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01-29-2022 12:20 PM
Would someone in the know please settle this, for once and for all. Scott keeps alluding to the couture line. Does he still work for John Hardy? Does John Hardy own JAI?
01-29-2022 12:29 PM
I don't know anything about JAI and John Hardy but I know that John Hardy sold the business years ago. I don't know if he's still involved at all. It may be like Bobbi Brown where they keep using the name even though she has nothing to do with it.
01-29-2022 12:44 PM
I've heard Scott talking about the benefit of the high-end couture experience he had with John Hardy. It's always seemed he was talking in past tense. Like that experience influences some of his own work and creativity. Maybe someone will know for sure.
01-29-2022 12:59 PM
From Scott Grimes LinkedIn page:
Jan 2010 - Present12 years 1 month
As the Creative Director & Spokesperson of JAI John Hardy, I work with a team of illustrators to bring my inspirations to life in jewelry collections designed exclusively for QVC.
01-29-2022 01:47 PM
Origionally, I got the feeling that JAI was a "dumbed down" version if the couture John Hardy line, created for the mass market on QVC. Scott is the spokesman/salesman.
01-29-2022 02:17 PM
@depglass , I don't know if I would consider myself "in the know" I read a year ago Mr. Hardy had sold his business and is now "perhaps" a consultant. Scott is a super nice gentleman. However, IMOP Jai cannot compete with the John Hardy pieces. Scott's pieces are lovely but do not compare in quality and design to Mr. Hardy
01-29-2022 06:44 PM
@Kachina624 wrote:Origionally, I got the feeling that JAI was a "dumbed down" version if the couture John Hardy line, created for the mass market on QVC. Scott is the spokesman/salesman.
That's what I think....
01-29-2022 08:13 PM
01-29-2022 10:55 PM
I believe JH is the parent company of JAI. JAI is the sterling silver line of JH where JH is an internationally known high-end diamond jewerly company. Scott Grimes is the creative director of JAI. And JAI is sold only to QVC.
01-30-2022 07:26 AM
The JAI line is so similar to JH that I think Scott G. would have been sued a long time ago if not associated w/ the higher end company. The braided leather bracelets with silver accents (JAI), for example, as well as the box chain designs are duplicates of JH's in the cases of jewelry stores.
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