To see my Roman­tic Jew­elry seg­ment on MARTHA, please click here.
You may also watch any of the other seg­ments and/or view the show in its entirety (FYI: all of Martha’s guests, myself included, share a spe­cial Valentine’s Day mem­ory at the very top of the hour)

Here is an announce­ment from Rizzoli’s pub­lic­ity depart­ment today:
We are pleased to announce that Lori Ettlinger Gross, author of Brooches: Time­less Adorn­ment, will be on MARTHA on Feb­ru­ary 8^th.
In NYC, MARTHA airs on WNBC/Channel 4 at 11am ET. Check other local list­ings for times and stations.

some of the season’s most com­pelling jew­els for sale will be in Boston next week at Skin­ner Inc. Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York will be host­ing their preview’s this com­ing Fri­day. There is noth­ing more fes­tively restora­tive than pour­ing over an auc­tion cat­a­log with a cup of some­thing warm and deli­cious. Star­bucks’ pep­per­mint hot […]

It was a cool, clear, autum­nal New York night on one at Saks Fifth. A three piece band was play­ing jazz in the back­ground. The hand­some Hut­ton Wilkin­son was sign­ing books and greet­ing all with his sig­na­ture exu­ber­ance and charm. And he kiss­ing those who have taken the time to stop by. My invi­ta­tion came […]

What does it mean when an arti­san insists he can do nature one bet­ter? It means that he should not only have the guts to ful­fill such a promise, but also do so with equal mas­tery. While many have prof­fered such puffery, Wal­lace Chan seems to have lived up to it. Even the fash­ion folk […]

I will be attend­ing the con­fer­ence tomor­row and tweet­ing live. Come fol­low all the events at www.twitter.com/LuxArtRocks.

Social media is the new black and with it comes some­one new to fol­low on Twit­ter: LuxArtRocks. You might rec­og­nize the logo but the cul­tur­ally well-informed tweeter will remain anony­mous this time around. Why? Because here you will find up-to-the-minute infor­ma­tion on all things bright, beau­ti­ful, boun­ti­ful, and a lit­tle bit brag­gado­cio too. There will […]

My story about the Car­men Marc Valvo show is posted on the first page of iFash­ion Net­work. Just one note, some­one at the web­site mis­la­beled the cap­tion that appears below my story and I am try­ing to have it cor­rected.
It should read:
Khaki suede safari jacket
Ivory satin chif­fon racer back tank top
Gun­metal metal­lic lame pants
Gold Jewelry […]

The Jew­el­ers of Amer­ica show at the Jacob Jav­its Cen­ter in Man­hat­tan is always a col­lage of influ­ences and a patch­work of pur­poses. It is in equal mea­sure bazaar, trade show, and parade of designer goods wait­ing for orders or edi­to­r­ial — whichever comes first. But some­times you dis­cover a dia­mond in the rough too.
There […]

As I walked along sunny Fifth Avenue yes­ter­day, tourists from around the world chat­ted away in every lan­guage, and busi­ness­men slowed their quick­ened pace just to get an extra minute in the warmth before head­ing up to their air-conditioned offices. Buses lum­bered and taxis zipped by; a smil­ing face floats away and a blur of […]