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How do you know the jewelry you're buying was made without harming people or planet? Ask the right questions.
It’s every jeweler’s worst nightmare – and it happens all too often. Janine DeCresenzo and Megan Clark had their inventory...
For the last post in this model photography series, I’m turning my unforgiving lens on my own middle-aged self (gulp)....
A good model shot can mean a sale. A really good one can lead to multiple sales. Just ask Alysia Sánchez Melnikov whose Etsy shop took off after she started posting photos of herself modeling her jewelry - with some help from her husband and business partner.
When I was a kid, I went door to door selling jewelry my brother made. We were the new kids on the block. He was shy. I was curious. We both wanted some cash.
Retro was a bold style of jewelry that took off during WWII, when women became spies and factory workers and tough, sassy broads took over the big screen. Here's what to look for and how to wear it today.
Perhaps the most familiar form of revival jewelry is the cameo. Whose grandmother did not have one of these in her jewelry box? Its roots trace to classical mythology. Done well, a cameo is a thing of beauty loaded with symbolism.
I’m tying this year’s Valentine’s Day gift list to a perennial favorite on this blog: 8 secrets for buying a...
Buying jewelry online has always had one major drawback: you can’t try it on. If you’re selling this way, it...
Five years after JAR Jewels opened at the Met, the costume jewelry he designed for its shop is appearing at auction, along with the Somerset florals. If you sprang for those $2,000 baubles, here's how your investment panned out.
Passing on tricks of the trade for both design and craftsmanship is a crucial part of maintaining high standards for...
Revival is always happening in the jewelry world, but archaeological revival had its heyday in the second half of the 19th century, when all kinds of treasure was being excavated all over Europe.
As jewelry models go, no one is more available than you. Ask anyone who posts jewelry regularly on Instagram. Most...
As 2018 launches with two blue super moons, jewelry designers around the world turn to the moon for inspiration.














