When you’re out looking for a new designer line for your store, where do you start? What questions do you ask – and what answers do...
Outside The Box: Ritz-Carlton Boutique Opening Published in the January/February 2014 issue LANDSBERG JEWELERS (WHITE PLAINS, NY) When Jonathan and Jeffrey Landsberg opened Landsberg Jewelers’ new...
Floor Plan: Hing Wa Lee JewelersSAN GABRIEL, CA Twenty-two shop-in-shops, eight 80-inch video panels and a store built like a vault highlight this manufacturer-turned-retailer. BY THE...
Why this emerging designer’s fine collection is cleaning up on the industry award circuit. BY TRACE SHELTON Published in the January/February 2014 issue While Elizabeth Garvin...
Over the years, I’ve heard lots of complaints from jewelers about consumers being duped into buying poor-quality diamonds by unscrupulous retailers and/or labs. Long’s Jewelers of...
In 2006 , I had the good fortune to travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas to cover INSTORE’s America’s Coolest Store for that year, Underwood’s Jewelers, owned by...
Outside The Box: Zoofari Trunk Show Published in the September/October 2013 issue Borsheims (Omaha, NE) In July, Borsheims held its second event to kick off the...
Floor Plan: KEVIN SEELEKevin’s Fine Jewelry, Totowa, NJ Tuscany comes to New Jersey in a showroom featuring Venetian plaster, vaulted ceilings and a mural of the...
They started out without a single piece of jewelry in their store.
Hearts on Fire ELLE’s second annual “Women in Television” event, hosted by ELLE Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers, featured 100 of the television industry’s top actresses, actors and...
One of the questions I hear most often from retailers is, “What have you learned as a result of seeing so many stores and talking to...
SINCE 1919, REIS-NICHOLS has been a well-known jewelry name in Indianapolis, but more recently, the store has become famous for its groundbreaking holiday parties and events....
Before the SMART Show, the session I was most looking forward to seeing was the “Strategies for Advertising Fine & Designer Jewelry” panel with Dan Gordon...
For an upcoming story in INDESIGN, I asked Jim Rosenheim, CEO of Tiny Jewel Box (Washington, D.C.) and America’s Coolest Store in 2011, if he had...
These stores made it to 100 — even 200. Here's what you can learn from them.
Outside The Box: Palladium Collection Launch Published in the January-February 2013 issue Founded more than 25 years ago, Jacob & Co., the luxury timepiece and diamond...
Floor Plan: Sather’s Leading JewelersFort Collins, CO BY THE INDESIGN TEAM Published in the January-February 2013 issue Asavings-and-loan building constructed in 1965 might not seem like...
Characters Meet 10 jewelers you’re not soon to forget. BY TRACE SHELTON Published in the December 2012 issue In a performance, a “character” is a part...
While searching online for experts on retail display, I came across a blog called “Retail Minded” that had some exceptional common-sense tips for your holiday displays....
Aucoin Hart Jewelers in Metairie (just outside of New Orleans) is one of those stores I’d always wanted to visit. The Aucoins are known as top-notch...
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