Crack open an unassuming stone, and you might just uncover a little conclave of crystals within. Their walls are glittering with quartz, amethyst, or calcite, protected by a hard shell that was shaped ...

Designer Gilles Mendel’s mood board showed a mix of images from nature — marble, jagged rose quartz and rough blue geodes — for the fall J.Mendel collection. “Raw things,” Mendel said during a ...