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Designed with an onyx ornament at the closure, the black clutch featured a crystal-inset frame.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
The day heads on each level have been upgraded with large onyx basins and statement mirrors.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
What are the best uses for onyx?
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
There are rooms dedicated to jewelry and timepieces made with white diamonds, and others that show the era’s gradual embrace of precious and semi-precious stones increasing in size (including a statement necklace of diamonds and 165 carats of emeralds, a clip of jasper and onyx).
—Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2025
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
The day heads on each level have been upgraded with large onyx basins and statement mirrors.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
What are the best uses for onyx?
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
There are rooms dedicated to jewelry and timepieces made with white diamonds, and others that show the era’s gradual embrace of precious and semi-precious stones increasing in size (including a statement necklace of diamonds and 165 carats of emeralds, a clip of jasper and onyx).
—Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Onyx.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onyx. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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onyx
noun
on·yx
ˈän-iks 
: chalcedony in parallel layers of different color
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