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...He buys jewelry for his girlfriends at the Graff jewelry store, and jokes to his friends that he has a motto “No Graff, no love”....
...“There’s a quality here that’s quite special, a tinselly, fairy-dust feeling in the air,” she says....
...But while she fantasises about casting off her possessions to outrun the fairy story witch, it is not her style....
...But Super Bowl rings were not always so big, bold and bling-bling....
...genre has more in common with Angela Carter’s 1970s feminist fairy tales....
...sent by a well-intentioned marketing employee at one of our companies who was following customary protocol, and who, like many of us, is still making adjustments post-election,” said Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry...
...Yet it is in socialist Venezuela, Cuba’s closest ally, that revolutionary bling has reached its apogee....
...We Polish Catholics love trinkets but I have a longstanding distrust of gold, baubles and bling, which I sense could make this endeavour a tricky one....
...The thing to remember about China and bling, is that Chinese shoppers love status and for the time being wearing designer duds and having a flashy car is still the way to go....
...Yet in spite of this obvious appetite for bling, analysts say durable luxury goods are considered sound investments for the wealthy in China, many of whom are young entrepreneurs....
...Bling and you could not miss it....
...Cleobella’s black Navaho style luggage tag for $51 makes for classy suitcase bling....
...Prices range from as little as £22 ($35) for acrylic earrings by a fashion jewellery brand such as Bling Deenie to £100,000 for emerald earrings by Ana de Costa, the celebrated fine jeweller....
...Notable – and notorious – women of the 20th century Eight years ago, former magazine editor Judith Price launched the National Jewelry Institute in New York to preserve and exhibit fine jewellery....
...Consumerella bought a bling-bedizened gown, a palace and a Mercedes – and spent the rest on champagne. The first payment was due at midnight....
...But can mirrored rooms catch on now that the bling era is over? Bygraves thinks so. “Many of our clients are used to staying in seven-star hotels,” she says....
...Everywhere, the rarefied, extravagant, indulgent tone is evocative of today’s mix of bling and unease....
...Marriage is many things – a large chunk of them fabulous (some, of course, not so) – but what it patently is not is a fairy tale....
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