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Gucci to enter fine jewelry market in 2019

Gucci will start selling fine jewelry from June or July next year, Kering’s CEO François-Henri Pinault told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published today. Set to be made in Italy, the collection will include 200 pieces featuring many different stones. “Alessandro Michele’s extraordinarily rich and unique universe reflects the spirit...

Fashion

Jewelry line calls attention to lingering effects of Vietnam War

In Laos, one person is killed each day from unexploded bombs left behind from the Vietnam War. Though the CIA-led U.S. invasion of the country ended over 40 years ago, residents of the Southeast Asian nation still face the risk of being injured or killed by the over 80 million hidden explosives. Not only do these weapons pose a daily threat, the...

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Baselworld reacts to Swatch Group’s departure, announces changes

“Annual watch fairs, as they exist today, no longer make much sense. This does not mean that they should disappear. But it is necessary that they reinvent themselves”. With this harsh comment, Swatch Group, one of the world’s largest watchmakers, announced its departure from the Baselworld trade show yesterday. But the show’s organizers did not...

Culture

Metropolitan Museum of Art to host exhibition about jewelry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, has announced a new exhibition called “Jewelry: the body transformed”. Set to run from November 12 to February 24, 2019, at The Met Fifth Avenue, the exhibition will explore the meanings given to jewelry throughout History. ”A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts,...

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From Laos with love. Vietnam bombs become NY jewelry

Forty years after the end of the Vietnam war, US bombs dropped along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos have become expensive jewelry worn by American fashionistas. Delicate bracelets encrusted with diamonds, bronze pendants, necklaces and drop earrings -- all made from ordnance left over from America's deadliest war -- are on display on the...