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 chocolate […]

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 […]

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… ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 […]

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 […]

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with World Gold Coun­cil, Paulette and Den­zel Wash­ing­ton, Susan Saran­don, Whoppi Gold­berg, Rachel Ray, Christina Apple­gate, Debra Mess­ing, and other celebri­ties have turned the lyri­cal and leafy into a golden oppor­tu­nity for giv­ing. The orna­ments are designed by a star who worked with a renowned jew­elry designer, and each will be sold by […]

Pretty pink paper-chains on the Louis Vuit­ton run­way last week in Paris. Mais, c’est un papier lune, Mon­sieur Jacobs…oui? Paper — pli­able, light, communicative…what else do you know that has such sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics? Jew­elry that looks like it came from the stuff of trees, or even recy­cled news­pa­pers; the con­cept has inspired stu­dio artists. There […]