Jewelry

Bea Bongiasca Jewelry

Bea Bongiasca launched her eponymous jewelry line in Milan in 2013, straight out of Central Saint Martins, debuting her first collection at 10 Corso Como the following year. The label is built on candy colored enamel wrapped around gemstones, a playful, sculptural language that treats fine jewelry like it should not take itself too seriously.

VRAI Jewelry

Vanessa Stofenmacher and Chelsea Nicholson founded the label in Los Angeles in 2014 as Vrai & Oro, selling made-to-order recycled-gold jewelry before the diamond producer Diamond Foundry acquired the business and shortened the name to VRAI in 2019. Every stone the house sets now comes from its own zero-emission foundry in Wenatchee, Washington, which produced what the company describes as the world's first carbon-neutral certified lab-grown diamond in 2017.

Rene Barnes Jewelry

Rene Barnes launched her eponymous fine jewelry line in May 2022, working out of Charleston, South Carolina, with pieces cast in New York City. Every design starts with Barnes hand-sculpting wax herself before it goes through lost-wax casting, so the resulting pieces keep a slightly irregular, hand-carved quality rather than a machine-perfect finish.

KATKIM Jewelry

Katherine Kim launched KATKIM in New York in the fall of 2015 after training in graphic design in Pasadena and then jewelry at Central Saint Martins in London and the Fashion Institute of Technology. The brand is built around a single idea she developed at her kitchen table, the Ear Pin, a slim gold spear that threads through the piercing and locks behind the ear, since multiplied into diamond-paved and petite versions.

CANO Jewelry

CANO began as a family obsession, not a fashion label: in Bogotá, Guillermo Cano trained as a goldsmith in Germany before opening a boutique in 1968 to recreate the pre-Columbian gold pieces his grandfather Nemesio had unearthed decades earlier. Its defining fact is a license, not a trend: CANO is the only jewelry house authorized by the Banco de la República's Gold Museum to reproduce pieces from its collection, using the same lost-wax casting the original goldsmiths used.

Chan Luu Jewelry

Chan Luu started her namesake line in 1996 out of a Los Angeles garage, after two decades working retail floors and buying desks around the fashion industry. The label built its name on handmade jewelry produced with artisans in Vietnam and India, the kind of wrap bracelets and beaded pieces that made her a fixture on 2000s red carpets long before hers was a household name.

Jenna Blake Jewelry

Jenna Grosfeld launched her namesake fine jewelry label, Jenna Blake, in Los Angeles after building a personal collection of antique pieces for two decades. The work is handcrafted in LA and takes its cues from Art Deco and mid-century jewelers, including Boucheron and René Boivin, reworked in color and scale for a stack-it-all-on approach rather than a single statement piece.

Pomellato Jewelry: Color, Scale and Milanese Swagger

Pomellato treats fine jewelry like a wardrobe, with color, scale, and a little Milanese swagger built into every piece. Founded in Milan by Pino Rabolini in 1967, the house introduced the idea of prêt-à-porter jewelry and made colored stones feel modern rather than ceremonial. The Nudo and Iconica families still carry that direct, tactile point of view.

Julietta Jewelry

Juliana Liden, a Brazil-born, Brooklyn-based self-taught designer, launched Julietta in 2021 after an earlier hair-accessories line failed to catch on. She pivoted to jewelry in 2022, hand-painting and reworking a stash of deadstock 1980s components into sculptural, earth- and sea-themed pieces that Moda Operandi picked up as its first global stockist.

Polished Pieces That Look Designer (But Aren't)

Polished blazers, faux leather trousers, loafers and soft knits that look like designer pieces. This is for anyone who wants a sharp, pulled together wardrobe without the designer label.

Jia Jia Jewelry

Jia Jia was founded in February 2020 by Jia-Jia Zhu, a former fashion buyer at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue who left retail to study yoga and crystals in Bali before turning that interest into a jewelry line. The brand's signature is raw, uncut and unpolished crystal set into 14k and 18k gold, a deliberately unfinished look that treats the stone as the whole point rather than something to be smoothed over.

Marie Mas Jewelry

Marie Mas was founded in Paris in January 2017 by Marie Cabirou, who trained at the Ecole Duperre and the Institut Francais de la Mode before spending several years designing jewelry under Raf Simons at Christian Dior Couture. She named the house after her maternal grandmother, Henriette Mas, and built its identity around a patented technique that lets a stone physically swing between two settings, an idea she traces to watching Christmas tree worms move underwater.

