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Kiki McDonough

British jewelry designer

Jul 28, 2026

4:33
Kiki?
4:34
Well, I'd love to see more skills taught in schools.
4:38
I think it gives children a huge, different ranges of opportunity.
4:42
I think university isn't for everyone.
4:44
I think there are a lot of people who've gone to university and been saddled with huge debts with degrees that no employer cares about.
4:51
And I think it's essential.
4:53
So many skills have died in this country.

31 MINS LATER

35:54
Kishi.
3:13
'Cause that hadn't really been done very much before.
3:19
So no, so, um, my father owned an antique jewelry in Bond Street.
3:23
And he was the world's expert in Georgian jewelry and English silver.
3:27
And people used to come from all over the world to see him and show him pieces and asked him the provenance, 'cause there was no fax machines or anything [laughs] like that.
3:34
But there were a couple of things in his shop I remember, Victorian pieces where they'd used sort of big amethysts and citrines, but they were in big, chunky gold settings and were not, to my mind, very attractive.
3:47
But when I was younger, I used to go into the shop and say hello to Daddy, you know.
3:51
And I was always looking at those citrines and amethysts, not at the diamonds and the everything else.

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14:59
Did you ever dance yourself?

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