My colleague Lauren Goldstein Crowe has been ahead of the
curve of late in covering the creative leadership at Garrard, the UK jeweler.
Apparently Stephen Webster is in,
although it’s less
clear whether Jade Jagger is out:
Ron Burkle, the owner of Garrard and, since Friday, a major investor in Stephen
Webster, is loathe to cut all ties with Jade because of her status as offspring
of Mick Jagger.
Little did Lauren know, when she was writing this, that the biggest Garrard-related
celebrity of them all – yea, bigger even than Mick Jagger – wasn’t
on the creative side at all. Instead, he turns out to be one
of the owners of the company:
Mr. Clinton has assets of $100,001 to $250,000 in one Yucaipa investment,
Garrard Worldwide Holdings Inc., a retail jeweler with a flagship store in
London.
Yes, that’s Bill Clinton. Although somehow I doubt we’ll ever
see him sporting any Webster-designed man-bling.