A burst of distinctive robins-egg Tiffany blue has altered the landscape on the golden retail mile of Bloor Street. The iconic American jewelry brand, which has had a presence on the strip since installing its first Canadian outpost on the south side in 1989, opens the doors on its shiny new flagship today at 150 Bloor St. W. 

The 5,800 square foot, two-storey luxury store represents a significant investment for Tiffany, says Wendy Eagan, the new group vice-president of Tiffany Canada, while declining to give exact construction figures for the publicly traded company. Toronto is an extremely important market to us, and we are very proud of this new store. This shop is our crown jewel in Canada. 

By the end of this year, there will be three stores in Toronto, two in Vancouver, and one each in Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal plus boutiques in select Holt Renfrew locations. The brand has been on the march to de-throne our national blue brand, Birks, as the place where Canadians come to celebrate what Eagan calls lifes most important moments, the birth of a child, the magic of an engagement. 

Anthony Robbins, Tiffanys store design director, says the move from across the street took two-and-a-half years to plan. Design-wise, Toronto will mark a new look for the brand, an evolution of the style, not a rupture, he says, of a style defined by the New York Fifth Ave. flagship where Audrey Hepburn took her croissant behind dark glasses. 

Robbins went back to the archives an echo of the larger trend in fashion to troll through heritage brands. Tiffany turned 175 years old last year, and the ideas of founder Charles Lewis Tiffany and his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, are back in play today. 

We kept to classic planning principles, says Robbins, to give the space its order and dignity. From the street, you can see clear through to both floors. The glass is framed through an illuminated wheatleaf arch surrounded by white marble and Tiffany blue. Toronto in my view is not always as appreciated as it should be, the designer says. We have tried to include a sense of grandeur in the design. He points to the sweeping staircase to the second floor and the site-specific sculpture just inside the door of falling leaves made of Tiffany blue and irridescent metals by Japanese artist Nami Sawada. 

Nature has been a constant design theme for Tiffany jewelry; besides the reprisal of the classical wheatleaf (along columns in the 25-foot entryway and along the balustrade on the floor above), there are magnolia branch references in various forms: chandeliers hand-forged and hand-leafed by New York-based artist Michelle Oka Doner and hand-painted up the stairway from the main salons (where Eagan says they have placed the brands famous statement jewelry, especially the coloured stones whose lore rests on the 1878 canary-yellow 128 karat Tiffany diamond.Wholesale stainless steel pendants and steel jewelry line with bold new designs. 

We have moved the engagement ring salon upstairs, says Eagan, so we can provide hospitality and private space. Also upstairs are the brands fashion jewelry collections, including the re-launched Atlas jewellery, based again on a heritage concept, the clock that has hung above the New York flagship since 1853. 

Today, Rozio said he felt better after hearing that another man has been held responsible for involvement in the robbery. 

You think what could I have done differently but theres nothing I could have done,tungsten jewelry is making a revolution in the jewelry industry by introducing unique types of designs, nothing, Rozio said when reached by phone at his Miami home where he lives with his wife of 47 years. It brings a little bit of peace of mind that theyre going to be put away. 

While Edwin Carlos Bonell Bernal of Colombia isnt the one who killed one of his accomplices Wilmar Andres Sierra-Perez, Bernal still faces a charge of felony murder during the commission of a robbery, a charge that allows authorities to hold him responsible for the murder, authorities say.Costume and fashion online wholesale jewelry Jewelry designs, 

Judge Caroline Shepherd today ordered Bernal, 37, be held in the Palm Beach County Jail without bond. Bernal is the second man to be arrested in the robbery. Oscar Gonzalez-Londono, 34,who is Sierra-Perezs cousin and also from Colombia, was sentenced in 2010 to eight years in prison, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. 

Police say Bernal, Sierra-Perez and Gonzalez-Londono came to Saint Andrews Boulevard in Boca Raton and robbed Miami-area couriers Rozio and Tomoteo Humberto Garcia. The two men were conducting business at St. Moritz Jewelers near the Town Center mall. 

Garcia went inside while Rozio waited in the car with the jewelry. The cars windows were smashed and the bag of jewelry from the front passenger floorboard was taken. 

A grey Saturn Vue pulled up behind Rozios car and the robbers jumped in. Rozio then took out his 9mm Ruger and tried shooting out a tire. The SUV began moving toward Rozios car before Rozio fired several shots at the driver, hitting Sierra-Perez in the back, killing him. 

The others in the Vue got out of the SUV and into a white 2008 Chrysler Town & Country, later found to be driven by Bernal, who also faces charges of robbery with a weapon and occupied burglary. 

The SUV was found at the Town Center mall with fingerprints belonging to a man named Edwin Zaragoza, also known as Juan Bonell and Juan Fernando Bonell Fernandez. Authorities found that the man had 30 aliases and had been arrested and deported several times. An arrest warrant was obtained in 2008 and in April 2010 authorities determined the mans true name was Bernal. 

Cate Blanchett may earn an Academy award for her portrayal of a woman on the edge of insanity in Woody Allens film, Blue Jasmine. Fashionistas who want to emulate her pulled-together movie wardrobe will need to have wads of cash in their Herms Birkins. 

Most of Jasmines elegant clothing was one-of-a-kind items on loan from leading designers, among them Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and Fendi. She wore custom-made Roger Vivier shoes and carried handbags by Herms, Fendi and Louis Vuitton. And to film a birthday party scene in which Blanchett wore at least a million dollars worth of diamonds, the jeweler required that she have an armed bodyguard on the set. 

When we first meet Jasmine she has lost most of her worldly possessions to the government and legal fees and shows up at the humble San Francisco apartment of her sister Ginger. She is toting four Louis Vuitton suitcases that she couldnt sell because they were monogrammed. 

To outfit Jasmine, Benzinger tried to imagine what would have been in those bags. True to Jasmines character it would not be family photographs or sentimental items, but recognizable name brands that are her security blanket and could help her snare the next wealthy guy, Benzinger says. Her wardrobe mainstay is a wool boucle Chanel jacket that she always pairs with jeans; Benzinger imagines that in her haste to pack, Jasmine left behind the matching skirt. Shes left with just one handbag, but it happens to be a Herms 35cm gold Birkin with gold hardware. 

Luxury brands were written into the script, but Allen put a few there just as placeholders, giving Benzinger free rein to make Blanchett look like a million with the designers of her choice. Retail prices for the brands she chose run about $1,000 for a classic shift to $10,000 for an evening gown. Yet Benzinger had a limited costume budget C she wouldnt say how much but The New York Times reported $35,000 C to outfit all the other characters in the film, including the extras. That was a powerful incentive to be creative. 

Anything she couldnt borrow, she bought at deep discount. Consider the Marc Jacobs trench coat that Jasmine wears in two scenes. Benzinger bought it on sale at Century 21, the New York discount department store near her Tribeca apartment, for $39.97 (it was missing a belt loop). To accompany all that jewelry in the party scene, Blanchett wears a shoulderless Valentino cocktail dress, bought off the rack at Loehmanns for $350. And most of the outfits for Hawkins, who plays Jasmines dclass sister, came from the Salvation Army. They contrast sharply with all the eye-popping, sometimes recognizable, name brands that adorn Blanchett.

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