Episodes
Carol speaks to inspirational jewellery designer and entrepreneur Jen Meyer about her soaring business, built from the ground up and now wowing stars from Jennifer Aniston to Kate Hudson. https://jennifermeyer.com/ This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative Social media support by...
Published 04/25/24
Carol travels to Paris for a fascinating conversation discuss one of the most inspirational figures in Cartier's history, Jeanne Toussaint, with Cartier's Director of Image, Style and Heritage, Pierre Rainero. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative Illustrations Jordi...
Published 04/11/24
Celebrated psychotherapist Julia Samuel talks to Carol about why jewellery can be important to managing anxiety and stress in today's world, while jeweller Charlotte Garnett tells her how this can be put into practice. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative Illustrations Jordi...
Published 03/28/24
For the second of our Oscar specials, Carol talks to her friend Frank Everett, Vice Chairman Sotheby’s Jewellery, about the enduring but ever-changing love affair between Hollywood and fine jewellery. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Additional visual content by Isabella Thompson @isa.tom Creative direction by Scott...
Published 03/15/24
In our first special episode for Academy Awards season, Carol speaks to author Maura Spiegel Ph.D., teacher of literature and film at Columbia University in New York City, about the changing role of jewels in Hollywood, both in the films themselves and on the red carpet. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by...
Published 03/07/24
Carol heads to Paris, where she has an in depth conversation with the groundbreaking and inspirational polymath, designer and entrepreneur Michèle Lamy, about her life, her taste, her outlook and her obsessions. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones https://fuligemstones.com Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative Illustrations Jordi...
Published 02/22/24
For an altogether different gem experience, Carol heads to California to visit the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, and speaks to Mineral Sciences Curator Dr Aaron Celestian and jeweller Robert Procop about their fabulous new exhibition, 100 Carats: Icons Of The Gem World, which runs until April 21st. You can find information about the exhibition here... https://nhm.org/experience-nhm/exhibitions-natural-history-museum/100-carats This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones...
Published 02/08/24
Carol is back for season six! To kick things off, she has a wide-ranging conversation about René Lalique and the art nouveau movement. This coincides with a new exhibition of Lalique's drawings at the A La Vielle Russie gallery in New York. Carol is joined by the gallery's managing director Adam Patrick, and one of the world's foremost Lalique experts, Mark Waller. You can find information about the exhibition here... https://www.alvr.com/9762/rene-lalique-drawings-exhibition/ This episode is...
Published 01/25/24
Bringing season 5 of her podcast to a close, Carol answers some of the many jewellery questions sent in by listeners, on subjects including the Orlov diamond, the legendary JAR, and what jewellery Carol would buy with three amounts: £100, £1000 and £5000. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative...
Published 12/07/23
Elizabeth Taylor - the eternal icon for Hollywood, beauty, celebrity, and jewellery. Carol speaks to two people who knew her well: Sally Morrison, Director of PR at De Beers, who was once Elizabeth Taylor's publicist, and Ward Landrigan, who in his time at Sotheby's, sold some of the key jewels to Taylor and her then husband Richard Burton. A conversation packed with anecdotes and information about perhaps the 20th century's greatest movie star. This episode is brought to you by...
Published 11/23/23
Following last episode's discussion of a fictionalised Suzanne Belperron, this week Carol gets the full picture of the real historical figure, the wildly talented jewellery designer turned French resistance hero, as recounted by the president of the present day Belperron brand, Nico Landrigan. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by...
Published 11/09/23
Carol has an in-depth conversation with eclectic American novelist M J Rose, who has carved a niche in her recent works by writing about the world of jewellery. Her most recent novel The Jeweller Of Stolen Dreams brings the great jewellery designer Suzanne Belperron to fictional life. https://mjrose.com/content/ This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative...
Published 10/26/23
Carol has a lively chat with one of the world's great polymaths: musician, model, actress, writer and designer Daphne Guinness, about her life and career. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative Illustrations Jordi Labanda @jordilabanda Read Carol Woolton in Vogue magazine...
