Jewellery World Magazine - February 2022

News
Nadja Swarovski steps down
After 26 years in the family business,
Nadja Swarovski, the public face of
the Austrian crystal giant, Swarovski
International Holding, stepped down
from the company at the end of
December.
Nadja Swarovski was the 126-year-old
company’s first female member to the
executive board when she joined in
1995.
Swarovski was founded in 1895 by
Daniel Swarovski in Wattens, Austria, and has historically been run by his
descendents. The previous two years have seen a vigorous management
reorganisation including a slew of layoffs and high-profile departures, including
the resignation of fellow board member (and cousin), Robert Buchbauer who
was CEO at the time.
Nadja Swarovski established the Atelier Swarovski brand, and collaborated with
luxury leaders such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor & Rolf.
She will remain involved in the Swarovski Foundation, which she set up in 2013.
“My time at the Swarovski company has been the most rewarding journey—
what started with creativity and design has culminated in human empowerment
and sustainability, and using Swarovski’s platform to support the environment
and the community has been the greatest privilege of my career,” she said.
Megan Fox’s engagement ring
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly
(aka Colson Baker) have made it
official. Rocker Baker has been
working on the design of the ring
with British jewellery designer
Stephen Webster for several
months.
The musician described it on his Instagram post:
“I know tradition is one ring, but I designed
it with Stephen Webster to be two: the
emerald (her birthstone) and the diamond (my
birthstone) set on two magnetic bands of thorns
that draw together as two halves of the same
soul forming the obscure heart that is our love.”
Stephen Webster explained the magnets holding
the two rings together were buried in the gold.
CIBJO assembly postponed
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has announced
that the gathering of its General Assembly, which had
been scheduled to take place in Vicenza, Italy, on January
24 and 25, has been postponed to Thursday, March 17,
and Friday, March 18. It will be held at the same venue.
The announcement comes after the Italian Exhibition
Group (IEG), which will be hosting the CIBJO event, said
that it is postponing its January VICENZAORO trade show
to March 17-21, 2022, as a result of the global upsurge in
COVID-19 infections that currently underway. The meeting
of CIBJO General Assembly will take place in the Vicenza
Exposition Centre concurrently with the trade show.
The CIBJO General Assembly will be the closing session
of the 2021 Virtual CIBJO Congress, which took place
over eight days from November 4 to 8 and November 15
to 18. It will be a hybrid session, with delegates meeting
in person during the show in Vicenza, while the event is
simultaneously streamed live to other participants around
the world.
Sotheby’s to sell 555 carat black diamond
The Enigma is a carbonado or black diamond weighing
555.55 carats with exactly 55 facets. At one point
considered the largest cut diamond in the world (as
reported by Guinness World Records), the stone is making
its public debut at a Sotheby’s London auction in February.
The stone’s origins
are mysterious.
It’s thought that a
meteoric impact
or a diamondbearing
asteroid
that collided with
Earth created The
Enigma, making it
one of the toughest diamonds in existence, according to
Sotheby’s.
The diamond has been treasured for over two decades by
its current owner and has never been publicly exhibited
or offered on the open market. Shaped after the Middle
Eastern hamsa symbol, the diamond’s form also plays on
the number five, after its weight and facets.
The stone will be offered without reserve and purchase
accept in cryptocurrency.
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