The late Madeleine Albright’s brooches were so entwined with her identity that in 2009 she wrote a book: Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box. Albright, a trailblazing diplomat who was ...

In her new book, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks about how jewelry became her signature diplomatic tool. From turtles to doves to ...

What's in a pin? For many of us, brandishing our moods in brooches would be no more revealing than a mundane status update or tweet. But, for the woman Saddam Hussein called "a serpent," pin changes ...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in Denver over the weekend, promoting her pin collection, "Read My Pins," that's currently installed at the Denver Art Museum, and revisiting the town ...

A beautiful brooch is a great conversation piece. Perhaps that is why Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State of the United States, collected hundreds of them throughout her life.

There were balloons, butterflies and flowers to signify optimism and, when diplomatic talks were going slowly, crabs and turtles to indicate... How Madeleine Albright used jewelry as a diplomatic tool ...

Caroline Channing called diamonds a "girl's best friend" and Diane Von Furstenburg described jewelry as "the perfect spice." Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, however? She named her brooches a ...

The first female secretary of state of the United States. Known for wearing brooches or decorative pins to convey her foreign policy messages. Her family escaped Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Nazi ...

A 1997 photo of Madeleine Albright, who died at age 84 on March 23, 2022 Photo by © Wally McNamee / Corbis via Getty Images Editor's Note, March 23, 2022: Madeleine ...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in Denver over the weekend, promoting her pin collection, “Read My Pins,” that’s currently installed at the Denver Art Museum, and revisiting the town ...