Features
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Jan- 2019 -2 January
Brand Profile: Simon Harrison
Do you think that fashion has a significant role to play in jewellery? Yes, absolutely. Fashion can liberate us from the daily routine of our lives; lift our spirits and make us smile. My personal view is that jewellery is a part of fashion, not something different or separate from…
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2 January
Voice on the High Street: E.C One
Name: E.C.One Location: Clerkenwell, London Established: 1997 Number of staff: 10 Website: www.econe.co.uk Tell me about the history of EC One? E.C.One is celebrating its 21st birthday this month. We started in an old butchers shop in a rundown street in Clerkenwell. Over the past two decades, Alison and I…
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Dec- 2018 -18 December
Retailers: Step it up with training
It’s time to step it up or you may find yourself stepping aside. To say that we are in a serious situation is an understatement. Most jewellery firms, both in retail and more broadly, are doing about half of what they potentially could and should be doing. I say this…
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13 December
Art Jewellery – Why the distinction?
“These are wearable sculptures which engage with our thought-process, with our emotions. The value is not about whether it has diamonds or rubies, but about the fact that it’s done by an artist and that it carries a story.” Since she was a child, Cipriani has always had a passion…
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12 December
The rise of fancy coloured diamonds
One in every 10,000 diamonds produced possesses natural colour. For this reason alone, fancy coloured diamonds have long been cherished for their beauty and rare form, retaining value and making prized and valuable jewels within the diamond industry. Over the past 14 years, fancy coloured diamonds (typically blue and pink…
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11 December
Selling advice: Why are you prejudging your customers?
Two customers come into Johnson Jewellers. One we’ll call Frank, who is dressed in a suit and tie, and the other is Ben who is about 30 and came in after work in a t-shirt and jeans. Ben sees the salesman, approaching Frank first. Ben then leaves the store because…
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11 December
Voice on the High Street – Dower & Hall
Tell me about the history of Dower & Hall? My wife, Diane Hall, and I established Dower & Hall in 1990. After meeting at Middlesex University while studying jewellery design, I opened my studio in 1987 and Diane joined me after working as an in-house jewellery designer at various labels.…
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10 December
Voice on the Highstreet: Brooklands Jewellers
How did Brooklands Jewellers get started? Myself, and my two business partners, Stewart Baldwin and Dave Jarvis have had a workshop running as a manufacture and repair business above the shop since 2001. We decided to move to the downstairs part of the property in 2011. We refurbished the tired…
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10 December
Lowe & Sons reopening – A grand return
“It’s part of the local heritage, and when we closed down I was getting phone calls from Australia, America and France, from clients whose families have been dealing with us for over 100 years,” says Kevin Parry, the newly reinstated part-time manager of the recently reopened Lowe & Sons jewellery…
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5 December
Is the clock ticking for traditional watchmakers?
Apple has form in the game of entering markets very late and changing the game. That much is certain. The iMac was not the first self-contained PC, but it caught the imagination of the late Nineties tech-adopters. The iPod was not the first MP3 music player, but it was somehow…
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