First a promotional note: I will be moderating a panel at JCK Las Vegas tomorrow. “Lab Grown Diamond Updates” will take place Saturday, June 3 at 10 a.m. at the Showcase Stage. Join me and an esteemed panel—Edahn Golan of Tenoris, Ari Levy of IGI North America, and Joanna Park-Tonks of the International Grown Diamond Association—as we discuss pricing, detection and disclosure, and sustainability.

This week: Women were upset they received fake diamonds. A cursed piece of royal jewelry. And Lizzo matches her nails to her jewelry. All below.

 

Luxury industry strides on as “world wobbles”

– Luxury retail’s staying power amid economic uncertainty

– Inside the luxury jewelry “boom” (subscription)

 

Pranay Narvekar and Chaim Even-Zohar’s 2022 diamond pipeline report

 

Can diamond business reconnect with Generation Z?

– Industry needs to be “more inclusive”

 

Four women who discovered their diamonds are fake

 

Botswana wants to maintain De Beers deal

– But nation’s president still wants a bigger diamond share

– De Beers defends itself against Sunday Standard article

– Botswana government defends itself against Mmegi article

 

How Molefi Letsiki, first Black sightholder, is changing the diamond industry (video)

 

Visionary cutter Gabi Tolkowsky dies

 

Stanley Zale joins Hill & Co.

 

Signet Jewelers appoints new senior VP of investor relations

– CEO Drosos sells 10,000 shares

 

Anglo American’s finance head to retire

 

WD Lab Grown Diamonds CFO departs

 

Profile of Nazem Said Ahmad, sanctioned art and diamond dealer

 

Report: World’s largest star sapphire cluster given fake value

 

New Jersey jeweler store’s future uncertain after car crash

 

Ontario’s first diamond mine enters final stages of closure

 

Petra sells stake in Williamson mine for $15 million

 

State Department issues advisory on Sudan gold

 

Mejuri announces investment in Regeneration, a remining startup

–  Company’s sustainability report

 

Lightbox diamonds certified carbon-neutral

 

What luxury looks like in Russia now

 

The story of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Medusa

 

New York Post reviews Tiffany’s Blue Box Café

 

Some believe this piece of royal jewelry is “cursed”

 

Lizzo matches nails to jewelry

 

Kim Kardashian’s most expensive jewelry, ranked

 

Antiques Roadshow guest stunned to learn value of jewelry

 

Trend alert: “dopamine jewelry”

 

Media Watch

Financial Times on “the power of jade”

Brilliant Earth CEO Beth Gerstein on Bloomberg podcast (audio)

GoBankingRates story says don’t buy jewelry on holidays or weekends

El País on Antwerp’s antipathy toward diamond sanctions

 

From the Podcast

The Jewelry District, Episode 96: Tiffany’s New Flagship, AGS Conclave and AI, JCK Las Vegas Preview

 

Have a great weekend!

 

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