Published 10/12/23
Carol gets the whole story of that glitziest of showbiz arenas, the Hollywood Red Carpet: the clothes, the celebs, the inside deals, and of course, the jewels. She's joined from Beverley Hills by venerable celebrity jeweller Martin Katz, and his favourite stylist, Linda Medvene. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott...
Published 09/28/23
Carol speaks to her friend, the author and former Harpers Bazaar editor Justine Picardie, about that towering figure of twentieth century fashion, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. Link to the V&A exhibition: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/gabrielle-chanel-fashion-manifesto Link to Justine's book:...
Published 09/14/23
Carol delves into the history of that most crucial and romantic of jewellery items - the ring - with international jewellery historian and author of The Power of Love: Jewels, Romance and Eternity, Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-power-of-love/dr-beatriz-chadour-sampson/9781911604464 This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones VOTE FOR US AT THE PODCAST AWARDS! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced...
Published 08/31/23
Carol has a lively conversation about the fascinating concept of Spirit Animals, with shamanic practitioner and healer Andréa Ararê, and ultra-hip but spiritual jeweller Diane Kordas. https://www.femininerevolution.com/ https://www.dianekordasjewellery.com/ This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones VOTE FOR US AT THE PODCAST AWARDS! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim...
Published 08/17/23
Carol is joined by star architect John Pawson and self-described jewellery architect Dina Kamal to discuss their work, minimalism and how jewellery and architecture are inseparably linked. VOTE FOR US AT THE PODCAST AWARDS! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Brought to you by @fuligemstones Follow Carol Woolton: @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim Thornton @timwthornton Creative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreative...
Published 08/03/23
In this special episode, Carol takes you to Puglia, Italy, where this year's Dolce&Gabbana Alta Moda, Alta Sartoria and (most importantly) Alta Gioelleria fashion shows took place. She sits down with real estate developer, high jewellery buyer and self-styled "fashion God" Ricky Moura, and fashion retailer and author Cameron Silver, to find out what makes the world of the high jewellery client go round. VOTE FOR US AT THE PODCAST AWARDS! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Follow...
Published 07/20/23
One only has to look at the pearl's resurgence, powered by the patronage of Harry Styles and Timothée Chalamet, to realise how surprising this gem is. So for her 1st episode of the 5th season, Carol talks to jeweller Chrissie Coleman Douglas about the origin and marketing of the pearl, while later she talks to Vogue contributing editor Jack Borkett about the pearl's place in the fashion world. VOTE FOR US AT THE PODCAST AWARDS! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Brought to you by...
Published 07/06/23
For our final Coronation special, just before the big day itself, Carol sits down with historian and TV presenter Geoffrey Munn, to discuss precisely what jewels will be part of the Coronation regalia and the history of the event itself. Carol and Geoffrey chat in the Queen Mary Room at one of the world's oldest and most prestigious jewellers, Garrard in Mayfair. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Please see: www.carolwoolton.com Follow Carol Woolton:  @carolwoolton Produced...
Published 05/04/23
In our second week of Coronation specials, Carol speaks to the queen of fashion herself, Suzy Menkes, who reveals her jewel predictions for the Coronation, who she thinks is the best-jewelled Royal, what it truly means for an item of jewellery to "belong" to the Royal Family - and much more. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Please see: www.carolwoolton.com Follow Carol Woolton:  @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music & editing by Tim...
Published 04/27/23
In the first of our special episodes in the run up to the Coronation of King Charles III, jewellery specialist John Hawkins speaks to Carol from his home in Tasmania. They discuss Queen Victoria's role in the makeup of the current Crown Jewels, including John's controversial theory about the origin of one of the sapphires. This episode is brought to you by @fuligemstones Please see: www.carolwoolton.com Follow Carol Woolton:  @carolwoolton Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash Music &...
Published 04/20/23
In this episode, Carol speaks to two key figures in Turquoise Mountain, the groundbreaking charity, artisan craft house and retailer: president Shoshana Stewart, and designer Pippa Small. The organisation was founded in 2006 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and former politician Rory Stewart, initially to enhance the traditional Afghan craft industry; it has now expanded to Jordan, Myanmar and Saudi Arabia. https://www.turquoisemountain.org This episode is brought to you by...
Published 04/13/23