Fashion & Retail

Heritage jewelry, modernized.

Founded by Meg Strachan, Dorsey is the leading DTC fine-jewelry house using lab-grown stones and heritage-inspired craftsmanship to deliver fine jewelry made for modern wear. JBC built Meg into a category voice and Dorsey into the cult favorite of the DTC fine-jewelry conversation.

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Client
Dorsey
Sector
Fashion & Retail
Partnership
2022 — Ongoing
The scoreboard

A founder, a category, a cult.

Editorial reach measured against the bar that matters for a founder-led DTC brand — placement count, impression volume, and the moment WSJ drove a record sales day.

2.2B+

Media impressions in approximately one year of partnership.

2022 — 2023
186

Media placements secured for the brand and founder.

Year one
$100K+

Record sales day driven by a single Wall Street Journal style trend feature.

Investor attention followed
The challenge

Make a digitally native brand a household name.

How does a digitally native fine-jewelry brand earn the editorial credibility — and the founder profile — that legacy houses spend generations building?

Lab-grown fine jewelry was a category in the making. Dorsey had the product and the founder voice but needed a press program that established the brand in fashion editorial, the founder in business press, and the category in consumer media — simultaneously.

That meant treating the brand and the founder as parallel narratives — each lane reinforcing the other, with the goal of cult status in the DTC fine-jewelry conversation.

The approach

Founder voice, brand cachet.

An integrated press program that treated the brand and the founder as parallel narratives, each lane reinforcing the other.

01

Founder thought leadership

Meg Strachan as a category voice in DTC retail and fine jewelry — in business, fashion, and consumer media in tandem.

02

Tier-one fashion editorial

Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire — the fashion outlets that establish authority in the fine-jewelry conversation.

03

Trend-cycle press

Dorsey planted in the trend stories that consumers actually shop — leading to a record $100K+ sales day from a single Wall Street Journal style feature.

04

Investor narrative

Tier-one editorial that didn't just drive sell-through — it caught the attention of investors watching for the next category-defining DTC brand.

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Founder as story

Meg Strachan, in tastemaker press.

Dorsey's brand voice is Meg's voice. The press program built her into a category voice in business and DTC retail — and a tastemaker in fashion — with editorial that ran in the magazines actually shaping the modern fine-jewelry conversation.

Top-tier brand and founder features in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, the Wall Street Journal, and across business, retail, and consumer fashion outlets.

Sales moment · 2022

A $100K sales day.

Within the first few months of partnership, JBC placed Dorsey in a Wall Street Journal style trend story — a single feature that drove a record $100,000+ sales day, and caught the attention of multiple investors.

The kind of editorial moment that proves what tier-one press can do for a digitally native brand: not awareness for its own sake, but sell-through, signal, and momentum.

Dorsey product editorial
$100K+
Record sales day from one WSJ feature.
Coverage highlights

Fashion authority, earned.

A selection of the moments and outlets that defined the partnership — brand, founder, and category, in tandem.

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Plus sustained editorial across consumer fashion, business, and retail trades.

A great press office turns a single tier-one feature into a record day — and turns a record day into cult status.
— JBC's founder-led brand playbook
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