Friday Flick: Modern Gems

Hauntingly beautiful music? Check. Black and white drama? Check. Fine jewelry? Check. Am I in love? Yes.

Check out this video from Elle featuring fine jewelry and dramatic posing. 

Interesting Read: Gaia Repossi: High Jewelry’s New Ingénue

I just stumbled onto this profile and Q&A from Elle. I'm a bit late but nonetheless, it's a great article on an iconic house and sort of what I tend to go for in my student designer profiles. Enjoy!

Newsworthy: Fine Jewelry, DIY Jewelry, and More Fine Jewelry

Style.com || Couture Week might be over in Paris but the festivities continue. Chanel, Dior, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Gripoix, and Fabergé showed their fine jewelry collections last week. You can bet many mags will want these pieces for their jewelry editorials come spring.

Teen Vogue || Check out this month's Teen Vogue DIY and learn how to create a vintage statement necklace à la Lulu Frost. The best part? It's a lot cheaper than a necklace from their collections.

Elle || Want to indulge your lady friend in jewels this Valentine's Day? De Beers just launched a new collection inspired by lucky coins. Prices are a bit expensive, the pieces range from $850 to $2,500. But if you buy on for her, she won't be the only one getting lucky.

Newsworthy: Jewelry Brands Revamping Collections, Tiffany Lawsuit Fails, Resort's Best Neckaces

WWD || Accessory and jewelry brands such as CA&LOU, Damiani, and Biern are revamping their businesses to cater to younger clientele and, in Biern's case, extending the brand into the jewelry market.

ABC News || Supreme Court rejects Tiffany & Co.'s lawsuit against eBay for trademark infringement. Fail.

Elle || Check out the best necklaces from the resort collections. Time to break out my piggy bank!

Newsworthy: Funding Fancy-Colored Diamonds, New Cartier and Post-Halloween Gems

WWD || A new fund is supporting fancy-colored diamonds, apparently the rarest and most expensive diamonds on earth. On bad days, I tell myself that I'm a diamond.. can I get some financial support and investment too?


Fashionista || Cartier's making more bank on revamping its successful LOVE line. The company hosted a fancy dinner and previewed the pieces, which feature earrings, necklaces, and rings in rose gold, pink sapphire, and black ceramic. I haven't bought pieces from their previous LOVE collections, and they're already shilling out new ones?? The insanity!


Elle || Halloween may be over but check out these scarily beautiful (and pricey) baubles. DIY by swiping that plastic spider you used to decorate your door and glue on some crystals from the bookstore's decoration section!