I hope it brings good things for everyone. For those of you who could use last minute ideas for holiday gifts, I would strongly suggest a beautiful book. For me, there is no better way to spend an early cold or snowy morning than with a cup of hot chocolate (homemade with milk, Dutch-process cocoa, […]
Gem-laden treasures inspired by celestial wonders or found in nature’s earthen womb have found their match in the sea-worthy designs created by Van Cleef & Arpels. Oceanic motifs and its riches are revealed by waves of imaginative originality in this new high jewelry collection, christened L’Atlantide, which draws its narrative from the mythical island of […]
Coutorture.com will be featuring the excerpts from the book and it will be well worth a visit. Divided into women’s personal styles labeled The Classicists, The Bombshells, and The Ladies, HB editors also thought to include The Eclectics, those whose inner chic revels between the lines as well as those who are always looking fashion […]
The sale reached $49,827,926 yesterday. It is the highest total ever achieved for a jewelry sale at Sotheby’s New York. While I’d like to think that my creative efforts for their catalog (featured above) did the trick, the truth is that the jewelry was monumental in every possible way. For a jewelry writer, the subject-matter […]
This past weekend I attended the Initiatives in Art and Culture lectures at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York. Listening to Thom Browne fence questions about his penchant for unusual proportions and distinctly feminine details for his menswear lines, I had to wonder why Brooks Brothers bothered to have […]
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Lori Ettlinger Gross is a writer and jewelry historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Variety, Palm Beach Illustrated, Reuters.com, and InStyle.com, among other publications. Lori spent six years as the Estate Jewelry Editor for The Rapaport Diamond Report (2001−2007). Currently, she is a member of the Random House Speakers Bureau and lectures about jewelry and fashion. Lori made her television debut on MARTHA, February 2010 and she can often be heard on Martha Stewart Radio’s Morning Living (Sirius 112/XM 157). Her first book Brooches: Timeless Adornment (Rizzoli, May 2008) is available online at Amazon.com. This blog is a journal that explores and reports on the world of jewelry, from fashion, styling advice, and trends to contemporary collections and history.
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Requests for lectures and appearances can be directed to Kim Thornton at the Random House Speakers Bureau.
