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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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Valerie Messika welcomed me into her bright white office, dressed impeccably in a white gauzy top and diamonds of her design. The office perched above the Messika Paris...

In early October of this year, Messika, and the Parisian luxury brand’s founder, Valerie Messika, were all over the headlines of lifestyle and fashion articles and plastered across...

Jewelry created and worn during the Mughal era connoted much more than a simple act of adornment; it represented status, prestige, alliances, rites of passage and other significant...

Talkative designer, Shinobu Marotta, had a career as a graphic designer before entering the world of fine jewelry. After embarking on developing skills in jewelry design and craftsmanship,...

For seventy years, Vendorafa has been cultivating excellence in the reputation of the “Made in Italy” distinction. Launched in 1951, the brand is owned by Augusto Ungarelli and...

Male celebs like Justin Beiber and Brooklyn Beckham have changed the game, throwing on diamond pieces with their cool streetwear looks. Diamonds have gone from feminine to masculine...
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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Jewelry house, Oscar Heyman, was founded in New York City in 1912 and has been designing and fabricating exquisite fine jewelry continuously ever since. The company has survived two world wars, the Great Depression...

After artist and long-time COUTURE designer, Alex Sepkus, passed away suddenly on September 5, 2021, the outpouring of mourning throughout the industry and among collectors was immediate. Alex’s work was singular. He was universally...

Las Vegas’s knack for pushing limits only starts at the roulette table. Case in point: the annual COUTURE jewelry show, where jewelry designers unveil their best designs and showcase new realms of diamond and...