Food helped bring Laura McDonald and Harsh Shah together. So it was only fitting for him to propose with a bowl of custom-designed corzetti.While getting ready to meet Harsh Shah at Hoi Polloi Brewing, a taproom and lounge in Berkeley, Calif., on a November evening in 2019, Laura ...
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The Elizabeth Taylor extravaganza influenced designs for decades. Soon, a new remake may have us all wearing scarabs again.Sixty years ago this summer, production finally wrapped on “Cleopatra,” a movie more famous for a scandalous love affair offscreen than the love story from antiquity that was all but ...
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From necklaces to headpieces, NFTs allow owners to accessorize virtually with flair.Last Christmas, Lorena Bello was at home making a video for social media to promote a new pair of earrings she had designed. “My mother was behind me and she was watching just my phone,” Ms. Bello, ...
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A jewelers’ cooperative crowdsourced 100 pounds of castoffs and is turning them into upcycled creations.For four straight weeks, packages arrived daily. There were large boxes and FreshDirect sacks stuffed with Ziploc bags, velvet cases and Tiffany & Company pouches. Some contained a single clip-on earring, bits of tarnished ...
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“I tell women they’ve got to have thick skin in order to exist in some worlds,” one of them said.It may seem logical that an industry that relies on female consumers would be led by women, but that is not the reality in jewelry.“Women are at the front ...
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In the 1800s, Oscar Massin made jewelry for queens. Now the brand will focus on lab-grown diamonds and sustainable practices.PARIS — A pioneer of 19th-century French jewelry is making a 21st-century comeback.In recent years, Oscar Massin’s name may have been recognized only by collectors and jewelry historians, but ...
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Ami Doshi Shah “expands expectations of what jewelry is,” one museum curator said.Sitting in her Nairobi studio for a video interview in late February, Ami Doshi Shah was surrounded by displays of her bold, sculptural jewelry.There was the eye-catching necklace with a four-inch-wide folded leather collar, lines of ...
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David Kibbe, an image consultant who got his start in the 1980s, has watched his body-typing system take off with a new, digitally native audience.David Kibbe is hardly surprised that his method for enhancing one’s beauty has stood the test of time. “There’s nothing like this, and there ...
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The staple of children’s parties, awkward school-auditorium dances, and sporting events has taken on another life.On the brink of 40, Gev Danielian could have gotten a Porsche; he could have gambled or had too much to drink. Instead, in June 2021, he planned a prudent celebration at his ...
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It is difficult to buy a new Rolex these days. And the secondary market is booming into the stratosphere.A year ago, pre-owned 18-karat-gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytonas with a green dial — nicknamed the “John Mayer” by aficionados, in honor of the guitar-wielding watch geek who helped make it ...
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It is difficult to buy a new Rolex these days. And the secondary market is booming into the stratosphere.A year ago, pre-owned 18-karat-gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytonas with a green dial — nicknamed the “John Mayer” by aficionados, in honor of the guitar-wielding watch geek who helped make it ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“While I am grateful for an ever-deepening pool of queer love stories, watching them in adulthood does not sate the deep thirst for direct experience I felt in my youth.”Brian ReaGarrett Schlichte was exactly twice the age of his ...
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What happens when a beauty brand’s collaborators become too controversial, makeup trends change, and Gen Zers flock to TikTok?The James Charles Palette, from the makeup company Morphe, had it all: 39 eye shadows in glittery pinks and blues, audacious neons and nonshimmery neutrals — and a solid gold ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.“The Best Kind of Smile”Our schedules were opposite: office and restaurant. But then the world shut down, and the dining rooms were closed. When Aiesha would normally be waiting tables, we were riding our bikes through ...
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