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...Cassandra Goad gold, blue topaz and iolite ring, £7,660....
...Like David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, it saw a big-name film director create surreal mayhem on the small screen....
...Whenever David Fincher goes near a camera, Hitchcock’s ghost is his consultant....
...My style icon is David Bowie. He was the man who showed me what clothes could mean, and how you could create a persona with them. I was about 13 when he first made an impact on me....
...Is Solomon at risk of becoming the dance music equivalent of William Topaz McGonagall, the Dundee loom weaver turned poet whose doggerel became a source of cruel amusement among the artsy set?...
...It is this level of connection that former craftsmen Davids Surtees and Basford recall when they speak about their days working in Cartier’s London workshops in its midcentury heyday....
...For something more abstract, look to Italian designer Bea Bongiasca, who showcases red enamel in her glossy collection of vine-like rings, paired with a gleaming topaz (€460)....
...The Golden Burst necklace, with its baroque feel, captures the hue with a near-incandescent array of 350 carats of imperial topaz....
...And think of David Lean....
...It contains loans advanced to some of Ireland’s best-known trading businesses such as Davy Stockbrokers and retailer Topaz. The loans have a par value of €3.5bn....
...“In Asia and parts of Europe, the customer asks a lot of questions: what it is made of, where it comes from, all kinds of things,” says David Chu, chief executive of Georg Jensen, the Danish luxury brand...
...By the same token, Tina Craig, wife of Texas-based real estate developer David Craig, says she and her friends are still buying their Hermès Birkins, but going to Target for more trendy fare....
...Verdura, for example, offers pieces set with bright topaz set into 18-carat yellow gold to enhance the blue....
...The new music group Affinity turned to old-guard 1970s modernism with Joan Tower’s austere Black Topaz and George Crumb’s difficult-to-parse Ancient Voices of Children, to texts by Federico Garcia Lorca....
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