Duquette and Wilkinson founded a fine jewelry line still sold at Bergdorf and Saks.
She slowly added sales reps around the country as her name and jewelry line has become better known.
Belgian sightholder Pluczenik Group teamed up with fashion house Escada to create the 12-sided "Escada cut" for its signature jewelry line.
And even when her House of Taylor jewelry line with Kathy Ireland went belly up, Taylor still walked away richer for the guaranteed licensing fees.
But as a philosophical statement and approach to business, I was pleasantly enlightened by my conversation with Pamela Bellesen who sells a successful wholesale jewelry line from her metalworking studio called Wide Mouth Frog Designs.
In addition to her show business career, she is active in managing other businesses as well, including her jewelry line which has been on QVC for about 21 years and has been profitable since its inception.
She's part of UNIQLO's new fall marketing campaign and has collaborated with several designers on limited runs of clothing and accessories, from Gryphon trench coats and Del Toro smoking slippers to a jewelry line with Dannijo bearing her initials.
Rather than sell one design or original piece at a time, she started to branch out to craft a wholesale line of jewelry.
Otero created a line of jewelry based on rose petals that fall in a seemingly haphazard fashion to reflect the randomness of nature.
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Ali Broshar, 14, founder of Ali's Creations, a line of jewelry and accessories made from bottle caps, also takes honors classes and plays competitive tennis.
Already a queen of branding, Polizzi has more deals for her own fashion and beauty lines than the rest of the cast: indoor and sunless tanning, slippers, sunglasses, perfume, jewelry and a maternity line on the way.
Primesmith, the next-gen jewelry company collaborating with Rovio on the accessory line, is based in Fiskars, Finland.
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Luxury Swiss watch brand Girard-Perregaux unveiled its latest piece from the 1966 watch line, a sparkling 38 mm ladies jewelry watch with a powerful mechanical movement manufactured in-house and paved with 807 diamonds.
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Now she is using her style sense to start her own luxury lifestyle brand, AERIN, which will offer accessories, jewelry, eyewear, home products, and a beauty line to be sold into department and specialty stores as early as early 2012.
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