Emojis: Dressed Up and Ready to Party

Recently, emojis have even been turning up in precious metals and gemstones - sometimes deliberately, sometimes almost by chance: from the cartoony gift box-shaped pendant of Bulgari's Festa collection to the hamburger ring that is a signature piece from the London-based jewelry designer Nadine Ghosn The jewelry industry knows that millennials are rapidly becoming key consumers of high and fine jewelry For the jewelry designer Alison Chemla, the connection to emojis began about eight years ago - back in the time of Blackberry and BBM, or BlackBerry Message - when she realized that she and her boyfriend were constantly using the "Bashful face" emoji in texts.

The burger ring, which is being sold in the ground floor jewelry department of Le Bon Marché, that temple of luxury in Paris, was Ms Ghosn's first creation, introduced in 2015.And it led to an even more unusual collaboration, the Bling Mac, a $12,500 ring that McDonald's commissioned as the first prize for a Twitter competition in February Some established jewelry houses have serendipitously used designs that anyone might easily perceive as emojis.

Virtual edibles, like cupcake-adorned rings in pink opals sprinkled with spinels also have been created by the fine jewelry designer Cora Sheibani, in London The Geneva-based jewelry artist Suzanne Syz, who has designed exclamation point- and question mark-shaped earrings, said her clients are similarly inclined. . Source