Customers Demand More Guidance From Jewelers
Coupled right here with a basic gold set on the underside tooth, the fang grills had been made by Metro Jewelers at the Albee Square Mall in Downtown Brooklyn, a notable spot for hip-hop jewelry in the 1980s and Nineteen Nineties. In the late Eighties, a young Biz Markie, pictured right here in 1988, walked into the Diamond District store of Jacob “the Jeweler” Arabo and requested a signature piece of jewelry that might become the traditional “Biz” ring. Biz was Jacob’s first consumer from the hip-hop world, launching a legendary run of design collaboration between Jacob and a long…