Accessories
Accessories
Midnight Walk
Dark romantic lace, unexpected sheers and a bit of glimmer for a moody evening out. It is for anyone who dresses for the walk after dinner.
Convertible Bags
One bag, several ways to carry it, from shoulder to crossbody to backpack.
Fall Garden Party Closet
A fall garden party closet starts with a knit sweater and a wide-leg ankle jean. I picked rollneck and fair isle sweaters for the season.
Fortune Croissant Bag: The Lemaire Bag Shaped Like Its Name
The Lemaire Fortune Croissant bag is a curved, hardware-light shoulder bag in leather or wool felt, with just a strap and a zip. I go through how the two materials behave, the mini and medium sizes, and the version I would own.
David Morris Jewellery: London High Jewellery Since 1962
David Morris jewellery has been made in London since 1962, when the founder opened his first workshop in Hatton Garden. I go through the house's rings, earrings, necklaces and cuffs, from Frozen Kiss to Triolette.
Ossa
Ossa New York was founded in 2022 by Katie Simcox, a designer who worked at Marchesa and Alexander Wang, and Sarah Crane, who came from wholesale at A.P.C., rag and bone and Theory. Their idea was a fashion take on Europe's phone chain trend: beaded cords, metal chains, freshwater pearls and gemstones that clip onto a custom clear case through a patented ball chain connection, so you can swap straps whenever you like. This edit gathers the wristlets, crossbody chains and cases that turn a phone into an accessory.
Ōtzĭo
Ōtzĭo is a London label founded by Claudio Aritzu, a textile designer and photographer who studied graphic design in Milan and fashion design at London College of Fashion. It is known for vivid colors and lush prints on kaftans, shirts and silk scarves, and takes its name from the Roman idea of otium, or reflective leisure. This edit brings together his long fringed scarves and printed silk squares.
Gazza Ladra Jewelry: Gold Necklaces and Earrings Built in New York
Gazza Ladra jewelry was built in New York by Sunny Setton De Poortere, a former documentary film producer and tour manager. I picked the gold necklaces and earrings, from lizard earrings to a single shell earring.
Jacquie Aiche Jewelry: 14K Gold Necklaces and Rings From LA
Jacquie Aiche grew up in Los Angeles making bead necklaces before she ever meant to start a company, and she launched her namesake jewelry line there in 2007 after years of selling pieces anonymously off her own body while running a clothing boutique on Sunset Plaza. The brand's break came from the finger bracelet she designed around 2009, an idea odd enough that it turned into a genuine signature worn by Beyoncé, Rihanna and the Hadid sisters, among others.
Rachel Quinn Jewelry: From Painting and Sculpture to Gold
Rachel Quinn jewelry here is made in 14K yellow gold, with amazonite, sapphire and coral in pendants and earrings.
Real Fine Studio: Jewelry by Stylist Eliza O'Connor
Eliza O'Connor, a Brisbane-born stylist, started what became Real Fine Studio in Los Angeles in 2021, making custom jewelry for styling clients who were tired of standard industry markups. It grew from Instagram-DM commissions into an heirloom-styled fine jewelry label, with early pieces picked up by working stylists and worn by a run of recognizable names within its first year.
Le Sundial Jewelry: Agate, Pearl and Jade From a Milan Label
Le Sundial jewelry was started in Milan by Silvia Dusci after a career in communications. I picked the agate, pearl and jade necklaces and earrings.
Charms Company
Begum Yalcin, an Istanbul native who trained in fashion design at Milan's Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, launched Charms Company in 2013 while she was still finishing school. The line works almost entirely in solid gold, baroque pearls and diamonds, taking heirloom shapes and squaring them off into something cleaner and less fussy.
Déhanche
Erin Webb, a California native who had already spent fourteen years in Paris and co-founded the outerwear label Nour Hammour, launched Déhanche in March 2022 with four belt styles. The name is French for the asymmetrical hip tilt seen in ancient Greek statues, and Webb designs each buckle like a piece of jewelry, cast-moulded rather than stamped, made in Italy to a specification she spent a year perfecting.
