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A Jeweler’s Guide To The Blogosphere, Part II: Two More Sites Worth Seeing | May 26, 2015 (0 comments)
Merrick, NY—In the May 14 edition of The Centurion Newsletter, we brought you a guide to the top jewelry bloggers in the business. Since then, we discovered two more who were inadvertently left off our first list. Here are two more blogs we believe are worth a look:
Monica Stephenson, idazzle.com. Monica Stephenson of idazzle.com has been writing about jewelry and the people who make it since 2008. She loves delving into the true inspiration of emerging and established artists who use precious metals and gems as their medium. Through words and images, she seeks to connect jewelry designers to consumers who want to collect fine artisan jewelry, and is passionate about telling the stories of jewelry designers, and reporting trends.
Jewelry has always been Stephenson’s career and passion. Prior to 2008, she spent 12 years working in high-end independent jewelry stores, learning everything she could about gems, precious metals, designers and how the industry works, and attending GIA. In 1998—before many jewelers even had websites—she founded and ran a website that helped link thousands of consumers to reputable retailers in their area. She also helped Amazon.com launch its jewelry store in 2004.
Stephenson has been the editor of the Contemporary Jewelry Design Group’s website since 2012 and was the first blogger nominated for an Award for Excellence in Media from the Women’s Jewelry Association in 2013. She has been featured in trade magazines such as InDesign as an industry and style expert, and in 2013 she opened a showroom in Seattle for private clients and a few carefully curated fine jewelry designers.
Katerina Perez, katerinaperez.com. Katerina Perez, founder and editor-in-chief of katerinaperez.com, is a Russian-born, London-based international jewelry reporter. Brought up by artistic parents—a mother who restored paintings and a father who specialized in antique furniture—she discovered jewelry at the age of three. She now not only loves jewelry, she lives it.
Says Perez, “I prefer writing about fine jewelry and precious gemstones rather than anything else because I feel that these are what truly represent the beauty of human expression. Due to the time and effort spent on designing fine jewelry pieces and fashioning gemstones, they tend to possess a deeper meaning than the accessories that go in and out of fashion.”
She founded katerinaperez.com in 2013 to celebrate the world’s most exquisite and extraordinary jewels. It provides wide-ranging independent editorial coverage ranging from announcements of brands’ new collections, jewelry-focused events, reports from major exhibitions, shopping guides, and trend overviews. She also writes features for various printed publications on a freelance basis.
Top image: theguardian.co.uk