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This week in Diamond Shavings: The new gold rush may cool off. Does it matter if a watch is Swiss-made? Megyn Kelly calls Meghan Markle’s earrings “blood diamonds.” All below.
– The House hopes to extend the PPP through May.
Leslie Therriault Joins Frederick Goldman jckonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jckonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
January 29, 2021
When Dan Scott, the founder and brand architect of Luxe Licensing, hears natural and lab-grown diamond sellers take shots at each other, it pains him. Because he has seen this movie before.
In a webinar this week for Gemmological Research Indsustries, Scott, the former chief marketing officer for designer Scott Kay, recounted two past intratrade battles he was involved in: platinum vs. palladium, and cobalt vs. tungsten carbide. He tells
JCK that while both sides enjoyed momentary victories, everyone ended up losing.
When Scott worked for Scott Kay, the late designer whose first love was platinum began dabbling in its then-cheaper alternative, palladium. But not everyone in the industry considered palladium a precious metal.
WJA Announces Susan Chandler as the 2021 President-Elect of the International Board of Directors The Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA) elected Susan Chandler, Chief Merchandising Officer for Citizen Watch America, as the new President-Elect of the WJA International Board of
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Joining Chandler on the 2021 International Board of Directors is Beth Gerstein who is CEO of Brilliant Earth, the global leader of responsibly sourced fine jewelry; Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez, Curatrix of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard University. She is responsible for access to, teaching, research, public education, and continued development of the worldclass Earth Science collections; and Matthew Tratner who currently serves as Director, Global Business