The Edit: Jewelry for a Cause
Ask pretty much any member of the COUTURE community if they support a charity or a cause, and you’ll get a heartfelt pitch about at least one organization...
Ask pretty much any member of the COUTURE community if they support a charity or a cause, and you’ll get a heartfelt pitch about at least one organization...
Celebrated for designing and crafting spectacular jewelry, COUTURE designers and brands are rarely recognized for an important contribution they make to society on a regular basis—shepherding people through...
Whether I’m traveling or at home in New York City, one of my favorite things to do is visit jewelry stores. While this is hardly surprising given my...
Writing a story about meaningful gems featuring the work of COUTURE’s talented designers and brands is a daunting task. The craftsmanship, ingenuity and imaginativeness that exemplifies this community’s...
Asking COUTURE’s designers and brands to send us images that evoke this month’s theme, “Back to Nature,” is sort of like asking for images of “diamond jewelry” to...
Pearls, June’s birthstone, have long been associated with characteristics such as purity, sweetness and innocence. Wearing pearls, as lore goes, can bring one inner calm, peace and an...
Whenever looking at particularly gem-y gemstones, it’s hard not to think, “That looks good enough to eat!” Watermelon tourmalines that look like, well, watermelon, garnets that resemble Jolly...
When she wrote her “Love Letters” trend report in December of 2021, author, historian, curator and founder and editorial director of The Adventurine, Marion Fasel, admitted that initial...
In her companion book to the exhibition she curated for The American Museum of Natural History, “Beautiful Creatures,” author and historian Marion Fasel points to “Love of the...