This Kiwi jewellery designer sells to the rich and famous (and royal)

This Kiwi jewellery designer sells to the rich and famous (and royal)
Jessica McCormack in her London boutique. (Photo: Casey Moore).
Australian Financial Review
The first piece of jewellery Jessica McCormack designed – a set of diamond and silver earrings called Messenger of the Gods – she didn’t want to sell. Never mind that the buyer was Rihanna.“About 13 years ago, I asked a workshop in Hatton Garden to make me a piece of jewellery based on Hermes’ winged hat and sandals,” she says. “It was silver with yellow gold on the back, which is a Victorian technique. They said ‘that’s weird, why are you going to put diamonds with silver?’. I said, &...

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