Emm Kuo Bags: Clutches and Handbags by a Parsons Trained Designer
Emm Kuo is the handbag and accessories label of Emmaline Kuo Ranzman, a Parsons trained designer who grew up between Taipei, Hawaii, New York and Hong Kong before launching her own line in New York after working for Catherine Malandrino and Stephen Burrows. The specific thing that makes it hers is the global material sourcing, with evening bags handmade in studios in the Philippines under sustainability practices like natural dyeing and water conservation.
Gemella Jewels: Twin Sisters and Third-Generation Jewelers
Gemella Jewels is run by twin sisters Anna and Rachel Aschendorf out of New York, third-generation jewelers whose grandparents Fred and Stella built a jewelry business from scratch after surviving the Holocaust, eventually settling in the German jewelry town of Pforzheim. The sisters trained properly first, GIA and Diamond District certifications between them, before naming the label Gemella, Italian for twin, and leaning on the bezel settings their grandmother favored back in the 1950s rather than chasing whatever stone cut is trending.
Frédérique Dessemond: The Founder Behind Ginette NY Jewelry
Frédérique Dessemond, a Marseille-born, Sorbonne-trained art history graduate, started Ginette NY in New York in 2002 after years of customizing vintage furniture and clothing rather than making jewelry from scratch. Her breakthrough was the Disc, a plain polished gold circle threaded on a fine chain and engraved with initials, which turned fine jewelry into something meant for daily wear rather than special occasions.
Adidas x Wales Bonner
Grace Wales Bonner launched her own label in London in 2014, straight out of Central Saint Martins, and began collaborating with Adidas Originals in 2020. That partnership took the archival Samba, a 1949 football shoe, and reworked it season after season in crochet, pony hair and metallic leather until Lyst named it 2023's shoe of the year.
Stephen Russell Jewelry: Antique and Vintage 18K Gold Pieces
Russell Zelenetz, who had been headed for dental school before taking jewelry classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, teamed up with Stephen Feuerman, who had worked the jewelry trade in London, to open Stephen Russell on Madison Avenue in New York in 1984. The shop built its name on carefully vetted vintage and antique jewelry spanning the Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and retro periods, alongside original contemporary designs made in the same spirit.
Sylva & Cie
Sylva Yepremian, who was born in Lebanon, raised in Paris and trained at the jeweler's bench by her father, a master craftsman who had worked for Cartier, co-founded Sylva & Cie with her husband Raffi in Los Angeles in 2007. Their families had run jewelry businesses in the same downtown LA building for decades, and the label built its identity on hand-crafted, antique-inspired pieces drawing on Georgian and Victorian design.
Keagan Ramsamy and Louise de Rothschild: Founders of Mazarin
Louise de Rothschild and Keagan Ramsamy, who met working in the jewelry department of the Paris auction house Pierre Bergé, founded Mazarin in 2022. They named the house after Cardinal Mazarin, the 17th-century minister whose collection of exceptional diamonds became legendary, and built their own version of that history on lab-grown diamonds and recycled gold rather than antique stock.
Ivi Kyratzi's IVI: Jewelry Made With Italian Factory Craft
Ivi Kyratzi, a Cypriot designer who trained at Parsons in New York, launched her namesake jewelry label IVI in Los Angeles in 2016 after meeting Italian manufacturer Gabriele Veneri, whose family has worked metal in Arezzo, Tuscany for generations. Every piece is still produced in Veneri's Arezzo factory, and the brand's first release, the Slot collection, remains its best-selling range nearly a decade later.
Bleecker and Prince: Leehe Segal's 14K Gold Jewelry
Leehe Segal launched Bleecker and Prince in New York in the early 2010s, naming it for two SoHo streets that run close but never meet. I went through its 14K gold hoops, pendants and bangles.
Rainbow K
Kelia Toledano and Kelly Souied, childhood friends from the same street in Paris's 16th Arrondissement, founded Rainbow K in Paris in 2019 after both first built careers in finance and economics. Souied trained as a gemologist in Ramat Gan to study at the Israel Diamond Exchange, and pairs that technical eye with Toledano's Art Deco-leaning taste for antique jewelry, landing the brand somewhere between vintage revival and something more irreverent.