Karla Welch welcomed the fine jewelry brand Tabayer to Los Angeles on Tuesday night, cohosting a dinner at Caviar Kaspia with the designer Nigora Tokhtabayeva whose modern knot hoops have been worn by Tracee Ellis Ross, Meghan Markle, Gwyneth Paltrow and many more celebs. “I didn’t eat all day in preparation for this,” said Olivia … Read more
John Hardy has appointed Aida Alvarez as senior vice president of revenue for the Americas. She joins the jewelry brand’s global leadership team under the direction of group chief executive officer Jan-Patrick Schmitz. In the role, Alvarez will be leading the company’s wholesale and retail revenue channels for the Americas. “Having spent most of my … Read more
Though it’s not always considered high art (unfairly relegated, like fashion, to a lower rung), the demand is almost equally high for Egyptian Revival pieces. To land a Van Cleef & Arpels pictorial bracelet, a flat bracelet designed between 1923 and 1925 with sphinxes, scarabs, and lotus flowers, for example, Zapata said “a million dollars … Read more
LONDON — Noura Sakkijha, cofounder of Mejuri, comes from a family of jewelers, but her ambitions were never set in gold as she pursued a career as an industrial engineer at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. However, in 2013 she quit her job and started ideating her jewelry brand with her husband, Majed Masad. … Read more
