NYC Jewelry Week

NYC Jewelry Week A weeklong celebration of JEWELRY in-person & virtually
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We interviewed our ONE FOR THE FUTURE honoree Alice Biolo — and this one is worth sitting with. 🖊️Alice is an Italian ar...
09/05/2026

We interviewed our ONE FOR THE FUTURE honoree Alice Biolo — and this one is worth sitting with. 🖊️

Alice is an Italian artist based in Glasgow whose practice moves between jewelry and sculpture, where body-related objects become sites for storytelling, transformation, and concealment. Her work has two distinct but connected sides: deeply personal, narrative-led brooches that explore themes like mental health, grief, and insecurity — and a more wearable, technically driven practice centered on movement, sound, and kinetic surprise. Both sides are in constant dialogue, and the boundary between them is always shifting.

In this conversation, she reflects on creative doubt (she experiences it almost daily), the recurring presence of the “hidden” across all her work, and why she believes a rubber chain necklace might move someone far more deeply than a diamond ever could. She also speaks candidly about an idea that has been quietly developing since 2024 — one she won’t name out loud yet, because saying it would mean committing to making it.

For Alice, jewelry doesn’t need to fit neatly under one label to be meaningful. It can exist across craft, design, sculpture, performance, and visual art — all at once. And her practice is proof of exactly that.

🔗 Read the full interview here: https://nycjewelryweek.com/on-vulnerability/

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09/04/2026

Only 10 weeks until NYCJW26! 🕰️ We're officially in pre-season, and the countdown is on!

NYC Jewelry Week returns with our 9th edition, celebrating Craftsmanship, in person and online across New York City.

🗓️ Save the date & share with a friend:
November 16–22, 2026

Events, exhibitions, and programming will be announced soon — join the newsletter to stay in the know! 💎✨

BREAKING NEWS: we're mentioned in thisNew York Times article 🗞️✨️When we launched NYCJW in 2018, we set out to celebrate...
09/04/2026

BREAKING NEWS: we're mentioned in thisNew York Times article 🗞️✨️

When we launched NYCJW in 2018, we set out to celebrate jewelry culture and expand the way we talk about jewelry and its cultural significance.

Since then, we’ve partnered with design galleries and showrooms, invited speakers from the worlds of fashion and decorative arts, and built a multidisciplinary advisory committee, all in an effort to explore jewelry beyond the object itself.

We’ve always believed that jewelry is more than the sum of its parts, and we’re grateful to Victoria Gomelsky for recognizing this and including us in her article alongside our colleagues and frequent collaborators.

Thank you for helping shine a light on the many ways jewelry intersects with culture, art, design, and beyond.

Check out the full article now available online!
🔗 nytimes.com/2026/09/02/fashion/jewelry-cultural-resonance.html

Gloria Steinem kept her torch.She died this week at 92, after more than half a century spent widening the door for every...
09/03/2026

Gloria Steinem kept her torch.

She died this week at 92, after more than half a century spent widening the door for every woman who came after her — co-founding Ms. magazine, organizing alongside Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm, never letting herself be canonized into stillness.

"I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much — and I'm using it to light the torches of others."

That's the legacy. Not a torch passed once, but one held out again and again, for as long as it took.

Rest well, Gloria.

09/03/2026

Sourcing gems isn't glamorous. It's grit. 💍

Lizzie Fortunato's husband jokes she's got a rotating cast of "whatsapp boyfriends" in Thailand and India — the vendors he says she talks to more than him.

15-18 year relationships built face to face on 47th Street, at Tucson gem shows, knocking on doors on Houston Street.

No jewelry school. No internships. No connections. Just showing up and asking, "Can you help me make this?"

The lesson? The jewelry world still runs on trust built face-to-face, one risk-taking vendor at a time. Relationships aren't a shortcut around the hustle — they are the hustle.

🎥 Watch the full conversation from NYCJW25 "Vintage Style + Stories: Costume Jewelry Reimagined" — link in bio to our YouTube.

09/03/2026

8 years. Countless "failed" watercolor renderings. Then—click. ✨

Even the pros wrestle with something for nearly a decade before it clicks. This one's for anyone still in the thick of the struggle right now.

The full conversation on the craft, the struggle, and the breakthrough is up on our YouTube now 🎥 Link in bio.

Long before machines could do it for you, jewelers were carving light into metal by hand — one cut at a time.Hand engrav...
09/02/2026

Long before machines could do it for you, jewelers were carving light into metal by hand — one cut at a time.

Hand engraving means metal removed with a hardened steel tool called a graver, pushed or hammer-driven into the surface — not stamped, not lasered. Every cut is guided entirely by the engraver's eye and hand pressure, which is exactly why no two pieces ever come out identical.

Swipe through 3 techniques — and the misconception we're setting straight:

✨ Bright-cut engraving — faceted cuts that catch light like tiny mirrors (pendant by Vance Davidson Jewelry)
🌿 Scroll engraving — flowing leaf-and-vine linework, trained for years under regional traditions (ring by Green Lake Jewelry)
🖤 Bulino — tonal, photographic imagery built from thousands of hand-cut dots
🔍 Hand vs. machine — what's actually lost in the name of "efficiency"

Want to go deeper? The Hand Engraving Glossary has 300+ illustrated terms from the trade, and The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum's profile on engraver Steve Lindsay is a full look at bulino and banknote-style technique from a master of the craft.

