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Tarang Arora, president of Amrapali Jewels, described how he pored over a set of charcoal and colored pencil sketches of an anklet and a headpiece for an 11-year-old girl. He said it was late, well past store hours, and his many workers, including 12 designers, had left the 3,500-square-foot showroom for the day. The clients, a prominent family in Jaipur, wanted a matha patti (an Indian-style headpiece), a paayal (a thin anklet with bells) and a necklace, all to fit the theme of a wedding they were about to attend. “The family told me which designer would make the bride’s clothes,” he said, “and we started working on the jewelry designs that would match the sensibility of the clothing designer.” The pieces were fashioned from 22-karat gold set with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, all high-quality stones cut in a rose style with a flat bottom. That way, he said, they would possess all the sparkle possible without any extra weight, making them comfortable for ...

As founder and president of the National Jewelry Institute, Judith Price is friends with the heads of all the big names in jewelry. And while she does own some of their pieces, she stopped wearing them when she established the nonprofit organization in 2002. “It seems to me like a conflict of interest,” Ms. Price, a former journalist, explained. Besides, her personal passion is collecting jewelry that has less prominent or virtually unknown makers. “It’s the fun stuff,” she said. Sitting in her apartment on New York’s Park Avenue, Ms. Price laid out a selection of “things that I love that are unsigned.” She compared them with the African art that she and her husband, Peter, collect and that also fills their apartment on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. “If the piece has no signature, then you look at it as I do, as architecture,” she said. “Jewelry, for me, is architecture for the body.” To demonstrate, Ms. Price lifted a bracelet of barrel-shaped black...

Once that ring goes on your finger, you’ve not only gained a fiancé –you have a new prized possession to admire. And while your engagement ring will always look beautiful from afar, it’s up to you to keep that close-up view as sparkly as the day you got it.  This isn’t just an ordinary piece of jewelry, so before you grab your cleaning supplies, make sure you’re following specific instructions to care for your new carats. Insure your ring Insurance is one of those things you don’t think you need until you need it. If you’ve taken the risk of not protecting a trip or adding a warranty to a piece of technology and had it backfire, don’t make the same mistake when it comes to your ring. Shop for an insurance policy to find the option that works best for you –some couples add ring protection to their homeowners or renters insurance, and others insure it through the jeweler where the ring was purchased or a third-party insurance company. To get started, schedule you...

Women are no longer waiting for men to buy them jewelry.  Jewelry commercials are very romantic, sentimental and touching. For example — The Tiffany and Lady Gaga 2017 Superbowl commercial introduced us Lady Gaga’s sensitive side, as she played a harmonica and opened her heart to the world about her teenage life in New York City. Does jewelry impact you in some way — emotionally, personally or professionally? It definitely influenced me ever since I received that very special girl friend ring from my first boyfriend. It was young love, and we were so close, even when we’re apart. We were like an amulet that was separated at birth. I cherished every piece of jewelry he gave me, especially my engagement ring. But after we broke up, I sold my ring, and every scrap of jewelry he gave me! That was the only way I can release the emotional burden he left behind, and for me to successfully start the next stage of my life. I love to buy myself jewelry and no longe...