Sydney Evan Jewelry

Rosanne Karmes founded Sydney Evan in Los Angeles in 2001, naming it after her two children, Sydney and Evan, and her late father, Sy, after years working in fine jewelry manufacturing and running her own accessories showroom. She launched with a single pavé-diamond horseshoe necklace and diamond-set charm bracelets, a hard sell to retailers at first until Serena Williams wore a Sydney Evan moon pendant in InStyle and Neiman Marcus picked up the line in 2006.

Moritz Glik Jewelry

Moritz Glik founded his eponymous jewelry line in New York in 2003, after leaving a shoe company he ran in his native Belo Horizonte, Brazil and teaching himself jewelry-making once he arrived in the city in 1991. His signature invention, the Kaleidoscope Shaker, encases loose, uncut gemstones inside capsules of white sapphire crystal and gold so the stones move freely

AGMES Jewelry

AGMES makes New York jewelry with the clarity of small sculpture, using clean lines, recycled metals and forms that feel closer to architecture than ornament. Sisters Morgan and Jaclyn Solomon founded the label in 2016, drawing on modernist art, urban settings and the idea of the modern heirloom. The pieces are distinctive without asking for a maximalist outfit around them.

Completedworks Jewelry

Completedworks turns jewelry and domestic objects into small studies in tension. Anna Jewsbury’s London studio works with sculptural forms, recycled materials and a taste for the strange beauty of things that look almost familiar. The earrings are the entry point, but the vases and glassware keep the story from ending at the jewelry box.

By Pariah Jewelry

By Pariah was founded in London in 2016 by Sophie Karg, after a career in luxury fashion communications and a longstanding interest in materials. Karg named the brand after a National Geographic story about remote parts of the Caribbean and began with raw stones, recycled metals and sculptural forms. The jewelry feels considered but not over-polished, as if the material is allowed to keep its weather.

De Beers London Jewelry

De Beers London brings the diamond house’s long relationship with the stone into a more modern, design-led frame. The wider De Beers story reaches back to 1888, while the jewellery house itself launched in 2001 and now pairs London energy with southern African roots. Here, rings, earrings and necklaces make the case for diamonds that feel considered rather than over-explained.

Ole Lynggaard Earrings: 18-Karat Gold Pieces Shaped by Nature

Ole Lynggaard earrings come in 18-karat gold, from Snakes with turquoise to Boho with quartz and tourmaline. The Copenhagen house began in a small Hellerup workshop in 1963, and I look at how nature shapes each piece.

Ileana Makri Jewelry

Ileana Makri launched her eponymous jewelry line in 1998 after studying design at the Gemological Institute of America and returning to the gemstone language she had loved since childhood. Her Athens-based work is made with local artisans and balances fine materials with a sense of movement, from cord and beads to diamonds, enamel and colored stones. The collection reads like modern talismans rather than a parade of formal jewelry.

Marla Aaron Jewelry

Marla Aaron left a 25-year advertising career at 40 to recast a climbing carabiner into precious metal, launching her New York lock jewelry line in 2012. Notes on the necklaces, pendants and bracelets built around that working lock, and how to wear a mechanism instead of just a motif.

Lucy Delius Jewelry

Lucy Delius makes fine jewelry that treats the past as a source of attitude rather than a museum display. Launched in 2022 after years in the jewelry industry, the London label draws on Victorian silhouettes, pocket-watch chains and the designer’s family love of collected pieces. Gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls give the references enough weight to feel personal from the first wear.

Repossi Jewelry

Repossi treats fine jewelry as a piece of modern architecture worn on the body. Founded in Turin in 1957 by Costantino Repossi, the family house later moved into a more radical language under Gaia Repossi, whose work draws on art, architecture, and the idea of diamonds floating on skin. The result is precise, graphic, and made to be noticed up close.

Roxanne First Jewelry

Roxanne First makes fine jewelry feel personal, playful, and easy to wear before it becomes formal. South Africa-born, London-based founder Roxanne First launched her namesake studio in 2018 after a decade in luxury marketing and a growing side practice designing engagement rings for friends. Diamonds, colored stones, and charming shapes give the collection its direct emotional pull.