Posts from ‘April, 2009’

As you may have seen flagged up in Retail Jeweller, coming up in the June issue is a feature on the bead craze.  I have the honour of writing it and am in the middle of my research but I am putting out a plea for a help- does anyone have a definitive answer on [...]

One of my favourite BBC3 guilty pleasures is a show called Snog, Marry or Avoid, in which the evidently fake herself Jenny Frost (I was aghast at her fake-tan tide marks last night as she demonstrated how to give yourself a credit crunch pedicure) preaches the glory of natural beauty and classy styling to the [...]

Having faith in the generosity of the Great British public is all well and good, but staking 1,000 designer items on it in the middle of a recession makes me want to sweat just a little. But this is what BrandAlley will be doing in a few short weeks time as it attempts to bust [...]

I don’t want to bore you with the details of the complete nightmare I experienced when I got home from work last night, but I’ll summarise with the short version, as I am in need of a little sympathy.  
I returned to Beak Towers to find a note on my door from the man downstairs, [...]

I have opened myself up to a torrent of email abuse this afternoon. Well, not abuse so much, but certainly far too many emails. A press discount voucher for Kabiri, one of our favourite retailers here at Retail Jeweller, floated into my inbox today, and as instructed by Kabiri I let a few of the other [...]

As the subscribers amongst you should have seen by now, the May issue of Retail Jeweller is the first in our new format.  (If you are not a subscriber, then you should be so sign up now - that’s an order!)  
We think the magazine has been moving in the right direction recently, with a [...]

Retail Jeweller’s ad manager Ash and I went for lunch today with one of my favourite industry cronies Derek Salter. In between general gossiping and celeb spotting (we ate at star hotspot Soho Hotel and saw actor Bradley Walsh and Ed Hardy boss Christian Audigier – both of whom, admittedly, had to be pointed out [...]

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but sugar is a diabetic’s, and Indian jewellery student Asif Kureshi has created a way to merge the two with sugar diamonds.
We’re not talking Haribo rings or pick ‘n’ mix candy necklaces here; Asif has been casting precious metal jewellery but replacing the stones with diamond-shaped sugar. The [...]

In May’s Retail Jeweller we reported that several big name jewellery retailers including Beaverbrooks, Fraser Hart and Links of London will be moving into the new St David’s 2 development in Cardiff. However, since we went to press Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has become one of the many advocates to save a historic pub [...]

One of my favourite stories of a dear friend of mine is when we were stopped by a Friends of the Earth tin-shaker on Camden High Street. Said friend was wearing a rather dazzling white coat, which caught the eye of the shaker and led him to ask if my friend liked polar bears. To [...]