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Wow, these FURA Mozambican rubies revive that famous Mogok glow

A valley in Mozambique is producing rubies that remind gemologists of something they thought was almost gone: the glow of Mogok.

Industry Insights

Japan Pearl Fair: A Mini-Guide to the World's Most Important Pearl Show

One trade show, over 100 Japanese pearl companies, and Akoya, South Sea, and Tahitian under one roof. Here is what serious buyers need to know before booking Kobe.

Industry Insights

Vicenzaoro 2026: Navigating the New Era of Gold, Tech, and Human Connection

Gold at near-record prices, a brand-new awards ceremony, and over 1,300 exhibitors figuring out what comes next. Vicenzaoro 2026 is less about sparkle, more about survival.

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TEFAF Maastricht Jewelry 2026: Why Brands Fight to Be Seen at the World’s Leading Art Fair

At TEFAF Maastricht, jewelry stops being luxury and becomes culture. Here is what that shift looks like from the inside.

The Mohs Scale: What Jewelry Hardness Actually Means for the Pieces You Wear

Industry Insights

World Diamond Day Was Everywhere. Just Not Where It Matters.

Over a thousand posts. Major brands. Producing nations. And the people who walk into jewelry stores had no idea it happened. That gap is the real conversation.

Brands & Designer Stories

LANGI Roma at TEFAF Maastricht: Jewelry Inspired by the Victoria Amazonica

At TEFAF Maastricht, Alessandro Langella of LANGI Roma presents earrings and a brooch that translate the geometry of the Victoria amazonica into blackened silver, rose gold and old cut diamonds.

Industry Insights

The Secret Life of Akoya: 10 Days Inside Japan's Protected Pearl World

Ten days behind the scenes with Japan's pearl farmers revealed something most jewelry lovers never get to see: how much patience, risk, and skill a single Akoya pearl actually requires.

Brands & Designer Stories

Why Pomellato's Memorie D'Archivio is the Ultimate Lesson in Modern Heritage

Pomellato was building social conscience into its chunky gold rings long before "sustainability" became a selling point. The archives prove it.

Brands & Designer Stories

From Denmark to New York: How Joy Haugaard Designs Modern Heirlooms with Lionheart Jewelry

Joy Haugaard moved from Denmark to New York at 15 to play soccer. Twenty years later, she runs one of the city's most soul-driven fine jewelry brands.

Industry Insights

Modernizing Gemstone Sourcing: From Tradition's Challenges to RapNet's Digital Advantage

Sourcing loose gemstones has always been a world of connections and closed circles. That is changing, and faster than most of the industry expected.

Brands & Designer Stories

From Courtroom to Jeweler's Bench: Judith Tjallingii's Journey of Connecting Good and Beauty

She is a lawyer who reads gemstones the way she reads a case: turning each one until a new truth appears. Judith Tjallingii designs jewelry at the intersection of law and beauty.

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Jewelry marketing and social media: what dopamine culture can teach the industry

Fashion's dopamine culture is reshaping how consumers see, want, and share jewelry. The question is not whether to respond, but how.

Industry Insights

JCK Las Vegas 2025: My Journey from Amsterdam to the Show Floor

Over 1,800 exhibitors, 30,000 professionals, and one show that never gets smaller. A personal report from the JCK Las Vegas 2025 floor.

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Italian jewelry in 2025: challenges, data, and the drive to innovate

From Turin's export surge to Valenza's slowdown, the data behind Italian jewelry in 2025 tells a story that goes far beyond aesthetics.

Sustainability in jewelry: nature, regulations, and future-proofing

Sustainability in jewelry is no longer about ethics alone. Nature is becoming a regulator, and the rules are tightening faster than most jewelers realize.

Brands & Designer Stories

Chanel N°5 high jewelry: the symbolism behind the number

Chanel built an entire high jewelry collection around a single number. Here is why that number has always meant more than perfume.

Industry Insights

The Challenges of Buying and Selling Colored Gemstones – And the Shift Toward Transparency

Behind the beauty of sapphires, rubies, and emeralds lies a trade still built on trust, informal networks, and pricing that varies wildly from one dealer to the next.

Trends & Inspiration

Rarity, Radical Choices and Revolutionary Design: Fine Jewelry Picks by Esther Ligthart

Six fine jewelry pieces that break rules, tell stories, and redefine what luxury can look like — from ancient-inspired Coomi to lab-grown-only Annabella Chan.

Industry Insights

How RapNet Ensures a Trustworthy, Expansive, and Customized Experience

The diamond market runs on trust. RapNet built an entire platform around it — and the scale of what they've created is hard to ignore.

Industry Insights

How Bioengineering, AI, and Clean Energy Will Reshape Luxury Jewelry

The rules of luxury are breaking, and the jewelry industry has a narrow window to reposition before the next 25-year cycle locks in new winners.

Industry Insights

Istanbul Jewelry Show 2024 Reflections: A World of Innovation and Connection

The Istanbul Jewelry Show drew 26,000 professionals from 134 countries. Here is what the industry is actually talking about.

Industry Insights

My Journey to the Istanbul Jewelry Show: A Look Back and What's Ahead

Turkey's jewelry industry has quietly become one of the most significant production forces in the world. Here's what that looks like from the inside.

