Marion Fasel spent practically twenty years accountable for jewelry and watch protection at InStyle journal and has authored books together with The Final Information to Marriage ceremony Jewellery (with Penny Proddow) and Assouline’s Bulgari Assortment trilogy, in addition to curating and consulting on exhibitions about Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. In 2016, she based The Adventurine, an internet jewelry journal masking new releases, designer profiles, bridal guides, breaking information, public sale highlights and red-carpet stories.

Since incomes a level within the historical past of ornamental arts from New York’s Parsons Faculty of Design, Levi Higgs has gone on to turn out to be the pinnacle archivist for the jewelry home David Webb — a favorite of Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Barbra Streisand and the Duke of Westminster. A feast for the eyes, his Instagram web page is devoted to the showcasing — and typically sporting — of probably the most stunning classic and vintage jewels from museums, public sale homes and gala’s, in addition to David Webb’s personal spectacular items.

Artwork of the Jewel is run by Claudine Seroussi Bretagne, a PhD scholar at London’s Courtauld Institute of Artwork. Though her educational speciality is French jewels made between 1920 and 1929, on Instagram she additionally shares a few of her favorite items from the primary half of the twentieth century made throughout Europe and America. Whereas many are from established names similar to Cartier and Jean Schlumberger, extra obscure jewellers additionally function, amongst them Dusausoy, Marcus & Co. and Mellerio. Every of the works proven is accompanied by a superb mini historical past lesson within the caption.

The Gemological Institute of America is the world’s main analysis and schooling centre for all issues referring to gems and jewelry. The non-profit organisation, which was based in 1931, established the ‘4Cs’ of diamond high quality: reduce, color, readability and carat weight. With greater than 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 followers, its Instagram web page shares photos of magnificent historic jewels, in addition to fascinating info about valuable stones. As an illustration, do you know that each gem has its personal distinctive ‘fingerprint’ of inclusions and deformations? Or that garnets, whereas normally wine-red in color, additionally are available inexperienced and even rainbow-striped varieties?

Enormous assertion stones are Tracey Ellison’s factor. The South African influencer, who now lives in America, travels the globe looking for the most important, brightest and boldest diamonds and gems — typically reaching double digits in carats — and shares them together with her a million followers, a tally that makes her the most well-liked jewelry influencer on Instagram. Look out for some spectacular rocks provided by the likes of Harry Winston, Graff and Tiffany & Co.

Annabel Davidson is a London-based jewelry journalist who writes for titles together with Self-importance Truthful, Vogue. and the Monetary Instances, masking subjects similar to ‘Topaz Jewelry to Shine In’ and ‘Every part You Have to Know About Lab-Grown Diamonds’. She additionally has a ardour for championing a number of the coolest up-and-coming designers, sharing their newest designs throughout her feed.

In 1999, Victoire de Castellane was tasked with establishing a high-end jewelry line on the Parisian vogue home Christian Dior. Over the next twenty years she turned probably the most influential designers within the business, with a status for creating vivid and daring asymmetrical rings, necklaces and brooches. ‘Ladies put on jewelry so in another way now, particularly younger ladies,’ she instructed Vogue. in 2018. ‘Earlier than, they had been far more bourgeois — ladies wore full units of jewelry, or they simply wore it to exit. Now, it’s extra bohemian… For me, jewelry needs to be a part of you.’

The previous equipment director at Elle journal, Maria Dueñas Jacobs might be described as a maximalist magpie in the case of jewelry — she is commonly seen sporting a number of glowing necklaces and rings on the similar time. She can also be the founding father of Tremendous Smalls, a playful vary of jewelry and equipment for youngsters. Her feed is filled with images of the gathering being modelled by her three daughters — and infrequently the household cat — at residence in New York.

Francesca Cartier Brickell is the great-granddaughter of the youngest of the three Cartier brothers — Louis, Pierre and Jacques — who remodeled their household’s jewelry home, based in 1847, into a worldwide model within the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties. In 2019 she wrote The Cartiers, a e-book packed together with her late grandfather’s anecdotes referring to the working of the London department of the enterprise. On Instagram she posts a few of her favorite excerpts, alongside photographs from the household archive and images of her travels the world over to analysis a few of Cartier’s most well-known boutiques and shoppers.

Vanessa Cron is a French jewelry historian who has researched well-known gems together with the ‘Blue Belle’ sapphire, the ‘Peregrina’ pearl and the ‘Grand Mazarin’ diamond. She additionally lectures on the historical past of jewelry design on the Geneva Faculty of Artwork and Design. Her feed combines archival photographs of historic jewels alongside together with her hashtag ‘casualfriday’, which examines celebrities previous and current and the jewels they put on. Current examples embody Madonna photographed together with her assortment on a lodge mattress in 1985, and the American baseball star Joc Pederson, who performs sporting a pearl necklace.

