Below is a press release:
January 24, 2016 (New York) -
Cindy
Edelstein, entrepreneur, author, editor and long time consultant to the
jewelry industry, died suddenly Sunday January 24. She was 51. The cause
was heart failure.
Cindy began her career in the jewelry
industry as an editor at JCK magazine where she was the fashion editor.
This brought her in contact with jewelry designers and their work, and
she soon came to realize that working with them would be her life's
work. In 1991, wanting to support the growth of this segment of the
industry, she founded the Jeweler's Resource Bureau with her husband,
Frank Stankus, with the idea of highlighting the designers and their
work in multiple ways.
Over the years she worked in many roles to
that end, including that of trade show consultant for the JCK show, the
Couture show and the AGTA show as well creating her own
designer-centric show, globalDESIGN. She also was a prolific writer
about jewelry design and her byline could be found in every jewelry
trade publication as well as in industry online columns. With her
husband, she co-wrote a book titled "Brilliance: Masterpieces from the
American Jewelry Design Council." It sold out of it's first printing.
Her efforts to help designers of every
level of achievement brought her some well-deserved recognition. She was
awarded the prestigious Benne Award by the American Jewelry Design
Council in 1995, and was the 1996 winner of the Contemporary Design
Group's award as Best Designer Advocate. She was a long-serving member
of the board of the Women's Jewelry Association, an international group
to which she devoted many years of volunteer work. In 1990, she received
that organization's Award for Editorial Excellence, and in 2001 she was
recognized again by the same group for her Excellence in Marketing.
She is survived by her husband Frank, a
daughter, Remy Sasha Stankus, a stepson, Byron David Stankus, and a brother,
Philip Edelstein.
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