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While French designers have always had a presence at COUTURE, around 2023, their numbers truly became remarkable. What was even more extraordinary than their ubiquitousness was the astounding...
The StoryWhile French designers have always had a presence at COUTURE, around 2023, their numbers truly became remarkable. What was even more extraordinary than their ubiquitousness was the astounding...
The StoryWe are thrilled to announce the debut of the Luminaries by COUTURE to our 2024 event. A representation of six of the seven mentees who make up the...
The designer behind ZAHN-Z Fine Jewelry, Hiba Husayni, displays a softspoken, quiet demeanor that runs contrary to her fierce determination and inexhaustible spirit. Growing up in a small...
The work of Ilium Wing designer, Ama McKinley, is a representation of an exploration of jewelry’s transformational and transcendent capabilities and its profound place in the narrative of...
As a teenager, the designer behind Adore Adorn, Sasha Flynn, struggled with fitting in. Of African and Lebanese descent, when Sasha’s family moved from Chicago to much smaller...
While she had always been drawn to creative pursuits and was a self-described “kid that liked pretty, shiny things,” as an immigrant of Jamaican descent, Alexia Connellan felt compelled to...
For designer Bliss Lau, who grew up in Honolulu, art has always been associated with fun. Growing up, her mother, an art educator, taught Bliss how to see...
When Elizabeth “Beth Anne” Bonanno and Joel Cheatwood, co-founders of luxury brand development agency, The Gems Project, contemplate adding to their already robust roster of designer fine jewelry clients, they take into account a...
The StoryGrowing up in Dallas, designer Casey Perez was always a bookish, brainy type. She had also always known she was a creative, yet she kept that part of her hidden away, respecting the unspoken...
Since first partnering with Platinum Guild International (PGI) to launch the COUTURE Platinum Spotlight program in 2022, there has been a significant proliferation of platinum and other cool metals among the fashion elite. And...
Argentina-born, New York City-based artist Rosario Navia is debuting her diamond and 18k gold collection in COUTURE’s Design Atelier this year. Her pieces reimagine diamond essential jewelry with unexpected silhouettes and imaginative combinations of...