Giving someone jewelry this year? Consider getting it in the shape of D.C.

September 20 through 26 marks D.C. Fashion Week, and DCist will be celebrating by interviewing a different local designer every day this week. Check out the rest of our coverage here. Today, we talk to Thomas — who requested that we not use his last name — of Couture Saboteur.

Image of the Hope Diamond, courtesy the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Get those credit cards ready, home shoppers. Among the samurai swords, creepy dolls, and faint-inducing children’s DVDs, you may soon be able to purchase your very own Hope Diamond replica. The Smithsonian Institution announced yesterday that they’ve struck a deal with home shopping network QVC to market a jewelry line based on the museum’s National Gem and Mineral Collection, part of…