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5. Build Relationships With Sellers and Buyers. Both Ward and Webb have relationships with customers and dealers to get the best pieces out to the right people. Ward texts back and forth with ...
Miriam Haskell (July 2, 1899 – July 14, 1981) was an American designer of costume jewelry. With creative partner Frank Hess, she designed affordable pieces from 1920 through the 1960s. Her vintage items are eagerly collected and the namesake company, which first displayed her jewelry in New York City's McAlpin Hotel, continues.
Modern costume jewelry incorporates a wide range of materials. High-end crystals, cubic zirconia simulated diamonds, and some semi-precious stones are used in place of precious stones. Metals include gold- or silver-plated brass, and sometimes vermeil or sterling silver. Lower-priced jewelry may still use gold plating over pewter, nickel, or ...
Alexis Bittar is the designer and CEO of the eponymous jewelry and lifestyle brand. He was credited for reviving the art costume jewelry movement in the 1990s. [ 1] In 2010, Bittar won the CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year award. [ 2] In November 2014, he received the Brand of the year from The Accessories Council.
Edward “Eddie” Marks, the Emmy-winning president of Western Costume Company, died on Monday in Prague. He was 76. Marks had a longstanding career in costuming, working his way up to become ...
July 20, 2017. New York City, US. Education. University of Michigan. Occupation. Jewelry designer. Spouse. Nicola Weymouth (divorced) Kenneth Jay Lane (April 22, 1932 – July 20, 2017) was an American costume jewelry designer.
Marcel Boucher (1898–1965) was a French jeweller. In the early 1920s, he moved to New York City, where he developed a passion for jewellery design, [1] By the 1930s, he was working for Mazer Brothers. However, in 1937 he decided to establish his own company, which he called Marcel Boucher and Cie.
The ‘lost jet’. A fifth-generation auctioneer, Kruse launched GWS Auctions in 2007. Ten years later, the business received a flood of publicity when she auctioned off Elvis’ “lost jet ...