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...She shows me drawings of a pendant for a large necklace, featuring a hand holding a large black pearl. “That’s the sun, the alchemic symbol for Man....
...For a while, the way this connection worked, it just wasn’t clear....
...a snake necklace....
...“Men, before, would buy what they could see on their opposite sex; a lot of necklaces and earrings with blue sapphires because they felt comfortable with them,” she says....
...Engelbert’s Galaxy first made to order collection, featuring $250,000 lab-grown diamond necklaces and $20,000 white gold rings with a large diamond in the centre, debuted in the autumn....
...And the best gift that I’ve received was a necklace by the French sculptor César, from my friend Olivier Bialobos at Dior about 15 years ago. The pendant is a compression of old bits of jewellery....
...Plaudits, though, for Sophie Buhai’s silk-rope necklace with a canister for “carrying your Xanax, your vitamins or your crystals”....
...I know that somewhere ahead is the camp with its warm shower, vast dinner and hot-water bottle. But for now, I am immersed in endless shades of silver — glistening fog, sparkling rock, mercurial water....
...The still morning zithers with grasshoppers and chitters with glossy black alpine choughs. The sunlight picks out their bright yellow beaks and designer crimson leggings....
...For Yasmin’s wedding to Christian, her grandmother gifted her an old Victorian-style cross pendant set with diamonds, which had been given to her by Yasmin’s grandfather early in their marriage....
...Asceticism is a way to imitate Christ’s life, to take up the cross with him....
...diamonds and aquamarines to the traditional cross lines for her Beethoven Moonlight pendant....
...Outside in the square, a statue of the Jesuit António Vieira, who died in Brazil in 1697, shelters three native children with pudding-bowl haircuts, loincloths and bone necklaces....
...Before he even starts, I notice that unlike all the other chefs, who are wearing white, Child is dressed head to toe in black, with a black apron....
...This stone includes the green zoisite with black veining that she used in her signature torque necklace....
...The authorities wanted to know every detail of their escape, even what kind of rope they had used to cross the river....
...Today, many people attempt the four-day expedition to the summit, but it’s a serious undertaking, with the final 150m involving rope-scaling near-vertical sheets of ice....
...A gold-domed reception welcomes guests, replete with tiled flooring, Persian carpets and intricately patterned arches. Pendant lights and silver lanterns hang throughout....
...In contrast, Verdura mixed semi-precious stones with precious, used then-unfashionable gold and incorporated natural objects such as shells to create drama....
...The air filled with clouds of nyaope, a cocktail of black-tar heroin cut with marijuana, rat poison and antiretroviral drugs....
...Instead of a shirt, a long Cartier necklace with a geometric panther pendant dangled against his sternum....
...“She turned up and worked hard every day of the week leading up to the show,” says one insider about the woodland plot with treehouse, waterfall, stream and a rope swing hung from the trees....
...“Using different metals the way I do with diamonds, helps to soften the stone; it almost changes the way it acts....
...Graffiti, real “graf”, in London at least, consists of a “tag”, essentially a one-colour signature; a “dub”, larger, often bubble writing using mostly silver and black paints, which don’t get absorbed by...
...I can see a thread of silver moving over the surface of the water. I trace it with my eye, and then it shifts....
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