Melanie Grant, who spearheaded Sotheby’s ‘Brilliant and Black’ exhibition, has been named executive director of the Responsible Jewellery Council.Melanie Grant, known in the jewelry world as a journalist, author and curator, is adding a management role to that list. Beginning on Monday, she will serve as the executive ...
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LA TRINIDAD, Mexico — Héctor Montes has been around opals his entire life and has held a concession from the Mexican government to mine the stone for 40 years. But at 76, he said he could still feel a rush of adrenaline when he picked up a raw ...
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After a multimillion-dollar renovation, developers are betting the 225,000-square-foot Time Century Jewelry Center will help turn the area into a luxury destination.MIAMI — Early last year, Vlad Yunatanov, owner of the high-end Manhattan jeweler Alexander Sparks, started looking in the Miami area for a suitable location to open ...
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Fewer major houses chose to present collections in Paris this season, but independent jewelers are still turning heads with original pieces.PARIS — The couture calendar is filled with shows by renowned houses and newcomers alike this week, but the jewelry presentations that traditionally round out this semiannual showcase ...
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To help reduce clothing waste, two mothers in San Antonio started a small business reselling used children’s clothes.This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry.In a San Antonio garage, two millennial mothers blast Avril Lavigne over ...
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To help reduce clothing waste, two mothers in San Antonio started a small business reselling used children’s clothes.This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry.In a San Antonio garage, two millennial mothers blast Avril Lavigne over ...
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Lots donated to the institution’s fund-raiser range from an Anselm Kiefer painting to a Chaumet diamond and pearl necklace.For the first time since its founding in the 17th century, the Paris Opera has organized a fund-raising auction.France’s premier opera and ballet company receives less than half of its ...
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Fashion weeks offer up such a glut of the newest, latest, coolest, costliest, most insane, most fire and sometimes least obtainable objects that you might think they’d make monks of men’s wear experts. Yet, like gear heads, guys who look at clothes occupationally also geek out in their ...
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A single mother, alone with a toddler in a foreign country, finds community during Covid — and then creates one for others.My ex was a bad husband but a good horse trainer. When we met, he had just bought a pony for 50 euros that the seller swore ...
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At a Brooklyn club, fans of the Netflix series “Wednesday” showed off their takes on the pigtailed heroine’s signature moves in a midnight competition.On a Brooklyn street dotted with auto repair garages, a line of young women wearing black ruffled dresses, black chokers, little black backpacks and Doc ...
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The title robot — reminiscent of the loyal but messy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progress for a genre with a shameful history.When the new killer robot movie “M3gan” opened this month, it sold $30.2 million in tickets, right behind “Avatar: The Way ...
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Why would we even want her to?Madonna has once again infiltrated the pop culturesphere. The 64-year-old singer announced her 12th world tour — a spin across 40 cities and through four decades of hits entitled “Celebration” — via a five-minute black and white video that shows her hosting ...
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A reader eager to have a child before she turns 40 doesn’t know what to make of a new love interest’s silence when conversation turns to the future.I am a single woman in my late 30s. I am also a neurosurgeon, and my medical training ate up 15 ...
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The privately owned Swiss brand dominates the market by virtually every measure. Will it swallow up resales, too?There is a saying in the high-end watch trade that there are only two kinds of watchmakers: Rolex and everyone else.The privately owned, Geneva-based brand dominates the industry by virtually every ...
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