Swarovski Boutique Entertains International Dignitaries

The exclusive Swarovski Boutique entertained dignitaries for an elegant cocktail party on Sunday evening. The dignitaries, all Swarovski agents from the region were welcomed by owner, jeweler Kelly Alwani and by Swarovski Vice President Travel-Retail, Peter Zottl, and the Regional Manager Caribbean & Mexico, Travel Retail Americans, Nelson Rivera.

Rivera put together a special day-long conference designed to update all Swarovski travel retail specialists on the latest developments. Zottl joined the program happy to network and connect with his vendors, spearheading the Swarovski expansion in the Caribbean and South America.

The cocktail party at the Swarovski Boutique was attended by Jerusha Rasmijn of the Aruba Tourism Authority who helped Rivera put the exciting program together and was expertly catered by a Taste of Belgium.

“Kelly Alwani, opened the first dedicated Swarovski Boutique in the Caribbean,” explains Zottl, “and we simply wanted to showcase his store to all our travel-retailers, and congratulate him and his lovely wife, on their insight and vision.”

After having opened the exclusive Mont Blanc boutique in downtown Oranjestad, Alwani of Shivas Jewels & Gems inaugurated the Swarovski Boutique, offering a glittering selection of Swarovski jewelry and home décor items, represented by the elusive, alluring white swan.

The luxurious crystal company was founded over a hundred years ago by Daniel Swarovski, who invented an electric crystal-cutting machine that revolutionized the jewelry and fashion industries in 1892. He then opened a factory for the industrial production of cut crystal jewelry stones in 1895, in Wattens, Austria.

Faithful to the spirit of its founder, today Swarovski is run in Switzerland by fourth and fifth generation descendants of Daniel Swarovski, employing more than 16,000 individuals around the world. Swarovski continues to lure people from the most diverse cultural backgrounds and lifestyles with high quality new crystal products in wide-ranging styles and designs.

Contemporary trends, comments Rivera, are fashionably translated into product lines such as jewelry, watches, accessories, home décor products, gift items and collectible figurines.

Pictured here are party snapshots.