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News Edit: 10 May 2020
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As we find our 'new normal' here is a round up of last week's international jewellery news...
2021 Baselworld Watch And Jewelry Show Is Cancelled
Forbes: The MCH Group, which owns and operates the annual Baselworld jewelry and watch trade show, has canceled its 2021 fair in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the mass exodus of its most important watch exhibitors.
Get creative with these home teaching aids from the jewellery community
Wallpaper: Though not necessarily intended for teaching purposes (indeed, the meditative art of colouring in is as enjoyable for adults), we have found these creative pursuits a help in home schooling during lockdown.
Jeweller sparkles online and now sees stores reopening
Independent: Shares in jewellery maker Pandora rose yesterday as higher online sales and a strong return of consumers to reopened stores in Germany encouraged investors, despite a steep decline in first-quarter operating profit.
Pandora jewelry stores lose 3.2 million euros in the first quarter due to the impact of the coronavirus
Industry Trend: The Danish jewelry chain Pandora registered a net loss of 24 million crowns (3.2 million euros) in the first quarter of 2020, compared to profits of 797 million crowns (106.8 million euros) recorded in the same period of the year Last, as reported by the company this Tuesday.
Retired jeweller and wife die with coronavirus within days of each other
Wales Online: Richard Tracey ran a successful group of jewellery shops around south Wales.
The rainbow jewellery under £100 guaranteed to brighten your mood
Standard: These snazzy steals are guaranteed smile-inducers.
Where I Work: Elisa, a jewellery maker working at home and in a workshop in Geneva
Metro: Our mini series Where I Work is looking at how the coronavirus pandemic is changing our working lives – as well as nosing around people’s snazzy home offices.
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Tired Of Netflix? Try Gemflix
Vogue: Gem X, a private social club for jewellery enthusiasts, has taken its insider’s look at all things bejewelled to Zoom. With Gemflix, the club is making its lockdown presentations from some of the world’s top jewellery experts free-of-charge and available to all, and providing some welcome distraction from the news with fabulous jewels and countless tales of craftsmanship and history.
What Jewelry Designer Roxanne Assoulin Wears While WFH
Yahoo: In a bi-weekly series, we're interviewing female executives, founders, CEOs—basically, boss ladies—on their "power suit" a.k.a. the outfit they wear every day for easy dressing to conquer whatever the job throws at them.
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Daily Mail: New Zoom essential? Elegant earrings
Shaun Leane: McQueen’s jewellery disruptor
The Week: If you were one of the half a million visitors to the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition at London’s V&A museum in 2015, you will have seen Shaun Leane’s iconic coiled corset (below) at close range.
8 precious blue jewellery pieces you’ll love
Prestige Online: The colour of water, the ocean and sky, blue gemstones have long been a favourite with royalty and revered as symbols of peace, wisdom, truth and power. Here are eight remarkable pieces that showcase the calm-inducing hue.
More than 50 homes planned for Jewellery Quarter site
Express and Star: Plans for 57 new homes, a commercial building and a refurbished 19th century villa in the Jewellery Quarter are set to get the green light.
Historic buildings in Jewellery Quarter to be demolished to make way for 57 new homes
Birmingham: The city council's planning committee has approved an application which will see the 19th century Heaton House refurbished.
Elsa Peretti Creates Special Edition Bone Cuffs for Tiffany & Co. to Mark Her 80th Birthday
Town and Country: Liza Minnelli, Catherine Deneuve, and Margot Robbie all love this bracelet. You will too.
The Affordable Designer Jewellery Brands You Need To Know
The Times: It’s the jewellery holy grail — great design at an affordable price. Jessica Diamond spotlights the cult brand with a bold new approach and shares more names to note.
Tiffany & Co.’s Reed Krakoff on jewellery for everyday — including diamonds
Vogue: As the jeweller launches the T1 collection globally, Krakoff talks modern luxury and wearing jewellery with jeans.
An Interview With Tiffany & Co.'s Reed Krakoff
Elle: The brand's artistic director discusses Tiffany's covetable new 'T1' collection.
Cool as Connell: the golden rules of men's jewellery
Independent: The star of Normal People has been Paul Mescal's neck chain, which has its own Instagram fan account. If bling for blokes is summer's hot trend, can you nail it, asks Tanya Sweeney.
Flowers bloom in sparkling black and white for Van Cleef & Arpels’ Cosmos Collection
Prestige Online: Nature is no stranger to Van Cleef & Arpels. Delve into the French jeweller’s celebrated archive and you will discover innumerable forms and stories inspired by natural creatures and plants. The Cosmos collection, latest in the line of Van Cleef & Arpels’ celebrated petal-shaped jewellery, brings together the beauty of flowers, lustrous natural hues and the Maison’s innovative jewellery-making savoire-faire.
Dazzling Emerald Jewellery To Distract You This Spring
Vogue: Fans of May’s birthstone are said to have included Cleopatra herself. Fanatical about emeralds, jewellery lore has it that the Ancient Egyptian ruler split one enormous stone down the middle and gave one half to her lover, Marc Antony, keeping the other half for herself. She’s also said to have presented visiting dignitaries with her likeness carved into emeralds as gifts.
Isabel Bonner’s Sculptural Jewelry Doubles as Decor to Brighten the Mood During Quarantine
Vogue: Putting on jewelry to shelter in place seems slightly over-the-top. After seven weeks of self-isolating, statement earrings and chunky bracelets just feel superfluous to needs. There is one stylist and designer, however, who thinks of jewelry in a different way, especially right now.
Isabel Bonner, the Stylist Making Jewellery That Doubles as Sculpture
Another: Isabel Bonner’s eponymous label takes her fascinations – from modernist furniture to the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and Donald Judd – and translates them into jewellery that looks good both on and off the body.
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik wear matching evil eye bracelets by celebrity Lebanese jeweller
The National: George Khalife gifted the parents-to-be the pieces to ward of negativity, a symbol familiar to Hadid and his 'Middle Eastern descent'.
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