jewelry

At Boston Airport

Jewelry shop at Boston Airport specialising in charms.

Rare coloured diamond auction

Sotheby’s are planning an auction on Nov 17 in Geneva which will feature a collection of some 400 lots of rare natural-coloured diamonds and historic jewels estimated to fetch in excess of 29.5 million. One of the most anticipated pieces is a pear-shaped fancy vivid blue with a modified brilliant cut weighing 5.96 carats – […]

Bloomingdales makes over main floor at flagship

Bloomingdales in Manhattan are doing a total makeover on their 5500m2 main floor, due to be finished in October 15.  To launch the new layout they have organised 525 different events in cosmetics alone through December. The renovations apparently are costing between $US45-55million including vendor contributions for which the vendors are hoping to see a […]

Ivanka Trump gets serious

Ivanka Trump is getting serious about her jewellery line, hiring her first CEO Andrea Hansen.  Hansen is no lightweight, having worked for the last 24 years at H.Stern.  She will be focussing on increasing sales at their only store – on Madison Avenue, expanding their collection, developing e-commerce strategies and getting reading for global expansion.  […]

JetBlue's JFK T5 Retail Offering

Aside from the extraordinary range of F&B, T5 also distinguishes itself with an innovative retail mix consisting of: Blue Sky Traders  — Newsstand, sundries, “Read & Return” books and Press Express, a grab-and-go newspaper dispenser. Borders — Full-size bookstore offering 7,000 titles as well as CDs and DVDs. Brighton — Creative accessories you can mix […]

Top jewelry brands

The Luxury Institute in New York recently interviewed 500 wealthy luxury consumers and asked them to rate 20 of the world’s top jewelers. They rated a list of 20 brands on the basis of superior quality, uniqueness & exclusivity, social status and customer service, which were then converted into an index. They recently published the […]

Luxury hotel packages

It never ceases to surprise me how difficult hotels find it to create innovative packages for the luxury market.  The Mandarin Orient have launched their Christmas package for $US130,000 which includes a limo service, diamond jewelry worth around US100,000, a diamond studded Christmas tree in the room, a gourmet dinner and the presidential suite.Predictably, whilst […]

Tiffany awaits verdict in eBay lawsuit

Tiffany and Co. is still waiting for a verdict in its lawsuit against eBay after a weeklong bench trial in which Tiffany’s lawyers argued that eBay is a distribution network that allows counterfeit Tiffany items to be bought and sold, according to a report in The New York Times. The case, heard by U.S. District […]