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...Although her seasonal buying is comprehensive, Ms Quy is careful not to overload the site with too many products at one time....
...“Once you realise how comfortable they are and that they are not actually cumbersome, then it becomes an everyday piece,” says Ms Ogura....
...“Our customer also goes to Tiffany and Cartier,” says Baccarat’s Ms Delale. “With crystal, they have the opportunity to get much bigger pieces. Our customers have both.”...
...Some pieces with a serpent motif seem designed with the Asian market in mind, but Ms Azagury-Partridge says that is unintentional. “Nationality and age are not factors,” she says....
...“It has become accepted and is more common now,” Ms Love says of the trend....
...The result, says Ms Guinness, is a customer base different from that of conventional jewellery. “There’s increasing crossover between design and art fairs....
...“Jewellery is not about a diamond in a four-claw mount,” Ms Hardy says. “It’s an extension of your personality and your emotions.”...
...Pat Felder, who runs a car parts distributor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says her employee insurance premiums went up by 17 per cent last year, and she has been warned to expect a 20 per cent-plus rise this...
...Ms Nightingale has advised clients – who pay up to $15,000 (€11,643, £10,500) a year – to meet dates during happy hours, in hotel lobbies that offer live jazz, or at bars where women drink for free....
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