PARIS — Looking to bounce back from the travails of the past month, Christian Dior is using the Baselworld show to introduce a new luxury watch collection.

Previous Dior watch designs have been associated with specific designers, like Victoire de Castellane, Hedi Slimane and John Galliano, who was re...

Body Jewelry should be hypoallergenic. A number of materials are used, with varying strengths and weaknesses. Surgical stainless steel, niobium and titanium are commonly used metals, with titanium the least likely to cause allergic reaction of the three. Platinum and palladium are also safe alternat...

General Body Piercing Aftercare

'LITHA (Leave it the hell alone)' – This method is exactly what it sounds like. After you get the piercing you leave it alone. Some people hold very strongly to the LITHA method and don't do any type of cleaning during healing, though many people using this method will...

The aftercare process for body jewelry piercing has evolved gradually through practice,and many myths and harmful recommendations persist. A reputable piercing studio should provide clients with written and verbal aftercare instructions, as is in some areas mandated by law.

The healing process of pie...

Body jewelry for The 500 guests seemed nonplussed by the sponsorship. "I'm guessing it has a lot to do with our environment and how special our planet Earth is?" Tyson Beckford, the pillow-lipped male model, speculated, when asked about the rare earth connection. "I'll have to Google that when I get...

By the early part of the 20th century, body jewelry piercing of any body part had become uncommon in the West. After World War II, it began gathering steam among the gay male subculture. Even ear piercing for a time was culturally unacceptable for women, but that relatively common form of piercing b...

A captive bead ring (CBR), ball closure ring (BCR), captive hoop, or captive ball ring is a common example of body jewelry.

The captive bead or ball fits into a small opening in the circle of the ring. The bead is slightly larger than this opening and has small indentations or depressions that corres...

Body Jewelry has only recently become a subject of serious scholarly research by archaeologists, who have been hampered in studying body piercing by a sparsity of primary sources. Early records rarely discussed the use of piercings or their meaning, and while jewellery is common among grave goods, t...

Body piercing has been around for centuries. It is used by all cultures to call attention to the individual. In most cultures, it is women that are more likely to have piercings than men. The most common form of piercing is the ear pierce. This has been used by cultures throughout the world and thro...

THREE years ago, a fashion event for Monique Péan meant stowing her best jewelry samples into an antique white box and hauling it to the Times Square offices of Vogue in the off chance that editors there might like her earthy, eco-friendly bracelets and necklaces.

But this month, like hundreds of ups...