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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...
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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...
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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...

Growing 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...

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...
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...
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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...

During the 1990s, small jewelry was dubbed “personal,” mainly because the pieces were almost too subtle for anyone to see besides the person wearing them. Well now, like slip dresses and supermodels, there’s been...

Italy boasts many traditions for which the country is celebrated: Wine, coffee, chocolate, the vibrancy and warmth of Italian people, some of the most iconic and seminal art ever created and, of course, jewelry...