The Paris-based jewelry designer (and grandson of an antiquarian) Marc Auclert is on the forefront of the development for sporting historical jewels. He specialises in repurposing classical artefacts, similar to cameos and cash, to create trendy items which might be liked by celebrities together with France’s First Girl, Brigitte Macron.

The aptly named Jessica Diamond is a jewelry editor, author and stylist working for titles together with Condé Nast Traveller and The Sunday Instances Type journal. Her web page is an effective way to remain updated with new designers and the newest traits, offered in each candid snaps and shiny shoots. As a jewelry journalist, Diamond additionally will get to go to some enviable locations looking for the very best gems, from St Barts to Monaco, Venice and Japan.

Based mostly in New York’s Diamond District, Eric Mavani is the go-to jeweller for superstar sports activities stars and musicians similar to Odell Beckham Jr. and Doja Cat. He not too long ago made a customized white-and-pink-diamond choker for Kim Kardashian. On Instagram he reveals off his newest work, together with big, jewel-encrusted pendants and gem-studded watches, in addition to pictures of his shoppers sporting their new equipment on crimson carpets and personal yachts.

Paris-based gemologist Katerina Perez has labored at Tiffany & Co., Chaumet, Asprey and Boghossian, buying greater than 400,000 followers on Instagram alongside the best way. In 2013 she pivoted to working an internet jewelry journal devoted to telling the tales behind tremendous jewels, within the agency perception that ‘jewelry is an artwork type, not merely a type of self-adornment’. For many who aspire to an analogous life-style, she now even runs a course in the way to create nice jewelry content material.

‘Excessive jewelry fanatic’ Sharon Novak has a factor for beautiful jewels — particularly tiaras with royal provenance. The curatorial advisor and gemologist, who additionally owns a luxurious jewellery-for-hire enterprise in New York, provides an Instagram feed crammed with beautiful examples worn by Prussian princesses, Bourbon nobles and the wives of maharajahs, and every picture is accompanied by a caption outlining the thing’s historical past. It’s an enchanting glimpse into the world of stately bejewelled headpieces.

This web page belongs to Will Kahn, a contributing editor at City & Nation  journal. His feed mixes shiny photoshoots stuffed with valuable gems with pages of collaged jewels and styling ideas from his pocket book. Current topics to which he has turned his consideration embody ‘Golden Summer season Chains’, ‘Earrings for New 12 months’s Eve’ and ‘Non-Boring Engagement Rings That Value Much less Than $10,000’.

Author, historian and curator Carol Woolton has spent the previous twenty years on the helm of all issues jewelry for British Vogue. Previous to that, she was the primary ever jewelry editor at Tatler. She has additionally penned 5 jewellery-themed books — the newest being The New Stone Age: Concepts and Inspiration for Dwelling with Crystals. Between writing and modifying, she has discovered time to create the profitable podcast If Jewels May Discuss, analyzing subjects such because the historical past of piercings, jewels in historical Egypt and sustainable jewelry gathering. Her Instagram feed retains followers knowledgeable of her newest work throughout each platform.

The Chinese language jewelry designer Wallace Chan has a number of spectacular claims to his title, together with having invented his personal gem-carving and jade-polishing strategies, making a porcelain 5 occasions stronger than metal, and designing one of many world’s costliest items of jewelry — a diamond necklace valued at $200 million. He was additionally the primary up to date Chinese language jewelry designer to have his work within the British Museum’s everlasting assortment. On Instagram, he shares a few of his newest items, typically precious-stone-encrusted butterflies and flowers which might be akin to beautiful miniature sculptures.

British Royal Jewels is the results of one nameless Instagrammer’s obsession with the Home of Windsor’s jewelry assortment. Day by day posts uncover the tales behind a number of the most well-known items, similar to Queen Elizabeth II’s ceremonial crowns and orbs, and in addition have a look at what the present royals, together with the Princess of Wales and the Queen Consort, are sporting for his or her on a regular basis engagements. Sure treasures are given a extra detailed remedy — a latest instance being King Edward VII’s beautiful Sandringham Fee, which consisted of greater than 100 Fabergé animal sculptures.

Christie’s Jewelry division — the market chief within the class for 26 consecutive years — has common gross sales of the best stones and jewels throughout America, Europe and Asia. Stunning objects have come to our salerooms from the personal collections of HRH Princess Margaret, Marie Antoinette and Elizabeth Taylor, alongside masterpieces by Fabergé, Tiffany and JAR. And prior to now decade, Christie’s has bought a number of record-breaking diamonds, together with the ‘Princie’, the ‘Pink Legacy’ and the ‘Oppenheimer Blue’, which achieved $39.3 million, $50.6 million and $57.5 million respectively.