Moments before Game 4 of the NBA Finals kicked off at the Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday night, the Toronto Raptors gifted Drake with a bespoke, diamond-encrusted OVO jacket worth an estimated $550,000 USD. Fit for the team’s ambassador, the coat, which was reportedly crafted from jersey sourced from a French mill by Toronto’s Garrison Bespoke, features the OVO logo embellished with diamonds placed alongside the Raptor’s…
The U.S. government’s agency in charge of ensuring transparency and fairness in commerce and protecting consumers — the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) — has made far-reaching changes to guidelines long unfairly manipulated by the diamond mining lobby. A six-year review of its guidelines largely followed Diamond Foundry’s input that certain key guidelines dating from 1956 no longer make sense in…
Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down into the upper mantle, bits of carbon, some likely hailing from long-dead life forms were melted and compressed into rigid lattices. Over millions of years, those lattices grew into the most durable, dazzling gems the planet…
Aquamarine is March’s birthstone, which makes for some very lucky people born this month. This stone is gorgeous, and because the raw crystals are usually large, you can find larger gemstones for statement pieces. Aquamarine is a variety of the mineral Beryl, and its name comes from the Latin words “aqua” and “marina” meaning sea water.…
The cut of a diamond is very important to its overall beauty. Cut is so important because it determines how much sparkle, or scintillation, you get from your diamond. When we talk about cut, we aren’t talking about shape (round, square, etc), we’re talking about the way light interacts with the stone. In an ideally cut diamond, all of the…
Written by Christina Rowan Whoever said you needed to be Spanish to host a romantic Spanish-inspired wedding? This romantic style shoot takes us on a colourful journey overseas with its inspiration hailing from the rugged, old world beauty of southern Spain. Designed by Swoon Weddings & Events and captured by Ever After Photographers, the scene at Hacienda Sarria conjures up recollections of rolling…
Because one pair of shoes is never enough…especially on your wedding day! I wore the YSL platforms on the left for photos all day…they were so comfy! My hubby is much much taller than me so I definitely needed the height, but I’m not someone who can last in heels all day. The YSL platforms were the perfect pair of…
This pearl and diamond ring is a great statement piece without being to heavy and gawdy. For this custom creation the diamond X gives the ring a really nice width and the large pearl looks like it is floating.
This vintage inspired pendant features layers of round diamond halos with different setting styles. Save
My street chic look of the day! Diamond pavé rings are always classic, and easily go from day to night. Save
My garden of blossoming bling! These diamond flowers are the prefect statement ring! #SKsparkle Save
Today is a go big or go home kind of day! 5.50 carats of amazing sparkle from this round brilliant diamond. Approved and ready for designing. Check out the video below… Save
