India’s gems and jewellery export promotion council is working with the Dubai multi commodities centre to set up goods delivery standards for gold and diamond trade, a senior industry official said here today. The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) is the apex body of the gems and jewellery industry, set up by the … Read More →
Israel’s 7th International Diamond Week (IDWI), to be held by the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) from February 5 – 7, 2018, will feature a section devoted to high end diamond jewellery manufactured by Israeli diamond companies. In recent years many Israeli bourse members have begun to diversify their businesses by offering exclusive lines of diamond … Read More →
As part of its Red Label program, which provides clients with late-model aircraft and flight crews who are assigned to specific planes, the fractional and charter provider Flexjet now offers the LXi Cabin Collection, a series of more than 20 different cabin designs for the aircraft in its fleet. Ric Michaels, the director of product development for Flexjet, … Read More →
For her latest collections, Organic Interlink and Real Royalty, Mumbai-based designer Sonya Vajifdar has used everything from Coke cans, X-ray paper to mobile phone wires An Instagram search for #Sustainability will get you a figure with a mind-boggling number of zeros. The ‘ecofashion’ hashtag will get you many more. To be environmentally conscious is fashionable, … Read More →
PARIS • His work will not pass away with his death. Instead, the final collection of fashion legend Azzedine Alaia (left) will be shown in Paris next year, his couture house said on Monday. The Tunisia-born designer, known as the King of Cling for the way his clothes hugged the body, died suddenly last month, … Read More →
Designer Hoai Nam (centre) at a press conference yesterday. Designer Hoai Nam has received an invitation letter from the organizing board of Paris Fashion Week 2018. Talking to the media at a December 23 press conference in Hanoi, Hoai Nam said that he is honoured to have been chosen to open Paris Fashion Week 2018. … Read More →
Bobby Freeman Jr. knows his way around a courtroom — and a designer evening purse. When he’s not tending court as an Orleans Parish prosecutor, the Plaquemine native is turning luxurious silk fabrics, mink and other exotic materials into couture evening bags, which are now being carried at the Moreau-Reyes Gallery in Baton Rouge. “I … Read More →