“Brooches for me were always a piece of jewelry a grandmother would wear," says South Africa-based jewelry artist and master goldsmith Birgit Duval, "but when I got into designing my own pieces and ...

It's no secret that Elizabeth Taylor had a voracious appetite for high jewelry. So important were the pieces she amassed throughout her life—and via her eight husbands—that they were known as the ...

For the better part of human history, men’s jewelry has been unequivocally in. That’s because power has long been synonymous with bejeweled adornment, from ancient Sumerian rulers buried in their gold ...

A new history by Carol Woolton describes how designs rendered in inexpensive materials became a popular accessory genre.