“Talk to me, Harry Winston, tell me all about it!” That unforgettable line from Marilyn Monroe’s iconic performance of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes cemented Harry Winston’s name in popular culture forever.…
There’s something almost mythical about the Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs—these impossibly intricate jeweled treasures that once graced the palaces of Russia’s last emperors. And on December 2, 2025, one of the most breathtaking examples, The Winter Egg, will return to…
There are moments in jewelry when you see something that stops you completely—when a piece reaches across time and space to touch something deep within you. For me, that moment came when I first encountered Anna Hu’s La Rose Gracieuse…
Opals are the gemstones of fire, light, and mystery—captivating treasures that seem to hold entire galaxies within their depths. Unlike any other gemstone, opals shimmer with an ethereal play-of-color that shifts and dances with every movement, making each piece utterly…
There’s a particular kind of death that luxury brands inflict upon themselves, a slow suicide by a thousand iterations. It’s the death of mystique, the murder of impossibility, the systematic dismantling of everything that made something legendary in the first…
There are moments in the world of haute horlogerie when a timepiece transcends its functional purpose and becomes something far more profound—a wearable work of art that tells stories across centuries. Last week, Vacheron Constantin unveiled three spectacular new interpretations…
I’ve covered plenty of jewelry events over the years, but there was something electric in the air at the Salle des Étoiles at Monte-Carlo’s Sporting complex on October 25th. Perhaps it was the caliber of houses in attendance—Chanel, Tiffany, Bulgari,…
There’s something deeply romantic about a watch that was born from a queen’s commission. When Abraham-Louis Breguet created a timepiece for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and Napoleon’s sister, back in 1810, he couldn’t have known he was laying the…
I’ll admit it: when I first heard that Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami were reuniting for another collaboration, my heart did a little skip. It’s been over two decades since these two titans of art and luxury first joined forces,…
When I first laid eyes on Lladró’s new interpretation of The Guest, my breath caught in a way I did not anticipate. Porcelain, I’ve always believed, carries a quiet kind of magic, a delicacy that teeters between fragility and permanence.…