co-signs, which means…
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Inez &Vinoodh While the cold weather gives us an excuse to spend copious amounts of time curled up indoors wearing cozy sweatsuits and slippers, the best holiday party dresses will make you excited to get dolled up (and possibly head outside!) this winter. Festive gatherings with friends and loved ones can be simply magical—and undoubtedly…
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I’ve loaded my pantry with flour and sugar, and my fridge is bursting with 10 pounds of butter. Let the holiday baking begin! I always put together cookie boxes, swapping in different kinds year after year. For this holiday season, Yewande Komolafe made things easier for us by creating a stunning cookie box with six…
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Phone cameras were rolling, so the TikTok influencer bent her knees, adjusted her stance and swung her club at a golf ball that had been placed near the edge of a precipice at the Grand Canyon. The ball soared. The club did, too, after it flew out of her hand. “How did that happen,” asked…
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At the height of the lockdowns in 2020, Katey Brunini, a jewelry designer in Southern California, did what many jewelers stuck at home did during those early months of the pandemic: She rifled through her safe in search of materials for her next collection. “I had a suite of 100-million-year-old Burmese faceted amber pieces that…
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For 75 years the Italian jewelry house Bulgari has created and recreated the image of a snake in its jewelry and watches — and more recently, in its accessories, with the reptile’s distinctive ovoid head appearing on everything from handbags to eyeglasses. The serpent has rewarded that devotion by becoming the house’s muse and best…
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In the 1970s, when Jaymus Perry was growing up on the Navajo Nation reservation near Buell Park, Ariz., he and his siblings used to fill coffee cans with the raw peridots and chrome pyrope garnets that they found and sold the gems to local trading posts for spending money. “The sooner we could fill up…
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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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