J. Crew Jewelry Collection

Outfitter J. Crew now boasts a jewelry line, accessible at its new J. Crew Collection shop on Madison Avenue in New York City or online. The parts are easy and sensibly cost, but better matched for weekend wear than your best black-tie outfit. There is a Fashion class as well as a Fine category. Fashion encompasses necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, and pins in charges from $25 - $228. Fine encompasses mostly pearl pieces -- earrings, bracelets, and necklaces -- in charges from $65 - $495.

Robbins Brothers Files For Chapter 11

Engagement ring string of connections, Robbins Brothers, has become the newest jewelry shop to document for Chapter 11. The 16-store string of connections sent an account itself as the "world's large-scale commitment store" doing a brisk enterprise in precious gem rings and charming promise purchasers with a newspapers crusade boasting Skip and Steve, the Robbins Brothers.

The shop will be broken into two components and sold. As National Jeweler reports, bankruptcy articles display that the business will be split up into two components and sold. Unless it is miraculously released by another purchaser, Robbins Bros. Corp. will deal the California shops to Robbins Bros. Jewelry, fundamentally to itself, while Canadian jewelry constructor and retailer Spence Diamonds will purchase the three Houston shops and Illinois locations. Robbins Brothers amplified quickly over the past couple of years and was finished in by liquidity matters which were aggregated by the slowdown in buyer spending. Sales declined round three per hundred last year.

The three-generation, family-owned shop moved from being a little jeweler to increasing into shopping centres and then in 1995 unfastening a large bridal-only store.

Jewelry shops have been especially strike by the awful finances (hence the need for a Sparkle Week). Fortunoff is in the method of liquidation and Zale's is concluding 115 stores. With internet sales taking a larger chunk of jewelry sales each year, jewelry shops were currently feeling squeezed. The recession could lead more little jewelry chains to close their doors.

Darby Scott Jewelry

Darby Scott, whoever formerly brought ourselves this spectacular, $260,000 Green Tourmaline and Diamond Minaudière Clutch, has a jewelry queue you've just obtained to see.

Available at both high end and moderate prices, the Darby Scott Amber Statement Necklace (available on her website in this shade and also a wealthy "Dark Amber") at right is just $450 -- so you can even fray Darby Scott during the recession. If your flavors tend toward the more expensive, perceive the gallery downstairs for her decadent $8,800 grey agate and malachite necklaces.

Darby Scott isn't just producing fine jewelry and classy purses; retain an eye on DarbyScott.com -- she's headed rear to clothing, and she's approximate to launch her fresh line. We have a mood we're headed to be perceiving opulent fabrics and very expensive, glittering details. We would expect no fewer from Darby Scott!

Check out more of her sparkling, glamorous plans in the chunky style for which we have reach love her below:

Ultra Diamonds Files For Bankruptcy

Another jewelry retailer is opposite trouble. Ultra Stores Inc. which is the parent business of Ultra Diamonds, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy defence last week. The string of connections filed a "pre-packaged" bankruptcy with its vendors and banks and wants to appear from bankruptcy soon. The business will close 12 of its 181 shops and states it is opposite a liquidity shortage. It functions Ultra Diamonds and Premier Fine Jewelry shops as well as running permitted agencies in Burlington Coat Factory and Filene's Basement stores.

Ultra has said that its sales declined 10.8 per hundred for year completed February 1, 2009, which components in a fall of 18.9 per hundred throughout the winter vacation season. Ultra will function as a "debtor-in-possession" throughout the Chapter 11 proceedings, which means that it will mostly be enterprise as common for the chain. The business is recorded as as having $10 million to $50 million in assets but furthermore $10 million to $50 million in liabilities. It has protected $30 million in financing.

Barbie Ring

Apparently Barbie (yes the Mattel doll) chooses promotions want else somebodies (pseudo celebrity? ten year old girl icon?). Currently she is embracing Bulgari's cooperation of Save the Children International's "Rewrite the Future" campaign towards fund education efforts for children within poverty stricken areas of the world.

In contribution towards a 1 million euro donation towards the Rewrite the Future campaign, Bulgari has designed a rope of 11 jewelry pieces and seven timepieces whose sales shall assistance fund their loyalty of ten million euros towards Save the Children via the end of 2009. One of the jewelry pieces is a signed silver Bulgari ring with a Save the Children inscription engraved interior the band. The ring shall retail for $555. Barbie is modeling the ring - although I don't think you can get that particular volume at your locally Bulgari boutique.

As a guy I've never performed with Barbie dolls, but it glances want she got a bit of a makeover for this Bulgari selling photo as one of the somebodies the promote the campaign. Or perhaps her hair glances want that right out of the box? You can see Barbie appearing off her Bulgari ring, which powers be one of the most priceless Barbie accessories available. Other somebodies (I am not genuinely convinced the fact that Barbie is a somebody at everybody, many want a chip of pop culture) that cooperation the Bulgari Save the Children Rewrite the Future campaign so far include: Julianne Moore, Benicio Del Toro, Ben Stiller, Sally Field, Sting, Willem Dafoe, Rosario Fiorello, Gabriele Muccino, Jason Lewis, Andy Garcia, Valeria Golino, Isabella Rossellini and Debra Messing.

Ongwat Tiger's Eye Ring

This may be one of the more extraordinary rings included on Luxist but one that captures a boulder in its gorgeous and natural state. The Tiger's Eye Ring by Ongwat is basically built and token is create, yet with such a large boulder (measures at 2 1/2") being the focal purpose, this ring stands out. Although tiger eye may not be deliberated the most luxurious of boulders to decide from, the assorted hues that draw close through against a gold plated setting is very complimentary.

Africa Rings by Asscher

Diamond jeweler Royal Asscher has composed a fresh harvest paged Stars of Africa via Royal Asscher. The Stars of Africa harvest consists of 18 rings which character diamonds coated in a fluid-filled sapphire dome. The stones can shift in a way indistinguishable to the way that sparkles shake indoor a snow globe, pitching off shoot and color as they move.The ring harvest is available in white, yellow, and rose gold and priced from $4,950 to $7,900 retail. The rings shall be available in shops later this month.

For each ring marketed Royal Asscher shall donate $150 from the sale of each ring to educational, medical, micro-economic and self sufficiency software in Africa. . In 2008, Royal Asscher launched the Star of Africa program, which gazes to renew infrastructure in Africa via composing funding for healthcare, education and self sufficiency programs.