Industry Insights

Self-Coaching for Jewelry Entrepreneurs: The SOLVE Framework

Running a jewelry business means carrying two things at once: creative instinct and business pressure. When both pull in different directions, your own thinking becomes the obstacle.

Industry Insights

Technology trends reshaping the jewelry industry

Technology is rewriting the rules of jewelry, from how pieces are designed to how customers discover and trust what they buy.

Trends & Inspiration

Finding Your Jewelry Style Through Interior Design

Minimalist rooms, maximalist spaces, whimsical interiors: each one points toward a different kind of jewelry. Here's how to read the signs in your own home.

Industry Insights

A Journey to the Heart of Sri Lanka's Gemstone Marvel with Ruwanpura Gems

Sri Lanka's gemstone capital holds secrets most jewelry lovers never get to see. Here is what happens when you actually go inside the mines.

Industry Insights

Unveiling Istanbul: A Journey Through the World of Jewelry and Sustainability

Istanbul was chaotic, warm, and full of jewelry. Four days at the Istanbul Jewelry Show left a lasting impression, and not only because of the gems.

Brands & Designer Stories

Daverio1933: three generations of sculptural jewelry from Bergamo

A family of sculptors in Bergamo who never separated art from jewelry, and have spent three generations proving it doesn't need to be.

Industry Insights

Jewelry Show Revelation: 3 Eye-Opening Lessons from JCK Las Vegas

Three days at JCK Las Vegas, and the US jewelry world turned out to be nothing like its European counterpart.

Industry Insights

The Glorious Evolution of OroArezzo: Celebrating Made-in-Italy Jewelry in the Tuscan Hills

Italy produces one-third of its gold jewelry in a single Tuscan district, and OroArezzo is where the industry gathers to celebrate it. A first-hand account from inside the show.

Brands & Designer Stories

Jewels by Marthje offers stunning jewelry and unique opportunities

A Dutch jewelry designer whose earrings caught the eye of a queen, and whose business model is unlike anything most retailers have seen.

Industry Insights

OroArezzo showcases a world of Italian quality jewelry manufacturing

Nearly 400 Italian manufacturers, one focused trade show, and a surprisingly strong case for why OroArezzo deserves more attention than its larger rival VicenzaOro.

Industry Insights

All about the upcoming auction of Fura's enormous and exceptional emeralds

Two Colombian emerald roughs above 80 carats. Full blockchain traceability. And a grading system no one has attempted before for rough emeralds.

Brands & Designer Stories

Hoogenboom & Bogers jewelry, captured by Kaat Stieber

When fine jewelry meets fine art photography, something rare happens. Hoogenboom & Bogers and Kaat Stieber prove exactly that.

Industry Insights

FURA Gems has plunged into Australian sapphires

Australian sapphires were once mined by the tens of millions of carats, then nearly forgotten. One company is determined to change that.

Industry Insights

This is how FURA Gems transforms the precious colored gemstone market

One mining company. Three precious gemstones. A coordinated push to change how the entire colored gemstone industry operates.

Industry Insights

Australian sapphires: the Gen Z gemstone with color, provenance, and accessible pricing

Australian sapphires are winning over younger buyers, not just because of price, but because of color, provenance, and a rejection of the obvious.

Brands & Designer Stories

Simone Favarin and his transepochal jewelry concept

Simone Favarin does not design for fashion. He designs for archetypes that have existed for thousands of years and will exist for thousands more.

Industry Insights

The Future of Diamonds: a panel report from VicenzaOro

The diamond industry agrees on one thing: the future is bright. What it cannot agree on is almost everything else. A panel report from VicenzaOro.

Brands & Designer Stories

Auvere Jewelry Is Expanding Its Collections

Most jewelry brands work in 14k or 18k gold. Auvere chose a different path entirely, and the collections keep growing.

Industry Insights

The Köhle Slide Clasp: the magnetic bracelet clasp that stays closed

A bracelet clasp you can open and close with one hand, that won't snap open under a 2 kg pull. Köhle solved a problem most jewelers haven't even acknowledged.

Industry Insights

J.Köhle: what a jewelry clasp specialist looks like when it takes quality seriously

A clasp company that changed how Esther thinks about hardware. J.Köhle has been quietly setting the standard since 1872, and there is more to them than most people realize.

Industry Insights

Köhle clasps: quality, long-lasting functionality and the CLICK

A clasp is the last detail most jewelers think about. Köhle has built an entire company around proving that wrong.

Trends & Inspiration

My 20 favorite Italian Jewelry Brands

It started as a list of five. It ended at twenty, and even then some brands that deserved a place got left out.

Selling your jewelry or diamond? Choose WP Diamonds

Selling a diamond or piece of fine jewelry is harder than buying one. WP Diamonds built a process around exactly that problem.

Industry Insights

The Brian Gavin History

Fifth-generation diamond cutter, Dutch ancestors, a childhood surrounded by rough stones: Brian Gavin's story is as layered as the diamonds he cuts.

Brands & Designer Stories

Lydia Courteille: the Parisian jeweler who turns dark fairy tales into fine jewelry

At 231 Rue Saint-Honoré, behind a door most people walk past, Lydia Courteille builds rings and brooches that feel like scenes from a story nobody else is telling.