Save this one for your next trip to an engraver's bench, and get more craft breakdowns like this in our newsletter: https://nycjewelryweek.com/join-us/

📍 ISLAND HOPPING: US VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM & NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 🇺🇸Last stop. All the way across the Pacific and bac...
09/01/2026

📍 ISLAND HOPPING: US VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM & NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 🇺🇸

Last stop. All the way across the Pacific and back through the Caribbean, closing out this tour where the ocean never stops talking 🌊 Thank you for following along every Tuesday, coast to coast, island to island. We hope you found a few new designers to love, work that inspired you, and pieces you'll carry forward long after this tour ends.

Caribbean Lifestyle Jewelry | Handcrafted in St Croix — Made in St. Croix, USVI. Founded in 1999 by Whealan and Kris Massicott, ib designs has spent over 25 years turning nature, Caribbean culture, and West African symbolism into hand-hammered, recycled-metal "feel good jewelry" — layered pieces built with color, texture, and island soul.

See you next time 🚘🛣

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Guam | Lin's Jewelry Co.
Serving Guam since 1977, Lin's Jewelry has spent nearly five decades as one of the island's most trusted, family-owned jewelry houses. This 14K yellow gold Guam Traditional Bamboo Bracelet carries forward a design rooted in the island's own craft heritage.

USVI | FantaSea Jewelry | Silver & Gold Gemstone Jewelry
Nicole Gariepy has spent over 20 years creating ocean-inspired gemstone jewelry from her St. Croix studio, turning Caribbean color and light into wearable keepsakes. The Eye of the Storm is available in sterling silver, 14K yellow gold, and 14K rose gold — a piece of paradise made in St. Croix, USVI.

Northern Mariana Islands, | GINEN I TÅSI
Based out of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, these pendants are crafted from spondylus — a richly colored shell historically prized across Pacific and Caribbean cultures alike. Featured here: a yellow and white Spondylus Gaosåli on an 18K gold-filled twist chain, and an orange Spondylus Gaosåli on an adjustable gold-filled beaded chain.

USVI | Kiki Creative Jewelry
Crissy Cook is a silversmith on St. John, USVI, and the island's first permanent jewelry artist, working in small handmade batches. This Spiny Oyster Turquoise Heart Ring pairs two richly textured stones into one warm, wearable piece — handmade right on St. John.

DISCOVER Sunday: ZORI ｜Zori Wang (Artist & Designer) ✦You've met the maker. Now meet the work.ZORI's pieces have names —...
08/31/2026

DISCOVER Sunday: ZORI ｜Zori Wang (Artist & Designer) ✦

You've met the maker. Now meet the work.

ZORI's pieces have names — Duet, Float, Embrace, Grasp, Whisper — and each one earns it. Sculptural, slightly absurd, and made for people who find "normal" a little boring. Every design goes through months of sketching and prototyping before being hand-crafted individually, because wearable art built in a rush isn't wearable art at all.

Check out ZORI's DISCOVER profile at the direct link in our Stories 🔗

DISCOVER is a platform for jewelers and jewelry brands to increase visibility and showcase their work to the global audience of NYC Jewelry Week. This edition of DISCOVER is curated by A thousand Facets.

Lost for a century. He revived a dead craft.This is the Croisillon bracelet, designed in 1962 by Jean Schlumberger — the...
08/31/2026

Lost for a century. He revived a dead craft.
This is the Croisillon bracelet, designed in 1962 by Jean Schlumberger — the first designer Tiffany & Co. ever allowed to sign his own work, a distinction the house has extended to only three others since (Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso, and Frank Gehry). Schlumberger was self-taught, trained as a draftsman rather than a jeweler, and treated every piece as sculpture rather than decoration, drawing endlessly from nature and from his own family's history in textile manufacturing.

The Croisillon is where both instincts meet. Its name literally means "crosshatch" in French, referencing the crossed gold pattern that wraps the bracelet like woven fabric rendered in metal. That color comes from paillonné enamel, a labor-intensive 19th-century technique Schlumberger single-handedly revived: translucent enamel applied in repeated layers over gold foil, fired at high heat between each coat, building a richness and depth of color that's nearly impossible to replicate by any other method.

The bracelet's fame, though, came from how it was worn. President Kennedy bought Jacqueline Kennedy her first Croisillon at Tiffany in 1962, and she loved it so much she began collecting it in multiple colors, wearing several stacked on her wrist as part of her everyday style. She wore them so constantly that the press coined a nickname for the design itself: "the Jackie bracelets," a title that has stuck for over sixty years.

Schlumberger's legacy at Tiffany extends well beyond this one design — from the Bird on a Rock brooch to the setting of the 128.54-carat Tiffany Diamond — but the Croisillon remains one of his most enduring. Proof of that: Tiffany released a limited-edition watch collection this year, reviving the Croisillon's paillonné enamel and cross-stitch motif in miniature on a dial, sixty-four years after the original bracelet debuted.

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