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POLITICS
Tiffany faces
backlash after
Trump letter
Tiffany & Co faced a backlash from
some of its customers after publishing
a letter addressed to US president
Donald Trump on its Facebook page.
The letter - laid out in the Tiffany
brand colours - read: “Dear President
Trump, We’re still in for bold climate
action. Please keep the U.S. in the
Paris Climate Agreement. The disaster
of climate change is too real, and the
threat to our planet and to our children
is too great.”
The post sparked a mixture of
reactions from the jewellery brand’s
customers, with some praising it for
speaking up and others asking them
to “keep political opinions out of [their]
retail choices”.
One poster wrote: “Well this is
certainly not going to make me want to
buy me a Tiffany key or heart necklace...
Good luck with being political.” Another
said: “I don’t think I like my favourite
jeweller stepping into the political
arena.”
Nearly 800 comments have been
made on the post so far.
Tiffany & Co appointed its first chief
sustainability officer in 2015 and the
firm regularly advocates a number of
social and political issues including
climate change.
June 2017 | jewelleryfocus.co.uk
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SUPPLY CHAIN
GIA warns of
‘hybrid’ diamonds
The Gemological Institute of America
(GIA) has warned of “hybrid” diamonds
entering the supply chain after
uncovering a natural diamond with a
blue synthetic coating.
Claiming that the stone was the
first of its kind that the institute had
encountered, it reported that a number
of “unusual characteristics” gave away
the gem’s synthetic nature.
It had both nitrogen and boron
defects, which were described as
a “rare combination”, and was also
uncommonly a mixed Type Ia and IIb.
The ‘natural-synthetic’ gem was sent
to the GIA’s New York lab as a natural
fancy 0.33-carat bl