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2013 - Issue 1 - Winter

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STYLE SETTER rocks star DAVID YURMAN IS ROMANCING THE STONES IN HIS SPRING COLLECTION—WITH A FEW OF THOSE PIECES EXCLUSIVE TO HIS FORUM SHOPS BOUTIQUE. BY LAURIE BROOKINS 60 PHOTOGRAPHY BY EVAN SUNG D avid Yurman likens himself to a chef when it comes to the ingredients that go into his much-coveted jewelry, those bold and brilliant pieces often crafted in sinewy twists of cable and splashed with stones in dazzling hues. "It's like going to the market early in the morning," he says of his unending quest for gems that spark inspiration. "You see what's in season, what looks fresh, how much you can get, and then of course how much it will cost. I shop materials by my eye; it takes a lot of knowledge to look in barrels at chunks of rock and see what potential is there." More than three decades have passed since Yurman, who as a teenager apprenticed as a sculptor, transferred his artistic leanings into the language of jewelry. And yet the undisputed king of cable admits that little has changed in his process, in the desire to hold a rough stone in his hand—to romance it, as the jewelry vernacular goes—and imagine its sparkling future. "I feel like I'm still in my 20s and every day is a new adventure," Yurman says, noting that VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 060-061_V_SS_StyleSetter_Win13.indd 60 1/2/13 1:48 PM

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