Walked the Jew­el­ers of Amer­ica Show yes­ter­day at the bustling Jacob Jav­its Cen­ter in NYC. The con­ven­tion cen­ter was host­ing two other exhi­bi­tions, The NYT’s Travel Show and The Inter­na­tional Restau­rant and Food Ser­vice Show. Need­less to say, it was a com­pletely fun day for those of us who can­not live on bread alone. So […]

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)

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 […]

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 […]

1stdibs.com, long a des­ti­na­tion for those whose tastes in fur­ni­ture and the dec­o­ra­tive arts may be as dis­parate as a pair of circa 1740 Chi­nese Kang Xsi vases or a match­ing set of Paul Evans Cityscape Shelv­ing Units from the 1970s, has been show­cas­ing a jew­elry depart­ment since Octo­ber 2008. What is sur­pris­ing are the […]

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 […]

6÷10÷09: My seg­ment has been resched­uled due to ill­ness. Date and time are to be deter­mined. Our mid­dle son, Joel, not his older brother Joshua, who was just in Japan, was diag­nosed with Flu Type A on Mon­day — Joel is tak­ing Tam­i­flu and doing much, much bet­ter, thank good­ness. How­ever, I seem to have […]

Note: There will be two posts today from Cannes, one on the main page and the other on The Jew­elry Styl­ist…
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The Cannes Film Fes­ti­val is in ses­sion this week and Chopard, a spon­sor­ing part­ner of the event, casts its best baubles on celebri­ties from around the world:
Nor­mally I’m not a fan of the elab­o­rate demi-parure (matching […]

Last week’s Met Gala at The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art in New York was its usual photo-op affair for celebri­ties and mod­els, with empha­sis on those taller-than-thou since they were the focus of the new exhi­bi­tion, Mod­els as Muse: Embody­ing Fash­ion. Vet­eran designer and model men­tor, Azze­dine Alaia, was not included in the show and […]