* FYI- Rarities is LEAVING HSN**
Copy/paste from Carol’s Facebook page:
💕💎After 17 extraordinary years, I have decided to retire from home shopping and close one of the most meaningful chapters of my career.
Building Rarities Fine Jewelry on HSN was never just about jewelry for me. It was about glamour, storytelling, creativity, friendship, confidence, and the incredible bond I shared with women who welcomed me into their homes and lives for nearly two decades.
The original HSN was a very special place. It never felt corporate — it felt creative, collaborative, inspiring, beautiful, and full of soul. It was a place where ideas, storytelling, design, and passion truly mattered.
When the iconic HSN campus in St. Petersburg closed last year and operations were integrated into QVC, I realized an era I deeply loved had changed.
At the same time, something else became very clear to me: the most meaningful connections I now have with all of you happen every single day on social media. It’s where our connection has become even more personal and real.
I want more of that.
I want to share beauty, jewelry, design, travel, style, inspiration, and authentic everyday moments in a way that feels immediate, personal, and truly connected.
I want to be more Carol. More real. More present.
I created Rarities Fine Jewelry in 2009, and for 17 years every design reflected my personal creative vision and passion for jewelry.
As I begin this next chapter, I will no longer be involved in the design or creative direction of the Rarities Fine Jewelry collection. Going forward, all of my future jewelry designs, rare gemstones, and creative projects will instead live exclusively within the Carol Brodie Collection.
The Rarities pieces created during my years at HSN came directly from my heart and are timeless collectibles filled with meaning, memories, and love.
Thank you for 17 unforgettable years of loyalty, friendship, and support.
This is not goodbye. It’s a new beginning.
Stay tuned and continue to follow me on Instagram and Facebook as this next chapter begins.
Sending you sparkle and brilliance always, 💕💎Carol
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Thank you for posting this. I had no idea and I am a big fan of her designs and the stories she shared as inspiration for the designs.
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I just stopped reading a lot of Rarities reviews and she has so many negative reviews a lot are just a one-star rating and usually when it’s a rating it means HSN did not print the review because it is too negative. Her high prices do not reflect all the bad ratings. She probably was not going to lower her prices.
HSN probably wasn’t selling her merchandise as much and was getting a lot of returns and she probably did not want to come down on her prices.
The writing was on the wall she wasn’t going any further with HSN not in the way she wanted to anyway, so she left.
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I wish her well and will definitely check out her line on her website. It is so sad that it has come to this so many people leaving HSN. I would not be bad if they were Great New Vendors selling on HSN but that is not the case. HSN seems to be going in the wrong direction.
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the president of qurate who sunk HSN into bankruptcy must be fired and replaced if HSN stands any chance of emerges out of chapter 11. but HSN lawyers must fight in court asking the judge to order qurate to sell to a retailer who knows how to bring HSN back, can rebuild hsn. we all should have a voice in this chapter 11 case, where we should write to judge Alfredo R. Prez case no. 2690447 request quote removed as they can not remain and next they will sink HSN into to their grave.
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I read that HSN is not really filing bankruptcy it is only QVC and they will still be up and running. I know they are owned both by the Qurate group it is really QVC who has had financial issues, but they did throw in HSN but QVC is the one who is really in debt.
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You know I will miss her. I loved watching her describe her pieces, the history she gave about the designs and where the motivaiton came from, the information on the stones, and everything. She is so so talented and appears to be a good soul. Rarities was a special collection that she offered with fair pricing considering what jewelry costs today. It might not have been the upper quality of gold, stones, etc but it ws certainlly better than any expensive costume jewelry line as Rarities was real, fine organic material. In fact when her pieces went on sale, they were a steal, in my opinion. They were not fake costume jewelry and they had value.
I do not think HSN will ever replace her talent and remarkable artistic design pieces. Think about who is left at HSN in terms of jewelry———nothing special. Unless you like the Flinstone creations of Jay King. Lets not go there but he is a total farce. Wishing Carol to resurrect soon where we can all find her again.-
I agree I’m so sad to see carol brody leave HSN but wherever she lands, she will come out bigger and better she will really grow. I wish her all the best.
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Another one bites the dust!
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She will be a rockstar wherever she lands.
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Thank you for the information. Nice of Carol to make an announcement instead of leaving us wondering.
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