Speaker 1: Hi, everyone.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait for you to hear the full episode
Speaker 2: of Climbing in Heels with Briany Raymond, the Queen of
Speaker 2: Luxury Jewelry. You cannot imagine how many a list celebrities
Speaker 2: she has landed on. Just do a little digging, you
Speaker 2: will lose your mind. I asked my followers to submit
Speaker 2: their jewelry questions and Brian and I are going to
Speaker 2: answer them for you now, so don't miss the full
Speaker 2: interview out this Friday. Sometimes we do like a rapid
Speaker 2: fire thing. But in your case, I actually surveyed my
Speaker 2: listeners and followers with jewelry questions that I want to
Speaker 2: throw out at you. Okay, okay, Roddy, what's your favorite
Speaker 2: way to style a broach?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I love a brooch in the hair. That's probably number one.
Speaker 4: I wore my hair this year to the Emmys thing.
Speaker 4: I also love a broach on a hip like.
Speaker 3: I love it too.
Speaker 2: I used to do that a lot of my styling life.
Speaker 2: I would sometimes cinch like I would just kind of
Speaker 2: rush a little hip like a little drape.
Speaker 1: And then put that birch rate in there. I love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, we continue to be jewelry cull mates. Okay,
Speaker 2: so one, this one is going to be hard for
Speaker 2: you to answer, I think because I get asked it
Speaker 2: in styling life.
Speaker 1: But it's hard.
Speaker 2: What's the one piece of jewelry you cannot live without?
Speaker 4: The one piece of jewelry I cannot live without genre
Speaker 4: or a specific.
Speaker 2: Piece, anything like one specific piece like it could be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to know one specific piece.
Speaker 3: I had it.
Speaker 4: I could not live without my vintage bank leaf Anddarpel's
Speaker 4: engagement ring.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, ding ding ding ding ding. That's
Speaker 2: the right answer. Okay, is it the one I tried
Speaker 2: on the other day?
Speaker 3: Now you haven't seen it. It's because it's too small
Speaker 3: and I can't size it again.
Speaker 4: Vancreas is like, literally, I was like I was a
Speaker 4: size too when I got married.
Speaker 3: I am not even close anymore.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't pinky.
Speaker 4: I could make it a figuring yeah, And Luke's always like,
Speaker 4: why don't you wear that? Very nice worked so hard
Speaker 4: to give you. I'm like, dude, I need to Yeah,
Speaker 4: I need to go back to my free baby stop.
Speaker 2: Okay, pearls seem to be trending again. What's a good
Speaker 2: pearl piece to invest in?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I am a pearl girl through and through always.
Speaker 2: You really are, you really are everything about you says pearls.
Speaker 3: I truly love them.
Speaker 4: And I always laugh too when people are like, oh, well,
Speaker 4: pearls are having a moment, and I'll.
Speaker 1: Be like, I'm like, they never didn't have a moment.
Speaker 3: I'm like, am I so uncool that? To me? I'm like,
Speaker 3: pearls weren't having a moment. I was still worrying.
Speaker 4: A great piece to invest in, I would say, a
Speaker 4: really amazing pair of pearl earrings that you could dress
Speaker 4: up or down. So we actually make I mean not
Speaker 4: to do like a br plug, but we make a
Speaker 4: pair that's on a gold wire and I always love
Speaker 4: it's like a chunky, pretty, sousy pearl, but it kind
Speaker 4: of goes. You can make it dressier or less dressy.
Speaker 4: So great pair of pearl earrings that aren't too fussy.
Speaker 1: Because it's great with a par of jeans and a
Speaker 1: T shirt exactly you.
Speaker 4: Can and if you wanted to make them dressy, then
Speaker 4: you like throw a bunch of necklaces in puffs.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a good question.
Speaker 2: Actually, how can you make an emerald cut diamond that
Speaker 2: you took from a ring into a cool necklace.
Speaker 4: Easy, throw a big, chunky, heavy gold bezel on it
Speaker 4: and put it on a chunky gold curb blank chain.
