The Materialist : Randi Molofsky

About this episode

Randi Molofsky discusses her unique role in the jewelry industry, connecting various stakeholders and sharing her journey from fashion media to jewelry.

Marc Bridge and Randi Molofsky, The Peninsula Beverly Hills There are people in the jewelry world who write about it, people who sell it, people who design it—and then there’s Randi Molofsky , whose superpower is weaving all of these worlds together. Randi doesn’t simply work in jewelry. She connects miners to designers, designers to retailers, and collectors to pieces that will live on their bodies and in their lives. She is a translator, mediator, curator, and—by her own admission—a sentimentalist with impeccable taste and a love of objects that carry stories. In this episode, recorded in sun-drenched Beverly Hills, we go deep into the heart of contemporary jewelry: where it comes from, how it gets made, who gets to participate, why it costs what it costs, and how personal style—and personal history—shape the objects we choose to carry with us. But we start at the beginning, with a young woman from a small Maryland town who loved fashion magazines and dreamt of a job at Vogue , only to discover a very different world in the pages of National Jeweler . A Connector Before She Had the Language for It Randi never set out to work in jewelry. She studied journalism, imagined a career…

People in this episode

Host: Marc Bridge

Guest: Randi Molofsky

Topics covered

• jewelry
• design
• fashion
• storytelling
• personal style

Keywords

• jewelry
• design
• fashion
• National Jeweler
• Beverly Hills
• Randi Molofsky
• storytelling
• personal style

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Jeweler

Places: Beverly Hills, Maryland, The Peninsula Beverly Hills

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