“It was not a traditional wedding, it was more like a party!” said Marina Pejovic, who married Vuk Stojkovic in front of 200 people in a Belgrade restaurant in 2017. (The groom wore pink.) “When my husband and I decided to get married, I didn’t care about anything except that Nenad would make the wedding…
Introducing a jewelry box had “always been a topic of discussion,” said Andi Lee, the managing director of ChloBo, a British brand that makes demi-fine jewelry and is known for its stacking styles. That talk is turning into action on Friday, as the brand is scheduled to debut its first model: a cylindrical case that…
Gabrielle Greiss was wearing a silver cuff that looked like claws clutching her right wrist. Her short silver necklace also resembled claws, this time reaching for the dangling two-inch figure of a rodent. “It’s ‘The Lion and the Rat,’” Ms. Greiss, 51, explained recently during an interview at her apartment-atelier. She was referring to one…
To cap the celebration of its 150th birthday last year, Piaget did not create a book, the usual anniversary publication of choice at luxury houses. Instead, it introduced Piaget Society, an oversized magazine it now plans to publish annually. “There was something about bringing out a magazine rather than a classic book that felt more…
For many prospective buyers, however, jade’s myriad quality points can be confounding. Evaluated on its color, transparency and texture, the material comes in two forms, jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite is the name for a kind of pyroxene rock that some in the gemological community insist should be called by its traditional Chinese name, fei cui….
VERBAL Jacob Arabo, because of his links to the music world. He’s done it all — jewelry, watches. He made the celebrity jewelry scene first. He worked with Nigo, Pharrell Williams and created colorful pieces using different technology. He first started with a little booth in New York, making custom jewelry for artists and then…
I lost track of the number of cars. I lost track of the number of sparkly fringed leather chaps. I lost track of the number of butts hanging out. About a third of the way through the Dsquared2 fashion show in Milan on Tuesday evening, I lost my ability to keep track of anything. This…
Ancora red is out; emerald green is in. Or so it seemed during the Gucci show at the opening of Milan Fashion Week, where it was as if Sabato De Sarno, the designer who abruptly left his job earlier this month, had practically never even been there. Fashion, it turns out, is fully capable of…
On Valentine’s Day, the streets of Manhattan were a charming sight: So many people were wearing reds and pinks that conjured the spirit of a day known for romantic dates and fancy dinners. But few that I saw looked more eclectic than Fée Brandt, a 24-year-old author and illustrator of children’s books. Ms. Brandt lit…
First of Its Kind, Last of Its Kind tells the story of an exceptional accessory and the archival piece that inspired it. As a teenager in the late 1890s, Guccio Gucci traveled from Florence to London, where he soon began to work as a porter at the Savoy hotel. Inspired by the memory of the…