Fashion Jewellery
Fashion jewellery represents a vibrant and fast-moving segment of the UK market, offering jewellers, designers, and wholesalers opportunities to respond quickly to trends and appeal to price-conscious, style-driven consumers. With influences from global catwalks, celebrity culture, and social media, this category demands agility in design, production, and marketing. Jewellery Focus covers fashion jewellery with insights into trend forecasts, supplier innovations, retail strategies, and market analysis, supporting trade professionals in maximising success within this competitive space.
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Sep- 2017 -29 SeptemberDesigners
Buckley London to preview SS18 collection at TFWA Cannes
Fashion jewellery designer Buckley London will be unveiling seven new collections for the SS18 season in an exclusive preview next week at the TFWA World Exhibition and Conference in Cannes, France. The new collection will be showcased at the Buckley London stand, featuring elegant curves, feather motifs and leaf shaped…
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15 SeptemberDesigners
Loveness Lee launches new collection ahead of LFW debut
British fashion jewellery brand, Loveness Lee has launched its second collection, Hermetics, which will showcase at London Fashion Week. Developed from the debut Patination collection, Hermetics features the brand’s signature aesthetic of jagged motifs and unique textures but in a simpler form, with muted hues of silver and gold. Gold…
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12 SeptemberDesigners
Bill Skinner opens first international store in China
Bill Skinner, the fashion jewellery brand, has opened its first international store in China with the launch of a Shanghai premises. Located in Raffles City shopping centre in the heart of Shanghai, the store features the entire current Bill Skinner range. The store celebrated its opening on Thursday 24 August.…
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Aug- 2017 -25 AugustRetailers
Signet Jewelers post positive Q2 financial results
Signet Jewelers, which owns H Samuel and Ernest Jones in the UK, has reported a same store sales (SSS) increase of 1.4% in Q2. Total sales were $1,399.6m (£109.2m), up $26.2m (£20.4m) or 1.9%, compared to a decrease of 2.6% in the 13 weeks ended July 30, 2016. SSS increased…
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8 AugustDesigners
Bijou Bijou launches in the UK
Bijou Bijou, the Greek fashion jewellery brand, has officially landed in the UK with the aim of taking a piece of the £600m fashion and costume jewellery market. The company stocks over 1,000 individual pieces of jewellery, from bracelets, rings and necklaces through to body chains and anklets. It handcrafts…
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1 AugustDesigners
Goldsmiths’ Fair releases Ujin Lin’s Precious Mysteries film
The Goldsmiths’ Fair has commissioned a film by Ujin Lin as he is this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair Guest Curator. Lin has previously created campaigns for global luxury brands such as Prada, Philip Lim and Longchamp, among others. The film, named Precious Mysteries, stars up-and-coming models Ira Sumbayeva and Marcus Goodwille,…
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Jul- 2017 -17 JulyAppointments
Signet appoints new CEO to replace Mark Light
Signet Jewelers has announced Virginia C. Drosos as its new CEO. Drosos previously served as an independent director of the company’s board since 2012 and will take up the new role on 1 August 2017. This news comes as Mark Light, who has served as CEO of Signet since 2014,…
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Jun- 2017 -8 JuneDesigners
Loveness Lee releases debut collection
Fashion jewellery brand Loveness Lee has launched its debut collection this week. The eponymously named brand was founded in 2016 and offers “a unique take on modern jewellery.” The pieces are made in the designer’s London workshop through the process of cuttlebone casting and patination making each piece unique in…
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Mar- 2017 -15 MarchCurrent Affairs
Ivanka Trump ceases production of fine jewellery line
Ivanka Trump’s jewellery brand is set to discontinue production of its fine jewellery line in favour of more affordable collections. The fine jewellery line, which sells diamonds earrings for nearly $10,000 (£8,200) and link necklaces for close to $20,000 (£16,400), will be replaced by more affordable pieces of jewellery such…
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9 MarchRetailers
Same-store sales at Signet’s UK division fall 3.8% in Q4
Jewellery retail giant Signet Jewelers has reported a plunge in sales in the fourth quarter of its 2017 financial year. For the 13 weeks ending January 28, 2017, Signet reporting a 3.8% fall in same-store sales across its UK retail division – comprising Ernest Jones and H Samuel – to…
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