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...Chaumet’s four-part series includes ear cuffs of feather-engraved rose-gold and diamonds, a hair ornament inspired by a swoop of soaring swallows, and a Disney princess-style tiara that converts into brooches...
...Months later, Louis Vuitton unveiled its Miami store, with a sculptural, bone-white façade — dubbed the Diamond Facade — whose pattern was designed by the Wanders studio as a nod to the house’s leatherwork...
...Its rhodium-plated white gold tiara with spray motif is set with more than 24 carats of rose-cut, pear-shaped diamonds in a wishbone style....
...Ocean has made regular appearances in the front row of Abloh’s Louis Vuitton and Off-White presentations, and both men are self-styled, phenomenally successful polymaths....
...Maria Cristina Buccellati’s treasured heirloom is a 1929 silver and gold bracelet set with rose- and brilliant-cut diamonds....
...“Five years ago, a black guy with a pipe got arrested; now the police walk past a white guy with a needle in his arm,” he says....
...Why not call the tower The Diamond, I ask, in reference to Bentley’s shape and black diamond motif? The brand is a short-cut, he explained....
...Next comes a five-strand draped diamond necklace, echoing the multi-row pearl and diamond ornaments that typically covered a maharaja’s chest; at the centre of each strand is a single diamond embedded in...
...A blonde woman in her seventies, wearing a white jacket adorned with diamond butterfly brooches, hangs on his arm. “This is the wonderful JJ,” Kramer says, introducing us. “Say hello to Jemima Kelly....
...A rifle papier-mâchéd in American cash with bullets filled with blood, heroin, gold and diamonds....
...The centrepiece was a gorget-style choker with a 19.31-carat sapphire set in a mesh of white gold, sapphires and 1,600 diamonds....
...For her DSM x Diamond Foundry collaboration she has gone in a different direction: simple linear earrings, with diamonds whizzing like stars across their white gold base....
...On floor after floor of Dharmanandan Diamonds’ soaring grey headquarters in central Surat, rows of workers are hunched in silent concentration as they guide millions of dollars worth of tiny gems through...
...They are gold three-quarter hoops set with diamonds and rubies on one side, and diamonds and emeralds on the other. They are sophisticated but not too dressy and I wear them all the time....
...Sweaters and knitted jackets came with pleasing broad horizontal stripes of red, white or blue with black....
...Clayton bats back a picture of her own arm in a white shirt with dark stripes, hand reaching toward the striated keys of a piano....
...Many of the designs are as noteworthy as the personalities who wore them, for example a platinum and diamond rose clip brooch created for Princess Margaret in 1938....
...Out comes a Cartier diamond and pearl necklace, apparently worth £50,000. This is followed by a heavy Rolex watch with a gold face that shines like a huge clockwork coin....
...John Jacob Astor, one of the first dead to be hauled on board the Mackay Bennett, was found to have a great wad of money on his person as well as a diamond ring, a gold watch and a pair of gold cufflinks...
...The Monogram necklace – the clasp set in 18-carat rose gold with diamonds – has five different diameters of Akoya pearls (235, sized 7.5 to 9 mm) for each of the five rows....
...The great palaces of Hyderabad, including Falaknuma, stood crumbling, prey to the climate, the looters and the white ants. Cut to 2010....
...What: Nordic birch, shaped like a cut diamond and available in a black or white lacquer finish. Why: Why should death mean an end to style? For: Those who favour clean, modernist style....
...Ms Khan designed a charm bracelet in white gold with five diamond set charms each representing one of the great world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism....
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