Carol Woolton

"Stones can be used to encourage reflection and the facing of challenges in a new way, helping to alter incentives and evaluations to improve outcomes"

Clear green peridot has a chequered past. Its few moments in the fashion spotlight have been brief. An early arrival in ancient Egypt failed to lend staying power, and peridot languished unappreciated on the jewellery landscape until picked up for jazzy art-deco pieces and 1930s Cartier, before being cast into the wilderness again. Yes, it pops up from time to time, but mostly attending another coloured stone, like a pretty gemstone lady-in-waiting. Admirers of the green spectrum have historical…

For 42 years he travelled the world searching for historic diamonds, now he’s headed to Bond Street

Robust edifices expressed in jewels have become a comfort

Tear your eyes away from Regé-Jean Page, the hot Duke in Shonda Rhimes’s Bridgerton, and you’ll notice one of the most joyful things about the show is the jewellery. Glittering faux-heirloom jewels are depicted with metres of Swarovski crystal and pearls used in a grandiloquent mash-up of fairytale jewels in Regency London. Each episode dazzles with maximalism manifested in candy-colour jewels and sequin embellishments on Empire line silks; gloriously exaggerated but somehow never excessive. Rem…

“Our work is at the core of representing society and the heritage of a nation, and we need to reflect that,” Anne Glossop, the first female Deputy Master of the Mint, tells British Vogue

The tent has been replaced by a workshop

“When I first saw this stone my heart skipped a beat”

The rarely-seen Spencer tiara will appear alongside dozens of other historic headpieces in a Sotheby’s exhibition marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson may be the next James Bond, but the actor first dominated headlines as an 18-year-old when he began dating the 42-year-old director of ‘Nowhere Boy’.