While Mick rocks on, Jade Jagger packs in her day job
SIr Mick Jagger turns 80 in July, but he’s still prancing round the stage with the rolling Stones. Yet, I hear that the singer’s eldest child, Jade Jagger, is already giving up her career — at the tender age of 51.
Jade has been a designer of fine jewellery for three decades. however, yesterday she declared: ‘Today is the first day I decided to stop working at jewellery. I think it will bring new light, new love and new opportunities.
‘Thank you to all that supported me. Change is good.’
The news may come as a relief to Kate Moss, who received a necklace from Jade in 2002. When the supermodel inspected it closely, she was shocked to discover one word spelled out in decorative stones: ‘SLAG’.
Jade — whose mother is Sir Mick’s first (and only) wife Bianca — had been going out for two years with Dan Macmillan, the louche model son of the earl of Stockton, when she reportedly discovered that he had also been enjoying a relationship with Moss, 49.
Macmillan was said to have cancelled a romantic weekend away with Jade at the Cipriani hotel in Venice, owing to a ‘ work commitment’. however, a friend then reported back to Jade that Macmillan and Moss were spied heading up to a room together at that very same Italian hotel.
Jade turned her passion for ‘bohemian aesthetic, one-of-a-kind jewellery pieces’ into a business, setting up Jade Incorporated in the 1990s.
She began working as the creative director of Garrard, the former Crown jeweller, in 2001. She created the ‘Jagger Dagger’, a sword with an 18-carat white gold hilt studded with 12 carats of brilliant- cut diamonds, 42 pale sapphires, and inlaid with a central blue lapis lazuli square.
her creations have been worn by famous names including model Cara Delevingne and pop star rita Ora. In 2018, she released a collection called Madonna, dedicated entirely to the queen of pop.