The front row of the press pre­view today was a who’s who of fash­ion journalism’s elite and included Anna Win­tour and exhi­bi­tion sub­ject, Miuc­cia Prada, they sat a mere three rows in front of me, Sally Singer, Hamish Bowles and Susy Menkes (in pur­ple from head to toe) two rows ahead, and every­one else was […]

This past Fri­day I had a quiet, unin­ter­rupted view of the offer­ings from the upcom­ing Huguette Clark and Mrs. Lily Safra auc­tions. Chrisitie’s New York will be sell­ing the jew­els of Ms. Clark’s estate on April 17^th. The auc­tion pre­views were set up quite beau­ti­fully, as well as thought­fully; each auction’s prop­erty has it’s own […]

Today it was announced by Van Cleef & Arpels that a dia­mond, plat­inum, and white gold diadème (french spelling) will have a role in the greatly antic­i­pated film, MIRROR MIRROR. Cre­ated in 1976, this remark­ably lovely jewel boasts one 144 dia­monds total­ing 77.34 carats. The head piece was on dis­play at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design […]

I can’t believe JEWELHISTORY.COM is almost five years old! March 1^st marks this mile­stone. This blog began as a labor of love, a way to talk about jew­elry that didn’t exist on the net — or any­where else. I’ve seen my thoughts reprinted and bor­rowed through­out the years and all I can say is a […]

With the red car­pet rolling out tonight for the Acad­emy Awards, I’m not quite sure what to antic­i­pate in terms of jew­elry. Thus far, it’s been a sea­son of under­stated, taste­ful lux­ury. Which is lovely if you are doing din­ner the­ater and drinks, but for this evening’s Oscar pre­sen­ta­tion, I’m hop­ing we see some star-quality […]

Jew­elry for this New York Fash­ion Week was there, and not. Oscar de la Renta cre­ated a bodice ornament/necklace and took the theme to the tex­tile of his clothes — and to great effect. The jewel was either blown up to life-sized pro­por­tions or shrunken down and trans­lated into a small, foulard-type print. There was […]

What­ever could the title above be talk­ing about? For those who are watch­ing the game just for the gua­camole, tacos, and faji­tas, or want some­thing to do until Down­ton Abbey airs later tonight — and I fall some­where within these two camps, today is Super­bowl XLVI — the Giants vs. the Patri­ots. Being a dyed-in-the-wool […]

The Paris cou­ture shows for spring, that is to say Armani Prive, Chanel, and Jean Paul Gaultier, made an argu­ment for boldly col­ored jew­elry, ways to acces­sorize an allur­ing neck­line, and the appeal of prim­i­tive Mod­ernism. When design­ers choose not com­plete their looks with jew­elry or any­thing else, I some­times won­der how secure they are […]

Our son and web devel­oper, Josh Gross, was inter­viewed by BBC5LIVE’S Jamil­lah Knowles about his launch of HOPPER — a web app that allows you to save links to images, text, and files to a cloud instead of send­ing them to your already over­stuffed email box. It’s FREE, and has been the solu­tion to what […]

Last night’s event was, how shall I put this…eclectic? The color of the gowns ran in oppo­si­tions, from ethe­real whites and ivories to deep jewel tones. The bright, true red on Dianna Agron and Stacy Kiebler was acces­sorized suc­cinctly. Agron wore a mix of period pieces — nine­teenth cen­tury ear­rings and ring and bracelets from […]