In terms of social media oxygen consumed, not even Taylor Swift’s making it into the Super Bowl could compete with the weekend’s real main event: the very public drawing of battle lines between two titans of contemporary hip-hop. Within 72 hours, Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion debuted dis tracks aimed at each other with…
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“I am still bleeding a little,” Hannah Neeleman said. She was sitting in front of a glowing ring light in a Las Vegas hotel room, cradling a newborn, as a makeup artist hovered close by, eye-shadow brush in hand. Two weeks after giving birth to her eighth child, Ms. Neeleman, 33, said she no longer…
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Dr. Thomas Connelly has turned the cliché “million dollar smile” into reality. In 2021, the “Father of Diamond Dentistry” — as Rolling Stone named him — reconstructed Post Malone’s smile with 18 porcelain veneers, eight platinum crowns and two six-carat diamonds replacing the singer-songwriter’s upper canines. Just diamonds. The total cost: $1.6 million. “Posty needed…
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When The Times recently invited five independent jewelry designers for a morning of conversation, they all arrived wearing their own creations. “We are our brands,” as Bernard James, one of the jewelers, put it. “We represent what we make.” The designer, 32, wore, among other pieces, rings from his namesake brand’s Flora collection, inspired by…
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As the ultimate expressions of French savoir-faire and creativity, couture and high jewelry go hand in hand. More than a decade ago, high jewelry even helped save Couture Week. The fashion industry had been wondering whether couture could survive, given how few houses were staging runway shows. Then, in 2010, many of the most prominent…
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When Francesca Amfitheatrof, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director of watches and jewelry, started looking for a muse for her first fine jewelry collection for men, she didn’t choose a pop star, celebrity or influencer. Instead, she looked to the Vuitton family tree, landing on its lone third-generation heir who eventually took over the brand: Gaston-Louis Vuitton.…
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Boucheron’s Histoire de Style high jewelry collection, presented every January, is inspired by pieces in the house’s archives. But this year, for its fourth iteration, it also highlighted a little-known bit of history: the house’s founder, Frédéric Boucheron, was the son of a textile merchant who specialized in silks and lace. “When I looked at…
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The French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau always wore two Cartier Trinity rings stacked on his left pinkie. Even after his death in 1963, Cocteau’s name was so closely linked with the ring, made of three interlocking bands in yellow, white and rose gold, that he was often credited with designing or commissioning the piece.…
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“I’m obsessed,” Chloe Park said when she realized the woman entering the Goop Bond Street boutique in New York City where she was shopping was the jeweler Jennie Yoon. Ms. Yoon, 38, the founder of Kinn Studio in Los Angeles, was in town for a pop-up shop at Goop, where selections of her jewelry had…
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With its bows, tiny shells, and glass flowers and hearts, Yona Kohen’s beaded jewelry requires a shift of aesthetic gears for those more accustomed to discreet chain pendants and barely there huggies. “My idea was to create these incredibly intricate and narrative pieces,” Ms. Kohen, 26, said during a recent phone interview from her home…
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