Peninsula Hotels and Net-a-porter Partner for City Guides

TRAVEL DUO: The Peninsula Hotels has partnered with Net-a-porter.com to create a series of mini guides to the world’s gateway cities, beginning this month with The Peninsula Paris. The guides will live permanently on the respective hotels’ section of The Peninsula Web site, peninsula.com, and will be featured in the travel section of Net-a-porter’s weekly online magazine The Edit during the week of the launch. Each guide offers shopping, style and dining suggestions for that particular city. Published online in English, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Japanese on the Peninsula site, and in English, French, German and Simplified Chinese on Net-a-porter, the 10 mini guides will focus on a one-mile radius around each hotel. Following this month’s launch of the guide in Paris, will come Hong Kong (April 2), Shanghai (April 16), Manila (April 30) and Beverly Hills (May 14). The Peninsula New York guide will be published Sept. 3, to mark New York Fashion Week, and the Chicago guide will be published Sept. 17, followed by Bangkok (Oct. 1), Tokyo, (Oct. 15) and Beijing (Oct. 29).

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Marion Cotillard Designs ‘Green’ Jewels for Chopard

PARIS — Chopard has taken the next step on its road to sustainability by enlisting Marion Cotillard to design its first jewels using ethically sourced colored gemstones. The Geneva-based watch and jewelry firm presented the initiative at a lunch in Paris where Cotillard joined Chopard copresident Caroline Scheufele and Livia Firth, creative director of brand consultancy Eco-Age, who has partnered with Chopard since 2013 in the framework of her Green Carpet Challenge. Cotillard was the first actress to wear items from the Green Carpet Collection on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago. The Oscar winner, who is due to unveil the bracelet and necklace she created at the next edition of the film festival in May, said it was the first time she had turned her hand to jewelry design, a process she enjoyed all the more because she got to use opal stones sourced from a family-owned mine in Australia. “You design while thinking of the people who work on extracting the stones, so it’s a totally different energy,” she told WWD. “Why should the creation of dreams and luxury turn into a nightmare for the people who are providing the raw material?” asked Cotillard, a longtime campaigner for

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Katherine Bahamonde Monasebian Moves to Tourneau

SWITCHING GEARS: C.Wonder’s former executives have begun repopulating the industry in varied capacities, in the wake of the retailer’s bankruptcy earlier this year. Last month, former C.Wonder chief executive officer Harlan Kent was named president of jewelry brand Alex and Ani LLC. Now, C.Wonder’s former executive vice president of e-commerce has found a new post as chief marketing officer and new business development at Tourneau. Katherine Bahamonde Monasebian began at the watch firm in February, tasked with evolving the brand’s digital and marketing strategies, e-commerce channels, and new growth opportunities. Prior to her post at C. Wonder, Monasebian held posts at Juicy Couture, Lululemon, PepsiCo, and Nike. She holds a masters degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

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