I am a Kiwi-born, London-based jewellery obsessive who edits, writes, styles, consults and generally bangs on about everything pertaining to the jewellery industry, including craftsmanship, mining, greenwashing, ethics and responsible practices. I’ve been editing Vanity Fair on Jewellery since 2014, and have written for British Vogue, The Telegraph, The New York Times, Grazia, Times Luxx, Robb Report, Denizen, the New Zealand Herald’s Viva magazine, and countless others (I’m not very good at counting.)

That’s me in black and white. That is NOT me above. That’s the fabulous Erin O’Connor, wearing Boucheron, shot by Damian Foxe and styled by Elad Bitton for Vanity Fair on Jewellery, 2022.

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GET. ON. MY. HAND. RIGHT. NOW. @retrouvai you will do as you’re told 😡
1st-3rd Century AD Roman intaglio of a honey bee from @yaleartgallery 🥰🥰🥰
Up my dosage please @rikkelunnemann 💊💊💊
Teeny tiny lithoteque captured in a charm - too sweet @hilaryfinckjewelry 🥹🥹🥹
@kunstkammergeorglaue you’re KILLING ME!!!! If you’re even remotely interested in 18th century “lithoteques” or stone libraries that come in glorious little Moroccan leather boxes with 50 different stones cut to fit a pair of
Sooooo good @panconesi now if only my sad little ears were up to the challenge 🙄
LOVE the hard stone versions of @tabayer bangles - chalcedony and jasper looking DELISH 🤤
Sharing this AGAIN because @aspreylondon have confirmed that these little golden nuggets were NAIL COVERS from the 1930s created for the extraordinary renaissance woman Clare Booth Luce who gifted them to the museum. Swipe to see the reverse that sho