Even if you’ve been wearing leggings for the past three months, it couldn’t hurt to virtually try on a few fabulous new fashion trends A lot of predicting goes on during the fashion shows. It’s part of what we do. Watch a handful of capes come down the runways in New York City, and you think…

Jewelers discuss how the presidential election will affect five key issues facing the industry Politics, politicians, and the world itself look much different today than they did four years ago—or four months ago, for that matter. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as we know it. And yet independent retailers tell JCK that the…

Just about everyone agrees that when the COVID-19 lockdown ends, the world will look different. But no one is sure what that new America will look like in the wake of an unprecedented public health and economic crisis. For now, perhaps the best model is China, where COVID-19 was discovered, and where restrictions had mostly…

Since the coronavirus crisis hit the United States in March, jewelers have shared myriad examples of grace under pressure In March, the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of which were first detected in the United States in late January, brought with it mandatory quarantines and business closures around the country. Jewelry stores, manufacturing facilities, showrooms, and business offices…

SHOWS For decades, the jewelry calendar has largely pivoted on two events: the holiday season and JCK Las Vegas. In this year when so much that was once unthinkable has become reality, Reed Jewelry Group (the owner of JCK and JCKonline.com) has announced that JCK Las Vegas and its sister show, Luxury, will not be…

What. A. Year. We began working on this issue in January, six months and a lifetime ago. Many jewelers had just come off an extremely ­successful 2019 and brimmed with optimism for the year ahead. Then came the new coronavirus. I’ve watched the ­catastrophe unfold from my home in Los Angeles. As of this writing,…

It’s a time for hope. Greetings from my “home office” (our spare bedroom in Lancaster, Pa.). Since COVID-19 rocked the world in ways unimaginable just a few months ago, people around the country have been isolated in their homes and are just now adjusting to the new normal. In the first week of the pandemic,…

In March, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 disrupted the jewelry trade—and the world—to an unprecedented degree, with jewelry retailers and businesses across the United States and the world forced to close. At press time, many retailers around the country had reopened or were poised to reopen in the wake of government-mandated lockdowns that saw an…

In 1967, Vogue captured teen model Twiggy in the ultimate wrist shot This photo of gamine model-of-the moment Twiggy appeared in the November 1967 issue of Vogue, in a feature called “What Makes Fashion Tick: Accessories to Watch.” The budding British cultural icon wore a wool chenille jumpsuit by Pattie Tuttman for Silverworm, accessorized with…