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Rachel Quinn Jewelry: From Painting and Sculpture to Gold

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.

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Real Fine Studio: Jewelry by Stylist Eliza O'Connor

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.

RÙADH Jeans: Rigid Denim by a Scottish-Born New York Designer

RÙADH Jeans: Rigid Denim by a Scottish-Born New York Designer

Jac Cameron, a Scottish-born denim designer who spent two decades at Abercrombie, Madewell, Calvin Klein and her own earlier brand AYR, founded RÙADH in New York around 2023 and gave the label its first public collection in late 2024. The name is Scottish Gaelic for red, colloquially used for redheads and, per Cameron, carrying older connotations of resilience, and every wash and style name in the collection traces back to a Scottish place or a family member, including a skirt named for the grandmother who taught her to sew.

Le Sundial Jewelry: Agate, Pearl and Jade From a Milan Label

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

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

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.

Matteau: The Sisters Behind the Australian Label

Matteau: The Sisters Behind the Australian Label

Matteau is an Australian label launched in 2015 by sisters Ilona Hamer and Peta Heinsen. I go through its dresses, tops and shirting, and trousers and shorts.

Emm Kuo Bags: Clutches and Handbags by a Parsons Trained Designer

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.

Rosie Assoulin Dresses: Halters, Gowns and Midis

Rosie Assoulin Dresses: Halters, Gowns and Midis

Rosie Assoulin dresses include a twisted lame maxi halter, a silk midi scarf dress and a linen jacquard gown. I start with her path, from Brooklyn to Roxanne Assoulin, Oscar de la Renta and Lanvin.

Gemella Jewels: Twin Sisters and Third-Generation Jewelers

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.

ELCE Seminyak: The Bali Swim Shop Behind the Brand

ELCE Seminyak: The Bali Swim Shop Behind the Brand

ELCE traces back to a small swim shop that Laura Sheather opened in Seminyak, Bali, in her twenties, long before she teamed up with Tara Mitchell to relaunch the label from Sydney. The pair kept the label's Bali roots and wanderlust attitude but rebuilt it as an Australian resortwear brand built around fluid, easy-to-wear cuts and a stated commitment to sustainable production.

SIEDRÉS Exclusive Nyra Velvet Maxi Dress and More Prints

SIEDRÉS Exclusive Nyra Velvet Maxi Dress and More Prints

The SIEDRÉS Exclusive Nyra Velvet Maxi Dress comes from an Istanbul label founded in September 2019 by Ceylin Türkkan and Emir Bilge. I go through the bold printed dresses, trousers, skirts and knitwear.

Tropic of C One Piece and Bikinis: Candice Swanepoel's Label

Tropic of C One Piece and Bikinis: Candice Swanepoel's Label

Tropic of C one piece swimsuits center on The C, the signature one-piece Candice Swanepoel launched with in 2018. I go through the bikini tops and bottoms and how the brand grew beyond swim.

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Frédérique Dessemond: The Founder Behind Ginette NY Jewelry

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.

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Adidas x Wales Bonner

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.

With Nothing Underneath Shirts: Cotton and Linen Basics

With Nothing Underneath Shirts: Cotton and Linen Basics

Pip Durell, a former Vogue stylist and Tatler editor, launched With Nothing Underneath in London in 2017 after years of wearing men's cotton shirts to work because she couldn't find a well-made equivalent cut for women. The label started with a single shirt style in three colorways, sourced through a manufacturing agent in Porto, before growing into a wider wardrobe of tailoring built on that same menswear-inspired logic.

The New Arrivals Ilkyaz Ozel

The New Arrivals Ilkyaz Ozel

İlkyaz Özel spent about a decade working as a freelance fashion stylist in Istanbul before launching The New Arrivals there in 2020, after also founding and running a separate label, Studio'11, from 2017. The brand built its name on eveningwear, especially slip and night dresses, filtered through what she describes as the duality of Mediterranean serenity and indulgence, relaxed daytime ease set against unapologetic nighttime glamour.

Cala de la Cruz: Colombian Resortwear, Dresses and Prints

Cala de la Cruz: Colombian Resortwear, Dresses and Prints

Carolina López Cruz launched Cala de la Cruz in 2018 in Cali, Colombia, with her mother Liliana as partner, after training in textile design at Savannah College of Art and Design and fashion at Istituto Marangoni in Milan. The label runs on bold, illustrative prints and retro-leaning silhouettes made locally by small family workshops in Cali, often to order rather than in bulk.

Paris Georgia Clothing: Basics From Two New Zealand Friends

Paris Georgia Clothing: Basics From Two New Zealand Friends

Paris Mitchell Temple and Georgia Cherrie, friends since their teens in New Zealand, launched Paris Georgia in 2015 as a small line of basics sold alongside their vintage resale shop, The Mercantile. They dropped the word Basics in 2018 to become a full label of luxe minimalism, known for curve-skimming cuts and strategic cut-outs, after debuting a full collection at stylist Maryam Nassir Zadeh's New York showroom.

Stephen Russell Jewelry: Antique and Vintage 18K Gold Pieces

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 & 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

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.

L'IDÉE

L'IDÉE

Breeana Smith and Iuliia Ievdokymenko founded L'IDÉE in Australia in 2019, splitting the label between Smith's brand and commercial direction and Ievdokymenko's design and production work based in Bali. The whole point of the label is engineered, heat-set pleating in saturated colour, a technique Smith traces back to a trip to Paris and her grandmother's vintage pleated skirt.

Zulu & Zephyr: Bondi Knit Tops and Skirts From Two Sisters

Zulu & Zephyr: Bondi Knit Tops and Skirts From Two Sisters

Sisters Candice Rose-O'Rourke and Karla Rose founded Zulu & Zephyr in Bondi Beach, Australia, in the summer of 2012, building the label's design brief around reviving their mother's 1970s prints and textures. The name pairs two deliberately contrasting ideas, Zulu for strength and Zephyr for a relaxed, floating quality, which the sisters point to as the tension the brand designs around.

Ivi Kyratzi's IVI: Jewelry Made With Italian Factory Craft

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

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

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.

Merlette

Merlette

Marina Cortbawi, an Australian who had spent years running international sales for Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, founded Merlette in New York in 2016 without any formal design training. She built the label around a gap she saw from the inside of those two houses, women who had evening wear covered but wanted seasonless, lightweight everyday clothes that traveled well.