Speaker 3: And I actually have done this, you have.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. Someone was wearing our dinner this summer
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Was sast exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great advice. What classic pieces do you recommend
Speaker 2: starting your jewelry collection with.
Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 4: I have a few different answers to that, so I'll
Speaker 4: try to keep a sus saying.
Speaker 2: For someone who for someone who doesn't love like massive
Speaker 2: things like keeping it simple.
Speaker 4: I would say, I mean, obviously price point dependent, but
Speaker 4: I think a great pair of studs, or you're at
Speaker 4: a different budget gold hoops highly you know, pretty substantial
Speaker 4: gold hug hoop or a stud I love.
Speaker 3: I love a chunky gold chain.
Speaker 4: Does a have to be you know, any particular brand
Speaker 4: or anything doesn't have to have diamonds. I think a
Speaker 4: great gold chain can do wonders. And I love like
Speaker 4: a classic stainless watch like an old Rolex roll like
Speaker 4: I love like.
Speaker 1: A or even a pretend.
Speaker 3: Like watch for Alexa jacent like.
Speaker 1: Prolexa jacent watch.
Speaker 3: Like a chunky cool watch gold chain.
Speaker 2: Okay, best neckline for a choker as you as I'm
Speaker 2: looking at yours right now, it's.
Speaker 4: Very I actually think chokers can look quite cool worn
Speaker 4: as a caller.
Speaker 3: So sometimes I put a choker on a high necktop.
Speaker 3: I find that very sheep.
Speaker 4: Or against or something that's completely far apart from it.
Speaker 4: I'd never want the choker to feel like it's choking.
Speaker 4: I mean in general, yeah, I too. I always say
Speaker 4: I want things to feel intentional. So, for instance, emerald
Speaker 4: cut necklace, we were saying, I don't want something to
Speaker 4: look like it used to be something else, right, kind
Speaker 4: of you horned it into being something it wasn't meant
Speaker 4: likes the same, either have it on top of the
Speaker 4: cloth or have a lot of of the skin.
Speaker 2: Agreed, like with a plunging neckline's super sexy. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, I love this question. Is Rose
Speaker 2: Gold out? It's taking a pause?
Speaker 4: I mean, I, well, this is me obviously. I never
Speaker 4: always like turn everything into a positive and like never
Speaker 4: see anything I get it.
Speaker 3: I don't super love rose Gold in general.
Speaker 1: Me neither, I like never have me neither.
Speaker 3: Being said, I'm also very very clear when I talk
Speaker 3: to my clients about what I love and what I
Speaker 3: want isn't necessarily what they should do. So if somebody
Speaker 3: wants to.
Speaker 4: Rose gold, I will make the most beautiful rose goold
Speaker 4: old iteration.
Speaker 3: Or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But it's not your personal preference, my personal style.
Speaker 3: I'm a yellow gold girl through.
Speaker 2: And through, same, same, same, same. Okay, this is interesting.
Speaker 2: Two more, what is the most popular diamond shape right
Speaker 2: now for engagement ranks? Because I feel like there's a
Speaker 2: new trend happening, not new trend, it's old, but it's back.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: So we I mean I always try to speak to
Speaker 4: the lens of like what we're doing, not necessarily of.
Speaker 1: Course, what are you getting asked for the most man?
Speaker 3: Right? Don't time? I'm always like so focused, don't we're doing?
Speaker 4: We get asked for a lot of antique stones, So
Speaker 4: it's something that I work with a lot antique old Euros,
Speaker 4: which I love.
Speaker 3: An anti goold duro just for.
Speaker 2: Those going to say, please define me to the speakers.
Speaker 4: An antiquolduro typically is quantified as a stone that is
Speaker 4: antique so cut eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds that has
Speaker 4: fewer facets, which means it has a large sort of
Speaker 4: glassy faceting pattern and it reflects light differently as opposed
Speaker 4: to a modern or brilliant cut, which has more facets
Speaker 4: more like twinkly crushed ask. The old stones have the bigger,
Speaker 4: wider glassy facets. So anti cushions, anti boldiuros, we do
Speaker 4: a lot of that sort of asher. Asher is tough
Speaker 4: because it presents typically much smaller than it is. Yes,
Speaker 4: a bottom heavy asher can look a lot smaller than
Speaker 4: it is, so I don't Yes, of course we do
Speaker 4: beautiful ashers, but no, I don't see that as having
Speaker 4: quite as strong of a moment as an anti.
