allyson bainbridge riccardi | strategist & creator
NYFW went by in a blur, as usual. Those of us who love fashion devoured up-to-the-minute "reporting" on the shows, street style and trend analysis. And if you even casually browsed any of that coverage, you might have noticed the week-long publicity blitz promoting the global launch of Porter Magazine, the latest offshoot of the Net-A-Porter empire...
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In early January I sat down with my very pregnant friend Joanna Bengoa to talk about her career as a jewelry designer and her collaboration with Hatch Jewelry (which I helped to facilitate!) It's a bit different from my other interviews for HJ as we just sat down in her apartment, rather than her studio. The result is a bit more intimate and I hope, shows not only what a talented designer she is, but also the ambition, smarts and artistic tendencies that helped her get to where she is today. Click here to view the full post.
For the most part, my writing over the past few years has been focused on the trade. So I was really excited when Nicole Bromstad asked me to do an editorial on bridal jewelry trends for 2014, to be featured in the 2nd annual edition of The Wedding Ring Book.
Read MoreThe third annual Fashion Forward conference theme was once again one of the must-attend events of the year for fashion brand teams. Organized around a theme of "global," this year's self-ascribed anti-conference was thought-provoking, social and comfortably luxurious in the Crosby Hotel event space.
Read MoreI see beaucoup jewelry on a daily basis: online, in-person in showrooms, at trade events, in magazines... I make it my business to check out what's selling, what's getting lots of coverage and what everyone is wearing (helps that I love doing this!) But I have to say that the exhibit I visited this past Friday surprised me in the best kind of way.
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