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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...
The Story
GURHAN designer, Gurhan Orhan, is a true renaissance man. His past lives include working as a DJ, a nightclub and restaurant owner and a watch tinkerer, and his...

Designer Dries Criel has a simple mission: redefine classics in a contemporary form. Through studying, re-imagining and revising classic lines and shapes, he enhances their beauty and blends...

New to COUTURE this year, Leigh Maxwell designer, Jennifer Maxwell, believes in jewelry’s inherent ability to tell stories and forge connections. In her travels across the globe in...

Greek artist Nikos Koulis applies his profound understanding of design, artistry, gemology and traditional jewelry making techniques in the creation of each piece in his eponymous collection. With a...

The designer behind Graziela, Grazelia Kaufman, grew up in Brazil surrounded by that country’s historically abundant gem deposits; she describes her backyard as a “gemological treasure.” Now living in...

The history of Antonini dates back over 100 years. Founded in 1919 in Milan, Italy, the company quickly gained a following among Milanese and Italian aristocracy, as well as opera...
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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Mark and Josette Patterson have been quietly collaborating and spearheading innovations under the Mark Patterson brand name for over 35 years. The husband and wife team first met while studying at the Gemological Institute of America...

ILA is a design collaboration born out of the combined artistic acumen of the brother and sister team, Vikas and Ila Sodhani. While their designs are sleek and contemporary, and the brand is a harbinger...

It was while working together for another fine jewelry brand that designer Mollie Faith Good and her business partner, Stephanie Walters Abramow, discovered that they had a shared ideology when it came to both...