Speaker 2: I have seen Marquis coming back, have you, Yes, I
Speaker 2: have seen pears and Marquis, and I was like.
Speaker 3: What, so a Marquee. We just made the second Sloane ring.
Speaker 4: So Sloan's like one of our collections with a like
Speaker 4: it's a sort of signature, is a thick gold bezel
Speaker 4: like this one.
Speaker 1: I love her.
Speaker 4: So we just we just made a big Marquis with
Speaker 4: that thick old bezil and said it east time and
Speaker 4: it looked it really lent itself well to that orientation,
Speaker 4: and it was funny because I had a few, you know,
Speaker 4: people like my age and you know, people of different
Speaker 4: sort of generations who not my sort of more you know,
Speaker 4: not my young twenty two year old people.
Speaker 1: More like who want a cushion cup with my.
Speaker 3: And then they look at it they went, oh, wait,
Speaker 3: that's Marquis. I thought I hated Marquis saying it's all complexed.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's the way you see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love a marquee in in a state like
Speaker 2: vintage setting.
Speaker 3: Is like so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Okay, last question, because this is a long debate that
Speaker 2: I think will be debated for a long time. Thoughts
Speaker 2: are natural versus lab grown diamonds?
Speaker 3: So funny. I knew you were going to say that,
Speaker 3: and I did, like, obviously I did not have that.
Speaker 1: I have a lot, I have a lot of thoughts, So.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I will say this one.
Speaker 4: I will lead with I only exclusively, happily, only work
Speaker 4: natural lines.
Speaker 3: I am a natural diamond girl.
Speaker 4: That being said, obviously, everyone should do what feels right
Speaker 4: to them. Our specific ethos and our brand sort of
Speaker 4: path will always be to exclusively work with natural stones.
Speaker 4: I also don't work with synthetic colored stone lab grown
Speaker 4: obviously is a separate thing, and I completely understand that.
Speaker 4: I will say this, I personally feel when I look
Speaker 4: down at something I know, I'm like, oh god, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to be so like you know, you're good.
Speaker 1: There's no right or wrong answer, honestly.
Speaker 4: Totally, I'll say, for me, when I look down at
Speaker 4: my hand and if I am wearing a cubic sirconia
Speaker 4: or I imagine a lab or a something that is not
Speaker 4: the natural version of what it is, it feels less
Speaker 4: precious and I like to feel really special and precious.
Speaker 3: In obviously there are many times I do not feel
Speaker 3: special and precious.
Speaker 4: But when I am thinking about luxury acquisitions and things
Speaker 4: that are truly there to provide for me, like joy
Speaker 4: and those like delicious, happy, excited feelings, the jewelry and
Speaker 4: you know, beautiful clothing and are things that I the
Speaker 4: sort of peripheral s. I don't know how we want
Speaker 4: to say, but I really want it to be the
Speaker 4: real thing, and I want it to have been the
Speaker 4: natural version of what it is. And so I feel
Speaker 4: really strongly that.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the wrong answer.
Speaker 2: I think that's a really great, honest truthful answer, and
Speaker 2: I think you're going to get people coming up in
Speaker 2: this world that only want lab that only you know
Speaker 2: and and like you said, personal preference. But I do
Speaker 2: really appreciate and respect that you are saying, this is
Speaker 2: your brand ethos, this is your choice, this is where
Speaker 2: you will stay, because I think staying in your lane.
Speaker 1: Is actually the key.
Speaker 2: And really knowing that I think and being so clear
Speaker 2: on your vision and what you believe in I think
Speaker 2: is one of the one of the most important keys
Speaker 2: to success. So I think that's great and I and
Speaker 2: I don't think it's for anyone to.
Speaker 1: Judge, so
Speaker 4: Everyone has to do it makes them feel good and
Speaker 4: that literally it obviously translates across any and everything, but
Speaker 4: that's just me.