From Egyptian necklaces and Roman seal rings to the 3,500 garnets of the Staffordshire Hoard and the Victorian craze for Bohemian pyrope, a short history of garnet.
Nana Mouskouri has received Germany's Order of Merit from President Steinmeier in Berlin, while Mary Hopkin is set to collect the Welsh Music Inspiration Award in Cardiff.
Matthieu Blazy's second Chanel ready-to-wear collection closed Paris Fashion Week at the Grand Palais with sheer tweed, tiger prints, a new stretch suit and a flock of 95 birds overhead.
The striped Breton top began as French naval uniform in 1858, with rules down to the width of each stripe, before Chanel and later designers turned it into a fashion classic.
Messika closed its Grand Palais show with the Okavango Blue, the largest blue diamond ever found in Botswana, while Boucheron added nine new ivy pieces to Lierre de Paris.
Once as precious as ruby and emerald, amethyst went from Greek wine myths and bishops' rings to Catherine the Great's Ural mines, until Brazil changed its story.