THERE were more than 200 celebrities attending this year’s 58th Annual TV Week Logie awards, but a prominent no-show was 60 Minutes, with none of the show’s on-air team, including embattled reporter Tara Brown, attending this year’s awards. The move comes just weeks after the program’s botched coverage of Aussie mum Sally Faulkner’s attempt to … Read More →
Fancy blue diamond prices increased by 1.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to data gathered by The Fancy Color Diamond Index. During the same period, fancy yellow diamonds saw price declines of 1.8 percent while fancy pink diamonds saw a 0.3 percent price increase. The Fancy Color Diamond Index is published … Read More →
It’s Sense of Smell Day (and Alice B Toklas’ birthday) on Saturday and May Day (don’t forget to wear lily of the valley!) on Sunday. We are celebrating with 5 questions. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else entirely. 1. What fragrance are you wearing … Read More →
The Sharjah Bridal Fair (SBF) has launched the ‘Young Fashion Awards 2016’, which will be held at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre (JRCC) from 19 to 22 May. The awards, which are open to female Emiratis or UAE residents under 25 years of age, aim to recognise young designers’ inventiveness in the categories of … Read More →
With little more than a month to go to the 37th World Diamond Congress, the biennial meeting of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), the WFDB is putting the final touches to the programme and has announced the speakers list for the meeting. The overarching theme of … Read More →
Multitasking must be trending. Rebecca Minkoffmade another one of her frequent California trips this week for a trio of events: Monday’s panel for University of California, Berkeley students in STEM study tracks (science, technology, engineering, math) and fashion design, with cospeakers Hillary Kerr of Who What Wear, Brit Morin of Brit + Co, Jess Lee … Read More →
Sunday, almost one month after the end of Paris Fashion Week, brought glorious springlike weather and coincided with the 40th Paris marathon — as well as Azzedine Alaïa’s fall show. The designer is apparently as impervious to time as a mountain range. See-later, buy-later seems to be his counterintuitive slogan. And yet he drew a full … Read More →