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...Her brand does not currently explain the provenance of its stones on its website but is working on doing so....
...So she was replaced by Stone as director....
...These large-scale, one-off, maximum-impact designs, with copious stones, command awe but articulate beautifully for ease of movement. Now others are getting in formation....
...It was Chopard who first set diamonds free in 1976 with the Happy Diamonds watch, which saw the stones rolling around the face of the timepiece....
...Yes, and her name is Emma Stone, who did in fact look lovely in white, feathered Louis Vuitton. Here’s the thing: it’s fine to go rogue, as long as you do it with panache....
...Ideas for songs come to Valerie June in the form of a voice....
...French jewellery designer Valérie Messika, for example, built her business by marketing diamonds as “fun” — thus encouraging self-purchase....
...Quiet lanes lined with drystone walls criss-cross the rural interior dotted with low-slung stone farmhouses....
...A stone’s throw away, three memorials compete for the public’s attention: one each for Brcko’s Croat, Bosniak and Serb defenders....
...“The renovation allowed us to rethink the pathway from start to finish, in chronological order,” says Valérie Guillaume, the Carnavalet’s director since 2013....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a necklace from Ivarene, which makes jewellery from precious stones. The founder, Elisa Battistini, is a friend....
...The Duchess of Sussex, Emma Stone, Amanda Hearst and Mila Kunis are all fans....
...Notably, two chef d’oeuvre exhibitions: Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, and In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met....
...Irini, a tour guide sitting on a stone bench near the ticket office, complained she had “no work at all” this week....
...“I like to see contrast and difference, and with mismatched earrings there is an opportunity to express personality,” says Valérie Messika, whose eponymous label offers asymmetrical diamond ear cuffs in...
...Both of us were fortunate gainers in earlier years from Valerie Finnis, the queen of alpines and small hardy plants....
...Valerie Messika, who uses Ziricote wood from South America in amulet-style bracelets and chokers, says proffering wood as a new material is key to evolving as a brand, especially as customers’ focus on sustainability...
...Already in her collection is a series of wall-mounted semiprecious stones by artist-jeweller Octave Vandeweghe, each cut to resemble prehistoric tools, their faceted surfaces catching the light prettily....
...Valerie Hopkins is the FT’s south-east Europe correspondent Rocking Toward a Free world: When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov, by András Simonyi, Grand Central Publishing, $25.98...
...Valérie Messika shunned the humble marble as a child: instead she toyed with the gemstones that her father, a renowned diamond dealer, would bring home from work....
...Valerie Messika, happy that stylists are asking for more and more jewellery, says, “The more visibility we have as an industry, the better it is for the market.”...
...Finnish Ecomodernists Take Aanstoot Founder and Chair, Swedish Ecomodernist Society Adam Blazowski FOTA4Climate, Poland Pavel Gajda Institute of Sustainable Energy, Poland Marc Deffrennes weCARE Valerie...
...“We don't have enough stones to attack Russia,” he said. “I don't expect something to happen during the Nato entry process because, really, we are not a threat to anyone.”...
...“When you’re saying the same thing like water dripping on a stone, you have to find fresh ways of looking at it,” says Mr Guerin. Yet mis-steps were made....
...His 2007 album Version, which featured “Valerie”, turned indie songs by the likes The Smiths into retro-soul and hip-hop....
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