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...Since releasing her first fine jewellery collection in 2016, her offering continues to straddle the classic (such as her 14ct-gold pearl-drop Wuthering Heights earrings, £375), the delicate (including the diamond...
...I’ll have more on this theme in a story written with my colleagues Claire Jones and Eva Xiao that will be out later this week....
...“I’ve never come across a subject as rich as this; it’s so multi-layered,” says Claire Catterall, curator of Cute....
...Removing its classic diamond-ring layer leaves what creative director Claire Choisne calls “a mischievous space between two jewels” – an absence that jolts the senses....
...And fun was the driving force behind the concept, explains Claire Choisne, Boucheron’s creative director....
...Now try this This week I mostly listened to the Rolling Stones’ new record Hackney Diamonds, an album that is never any worse or any better than “very pleasant”, I think....
...“Innovation is about being open-minded,” says Claire Choisne, the creative director of Boucheron. “It is simply a tool, used not for its own sake but to achieve my dreams.” Her research is extreme....
...Plus I love the rustic texture and diamond-shaped patterns you end up with as a result of the weaving. Even better?...
...Patrick Diamond, professor of public policy at Queen Mary University of London and a former head of policy planning at 10 Downing Street, said Canary Wharf was still seen as inaccessible to local people...
...Healthcare roulette Opaque and convoluted pricing in the US medical system means turning one’s health into a betting game, writes the FT’s Claire Bushey....
...asks curator Claire Catterall in the book accompanying The Horror Show!, a new exhibition at Somerset House in London. “With horror, of course!”...
..., found in Botswana, the largest stone mined since the Cullinan diamond in 1905....
...“We have seen some really explosive growth happening on the piercing front,” says Claire’s chief merchandising officer Beth Moeri, of its ear-piercing services....
...– Dell’s diamond deal. – NYT and the lab leak. – The great American labour shortage. – Lab meat: well done or still raw? – The money behind Trump’s democracy attacks....
...Creative director Claire Choisne has drawn on the original painted gouache designs for these masterpieces and used them to illustrate the creative exchange between India and Europe that shaped art deco jewellery...
...“We are competitors outside sustainability but we are not in competition for sustainability,” argues Marie-Claire Daveu, chief sustainability officer at Kering....
...Perhaps that makes the piece exquisite,” says Claire Choisne, creative director at Boucheron....
...“I think that, today, [men] feel more confident in their own style to take risks and try new things such as wearing jewellery to show who they really are as a person,” says Claire Choisne, creative director...
...In part two, that diamond necklace McGuffin is still floating around but the stakes are now much higher....
...Lavallière Diamants — a cravat-like necklace in an art deco signature monochrome palette of diamond, onyx and black lacquer — triples as a necklace, choker and collar pin....
...“We worked with diamonds and half-millimetre-thin mother-of-pearl engraved with feather lashes,” says creative director Claire Choisne of the Caresse de Plume brooch, “to make it realistic, soft and light...
...“There is a lot of creativity in how to access capital,” said John McClain, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management....
...A wisteria brooch, dripping yellow-diamond petals, recalls the naturalism of huge 19th-century diamond ornaments, yet makes a contemporary statement....
...I’d also love some diamonds....
...“The luxury market is changing constantly and we [have] to look beyond traditional gold, diamond and gemstones as being the only precious metals,” she says. Boucheron’s Claire Choisne goes further....
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