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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Karen Dybis |Rob Bates |Brittany Siminitz |Victoria Gomelsky
If there is a color that defines summer to me, it has to be orange: Picture bright sunsets, farmers markets filled with fresh fruit, and overflowing gardens where flowers blossom under the sun’s warmth. In jewelry, orange is somewhat rare, but it showed up and showed out during the JCK and Couture shows. Brands of all kinds from the venerable Oscar Heyman to relative newcomers such as ZAHN-Z showed how orange can symbolize vitality as well as luxury.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz |Victoria Gomelsky
This week: A natural diamond ad proves controversial. Mother’s Day jewelry sales soar. And Bernard Arnault’s bankbook takes a big hit (though he’ll be fine). All below.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Brittany Siminitz |Karen Dybis |Rob Bates |Victoria Gomelsky
“There’s a sense of security and relief, even beauty, in knowing that, when no matter what you do you just keep getting lemons and you’re tired of going it alone, you have a support system that you can lean on.” So begins the introduction to the Afloat collection, a nautical-inspired line from the Istanbul brand Orman. The collection is based on the marine equipment that keeps a ship afloat at sea, with nods to the rope on an anchor, links on a sail, the shape of a compass, and more.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Karen Dybis |Amy Elliott |Rob Bates |Brittany Siminitz
Montreal-based fine jewelry brand Ecksand was recently granted the Canadian National Mark, a prestigious government-regulated designation for precious-metal products that confirms they are entirely made in Canada, with traceable materials, following stringent quality standards. The Canadian government has issued fewer than 110 National Mark certificates to date, and it is rare in the fine jewelry industry, says Ecksand cofounder and creative director Erica Bianchini.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Amy Elliott |Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
One of the liveliest panel discussions during the 2025 JCK and Luxury shows in Las Vegas was June 5’s “Common Jewelry Customer Misconceptions & Myths,” a conversation moderated by JCK contributing editor Karen Dybis.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Brittany Siminitz |Victoria Gomelsky |Rob Bates
It’s never okay to confuse opinions with facts—but moonstone is the greatest gemstone there is. I loved moonstone at first glance, before I even knew what it was. It’s named perfectly: Moonstones look like they fell from the moon, drops of a frozen potion from some faraway place, imbued with mystical powers. It’s alive like no other gemstone seems to be—except maybe opal, which can sometimes be confused for moonstone if the light hits it just right (rainbows seem to live within both!).
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Rob Bates |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz |Victoria Gomelsky
De Beers has appointed Kering veteran Emmanuelle Nodale (pictured) brand CEO for its retail chain, De Beers London. Nodale comes to De Beers after 18 years at Kering. She most recently was general manager for Europe at Kering-owned jewelry brand Pomellato. She also served as strategic development director for the conglomerate’s watch and jewelry division. De Beers London—the new name for De Beers Jewellers—will open a flagship boutique on Paris’ Rue de la Paix later this year.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Rob Bates |Annie Davidson Watson |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
Luxury conglomerate Kering has appointed Italian automobile executive Luca de Meo (pictured) CEO, effective Sept. 15. The Paris-based company owns Gucci and Saint Laurent, as well as four jewelry brands: Boucheron, Pomellato, Qeelin, and DoDo.De Meo comes to Kering after 30 years in the auto industry, most recently serving as CEO of French carmaker Renault, from which he resigned last week. He has never worked in the fashion business.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Annie Davidson Watson |Karen Dybis |Brittany Siminitz
Sotheby’s New York achieved its highest-ever sell-through rate for a multi-owner jewelry auction at its High Jewelry event on June 13, with an impressive 95% of lots sold, for a combined $31.4 million. The day before, Phillips had to withdraw the headline piece—a 3.03 ct. fancy intense pink diamond, estimated at $1.2 million to $1.6 million—from its New York Jewels auction because bids did not meet the reserve, though the auction house reported solid results for other lots in the sale.
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1 week ago | 
jckonline.com | Brittany Siminitz |Karen Dybis
I’ve been struggling to understand why I’ve become obsessed with the color brown this season, apart from the obvious—with Pantone’s Color of the Year, brown was bound to crop up everywhere. And now the hunger for brown gemstones is real, from opaque tiger’s eye to sensational, lively quartz. When something, such as a color in jewelry, gets beaten into you, the outcome usually is either you love it or you can’t stand the sight of it (and often, one of those feelings turns into the other).
