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Participants: Valérie Demure (Objet d’Emotion, UK), Paul Schneider (Twist, USA), Stéphanie Roger (Whitebird, Paris)
Presenter: Kyle Roderick (Bijoux Review, USA)

French-born and now based in London, Valery Demure is a global jewelry consultant and successful haute luxe jewelry retailer. While her dynamic Objet d'Emotion website is an inviting online salon where jewelry lovers and collectors discover limited edition and one-of-a-kind designs, her Instagram @objetdemotion also offers a highly refined showcase and jewelry shopping experience. Over the years, Demure has launched and/or consulted for such acclaimed international brands as Fernando Jorge, Alice Cicolini, Francesca Villa, Aaltas Jewellery, HUM jand Cultus Artem. Objet d'Emotion exhibits at the annual PAD London art fair, and Demure's jewelry branding agency GOLDRUSH opens its showroom to retailers and the press during Paris fashion week. Demure's evidence-based insights into the changing nature of jewelry retail and jewelry collector consciousness are varied, precise and valuable.

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WIST is the brainchild of Paul Schneider and Lauren Eulau, whose TWISTOnline website embodies an extensive and international array of design-driven and one-of-a-kind jewels and high luxury, one-of-a-kind designs. (There are over 150 designers featured on TWISTonline, which is based in Portland, Oregon.) Along with the TWISTOnline website, TWIST freestanding boutiques in Portland and Seattle have for several decades been major destinations for jewelry lovers.
In 2022, TWIST was inducted into the Retailer Hall of Fame by National Jeweler, which recognizes jewelers who've made significant contributions to their communities, as well as to the global jewelry industry.
The Jewelers of America's GEM Awards honored TWIST with its Retail Innovation Award in 2020 for creating positive change in its bold, creative and innovative strategies in both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce retail spaces, which include video portraits of jewelry designers and their creations.

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Stéphanie Roger founded the Paris-based WHITEbIRD JEWELLERY Boutique and website over a decade ago to showcase international designers in her Paris boutiques and on her eponymous website. Roger's curation encompasses jewels that are artistically original, rich in high quality gem materials plus technically superb artisanship.
WHITEbIRD presents a wide variety of treasures from around the world selected by Stephanie Roger, for whom artistic vision, creative authenticity and accomplished craftsmanship are essential elements. WHITEbIRD comprises stores in three charming Paris districts, plus a dynamic e-shop that presents a diverse range of designers.
Equally important, WHITEbIRD is also an eponymous collection of jewelry that's alive with contemporary elegance. WHITEbIRD designs are ideal for everyday wear as well as for celebrating life's milestone moments.
Having formerly worked for haute luxe Parisian jeweler Dinha Vanh as well as the RIchemont Group, Stephanie Roger; her range of designers plus her WHITEbIRD eponymous brand represent one of the world's most cosmopolitan independent jewelry offerings.