Tag: sustainability

  • Pearls Reimagined: 2025’s Bold New Take on an Age-Old Gem

    Pearls Reimagined: 2025’s Bold New Take on an Age-Old Gem

    Pearls aren’t just for the social elites or old-school anymore. In 2025, they’re bold, baroque, and breaking all the rules with fresh colours, gender-neutral designs, and a new focus on sustainability.   The Pearl Revival: What’s Fueling the Comeback? Pearls are enjoying a cultural renaissance. Once typecast as prim, proper, and painfully predictable, the gem…

  • NEW LEASE OF LIFE

    NEW LEASE OF LIFE

    In the name of sustainability, Simone Jewels is putting the limelight on recycling jewellery. The process, Simone Ng reveals, is not as straightforward as it seems. It is a fact that not all fine jewellery are created equal. This sobering reality is one many a regretful collector have to come to terms with after impulse…

  • ASIAN PRIDE AT THE PROTAGONIST

    ASIAN PRIDE AT THE PROTAGONIST

    In November 2019, The Protagonist staged a show at The Park Avenue Armory in New York City, enticing gem and jewellery lovers to its fold at the Salon of Art + Design. The exhibition was the outcome of a three-year collaboration between Vogue Italia’s The Protagonist and The Salon. According to Vogue Italia’s editor, Francesca…