Clare Phillips (M.A. Royal College of Art, London) has been a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 1989. As a jewellery historian she is part of the small team dedicated to the V&A’s jewellery collection and is the author of the V&A’s classic book ‘Jewels & Jewellery’. In addition to her work with the permanent collection, she has been responsible for the more focussed jewellery content within many major V&A exhibitions from ‘Art Nouveau: 1890-1914’ in 2000 to ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up’ in 2018. Her books range from Thames & Hudson’s accessible introductory text ‘Jewelry - from Antiquity to the Present’ to ‘Chaumet Tiaras: Divine Jewels’ which she co-authored in 2019. In 2006 she curated the exhibition ‘Bejewelled by Tiffany’ at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House.