By SUSAN CHANDLER Published: November 16, 2008 Chicago Tribune Please click here to read the entire article on the Chicago Tribune Website.
Continue readingBy GAIL LIBERMAN Published: October 18, 2008 Palm Beach Daily News There sure is a lot to talk about financially speaking when you hit this season’s first cocktail parties. But instead of talking about how much you lost in the stock market recently, you might discuss the high quality stocks and bonds you own that should perform well in the future. Or, might a more attractive conversation revolve around large, beautiful jewels? Tobina Kahn, vice…
Continue readingBy ELLEN GAMERMAN, CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN and FRANCINE SCWADEL Published: September 19, 2008 Wall Street Journal A nose job in a hospital with a private nurse in attendance had been something of a rite of passage for Joan Asher’s children. But when her fourth and last child was ready for her own rhinoplasty recently, Ms. Asher asked her to postpone it. The financial markets were simply more out of whack than her 16-year-old’s proboscis. “The…
Continue readingBy ROBERT JANJIGIAN Published: July 13, 2008 Palm Beach Daily News Like other watering holes of the wealthy, Palm Beach is rightly perceived as a place filled with acquisitive residents who make an island location a must for the most famous names in high-end retail jewelry from around the world. Estate jewelers and the major auction houses, too, have found the island to be a great source of supply and for their collector-buyers over many…
Continue readingBy ROBERT JANJIGIAN Published: May 04, 2008 Palm Beach Daily News With the “season” coming to a close, there have been some noticeable closings on the island’s retail front. Closed or soon to pack up and vamoose are: Rebecca Romero, Okra, Devonshire, Sub Chrono, N.P. Trent, Hollywould, Grand Armée and Brighton Pavilion. There’s always change in the retail mix of Palm Beach’s shopping districts, so these departures are not so surprising – or indicative of…
Continue readingBy JOYCE REINGOLD Published: March 11, 2008 Palm Beach Daily News OK, so on my way back from Starbucks this morning I really dated myself by telling a young mother that her daughter looked like a “Breck Girl.” She smiled politely but clearly had no idea what I was talking about. I have to stop doing things like that. What’s next — cracking Jack Benny jokes? The Palm Beach demographic is definitely getting younger, with…
Continue readingBy ROBERT JANJIGIAN Published: December 1, 2007 Palm Beach Life Magazine The cuff has been a favorite bracelet style for thousands of years. Its current vogue would give famous cuff fans, such as Cleopatra, Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor and Diana Vreeland, plenty of shapes and styles to choose from in a wide range of materials, from leather and precious and even nonprecious metals to wood. The larger scale transforms a mere bangle into…
Continue readingBy CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Published: April 28, 2007 Wall Street Journal This spring, jewelry designers are nudging shoppers to think pink — pink gold, that is. After seeing consumers gravitate more toward colorful jewelry in recent years, retailers from Fortunoff to Tiffany and designers such as Dominique Cohen are launching more pieces made with pink gold, which is also known as rose gold and is a mix of gold and copper. Saks Fifth Avenue is…
Continue readingBy MARY ELLEM PODMOLIK Published: May 13, 2006 Chicago Tribune Please click here to read the entire article on the Chicago Tribune Website.
Continue readingBy STEPHANIE MURPHY Published: May 7, 2006 Palm Beach Daily News All that glitters is not gold. But there may be a gleam in the eyes of anyone looking at 25-year-high prices for the precious metal, which flirted with $684 an ounce at the close of business Friday. Buying and selling abounds, based on dealers’ reports of increased gold activity in Palm Beach and elsewhere. “Gold and oil go together and are continuing to go…
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