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Balmain promotes its jewelry line with dedicated corners in its stores

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Cassidy STEPHENS

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April 27, 2023

A year after introducing its first ever jewelry line, Balmain seems to want to accelerate this high potential segment. The Parisian fashion house, owned since 2016 by the Mayhoola fund belonging to the Qatari royal family, has recently set up corners dedicated to its jewelery collections in some of its most important stores, such as those in Paris, New York and Milan, and plans to set up more in its Shanghai and Los Angeles flagships.

Balmain has made changes in some of its boutiques to make room for the jewelry – Balmain
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Man charged after jewelry stolen from homes damaged in Calgary house explosion – Calgary

A man has been charged in relation to a break-in at an evacuated residence following a house explosion and fire in northeast Calgary last month.

On March 30 at around 1:45 pm, a woman and her husband were returning to their house in the 700 block of Maryvale Way NE after a house explosion sent 10 people to hospital and damaged other houses several days earlier.


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Calgary house explosion leaves 10 in hospital, 6 in life-threatening condition


When they arrived, they were confronted by a man who was leaving their home, who claimed to be a security guard. The

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Jewelry Shines as a Fundamental Art Form

SANTA FE — Unlike any other medium, jewelry becomes a part of its audience, worn and carried throughout life by its wearer. “I do believe jewelry is the most fundamental form of human art,” said Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke Creek) in an interview with Hyperallergic. Fleetwood is the curator of The Stories We Carry and assistant professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. “There is something in us that compels us to adorn ourselves. Jewelry is related to this idea of ​​identity as performance. We put things on our bodies that either project how we want to be seen,

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Organizer in 2019 jewelry store robbery sentenced

NATIONAL CITY, Calif. – The organizer in an armed robbery of a South Bay jewelry store was sentenced to 96 months in prison, United States Attorney Randy Grossman’s office said in a news release Monday.

Trenelle Cannon, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Robbery in federal court for his involvement in the robbery of the Alpha and Omega Jewelry Store in National City back in 2019.

At around 12:25 pm on March 26, 2019, National City Police Department officials said three masked individuals went into the store

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