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A Gourmet Gazette Fine Fashion Find: Elisabetta Franchi At the Milan Fashion Week

By The Gourmet Gazette on March 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Italian fashion designer Elisabetta Franchi offered an exercise in elegance and style at the Milan Fashion Week last February 28th. Her fall/winter ready-to-wear collection was presented in a refined albeit practically empty […]

Lasting Lapis Lazuli

By The Gourmet Gazette on June 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The dreamy brilliantly blue gem lapis lazuli has intrigued mankind since Antiquity. It has been known for at least 6,000 years and draws its name from the Persian word lazhward meaning blue […]

Story: The Alexandrite Story

By The Gourmet Gazette on July 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Paris, France – It was a unique and unusual high point of the Paris Fashion Week. And it revolved around a rare gemstone, the mysterious alexandrite once mined in the Ural Mountains […]