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Maygel Coronel: Fitted Jersey Dresses From a Cartagena Label

Maygel Coronel: Fitted Jersey Dresses From a Cartagena Label

Maygel Coronel is the Colombian designer who founded her namesake label in Cartagena de Indias in 2017, after training in patternmaking in Bogota and Cartagena and studying fashion design at the Accademia della Moda in Naples. She built the brand on second-skin construction, sleek bodysuits and swimwear designed to fit a range of bodies, an idea she developed herself after being told a fitted swimsuit line would only work for one body type.

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Sidney Garber Jewelry: The Chicago House Founded in 1946

Sidney Garber Jewelry: The Chicago House Founded in 1946

Sidney Garber, the son of a watch repairman, opened his own jewelry shop in Chicago's Mallers Building in 1946 after returning from Air Force service in World War II. He built the house by traveling to European ateliers in Paris, Valenza and Idar-Oberstein to source stones and craftsmanship directly, a habit his daughter Brooke Garber Neidich continued after she inherited the company in 2008 and moved its center of gravity to include a New York boutique.

Vidur Adlakha: The Designer Behind La Fuori Dresses

Vidur Adlakha: The Designer Behind La Fuori Dresses

Vidur Adlakha founded La Fuori in 2019 in New York after training at NIFT Mumbai and the Fashion Institute of Technology. I go through the label's floral midis, embellished maxis and silk dresses.

Silvia Furmanovich: Marquetry Jewelry in 18K Gold

Silvia Furmanovich: Marquetry Jewelry in 18K Gold

Silvia Furmanovich is a São Paulo-raised jeweler known for marquetry, wood veneers cut into flowers and animals and set in gold. I look at her earrings and the crafts from Japan and India behind each collection.

Kentshire

Kentshire

Benson Imberman opened the United States Silver Company in midtown Manhattan in 1940, and three generations of his family have run what is now Kentshire ever since. The business pivoted from silver to English and European antique furniture and, by the 1980s, to the fine antique and estate jewelry that eventually became its focus, sold through a standing boutique inside Bergdorf Goodman since 1988.

Juillet Swimwear: Broderie Anglaise Bikinis and One-Pieces

Juillet Swimwear: Broderie Anglaise Bikinis and One-Pieces

Juillet Swimwear was co-founded by Whitney Wilkerson and Lindsay Rae Hofmann in Los Angeles in September 2017, after Hofmann's earlier work in brand consulting and celebrity dressing. The label has stayed narrow on purpose, contemporary swimwear cut with the kind of finishing usually reserved for eveningwear, which is presumably why it turns up on January Jones, Hailey Bieber and Bella Hadid rather than only in beach photos.

DES_PHEMMES Dresses: Milan Label Built on Draped Silhouettes

DES_PHEMMES Dresses: Milan Label Built on Draped Silhouettes

Salvo Rizza founded DES_PHEMMES in Milan in 2019, after years spent inside Giambattista Valli's Paris ateliers working his way up to studio coordinator. The label runs his couture training through a deliberately raw, nineties-leaning lens, all Juergen Teller grain and archival Prada attitude rather than red-carpet polish.

Mason & Books: Jamie Books' 14K Gold and Diamond Jewelry

Mason & Books: Jamie Books' 14K Gold and Diamond Jewelry

Mason & Books is a New York jewelry label that designer Jamie Books launched in 2021 after roughly fifteen years in luxury accessories. I look at the 14K gold, diamond and pearl pieces, where bows and bugs inspired by her kids sit beside the craft.

Sonia And Maurice Mosseri: Founders of Still Here Denim

Sonia And Maurice Mosseri: Founders of Still Here Denim

Sonia and Maurice Mosseri, high school sweethearts from Brooklyn, started Still Here in 2018 after Sonia began hand-painting vintage denim inspired by her father's patched-up childhood Levi's. They funded the first production run with their wedding gift money and built the label into an eight-figure business without outside investors, all on the idea that a well-worn pair of jeans is basically an heirloom.

Sophie Thoerner and Vice Versa: The Jewelry Brand She Co-Founded

Sophie Thoerner and Vice Versa: The Jewelry Brand She Co-Founded

Sophie Thoerner co-founded Vice Versa with Hannah Traulsen, a Barnard alum with a background in sourcing and production. Thoerner is a Savannah College of Art and Design jewelry graduate, and I go through the 14K yellow gold pieces.

Mindi Mond: New York Fine Jewelry Founded in 2009

Mindi Mond: New York Fine Jewelry Founded in 2009

Mindi Mond founded her eponymous fine jewelry line in New York in 2009, after a career as a fashion merchandiser in the city's garment district. She started by buying antique and estate gems and finished pieces specifically to take them apart and rework them into new designs, a habit of repurposing that became the brand's working method before she launched her original Clarity Collection in 2012.

SHAY Jewelry: Link Bracelets to Gold and Diamond Pieces

SHAY Jewelry: Link Bracelets to Gold and Diamond Pieces

SHAY jewelry started as a woven chain link bracelet that Tanaz Shayan made for herself in high school. I follow it from costume jewelry into 18K yellow gold and diamond rings, earrings and necklaces.

SLVRLAKE

SLVRLAKE

Louise and Gary Edgley, a UK-born husband and wife who had both worked in fashion retail and buying, founded SLVRLAKE in Los Angeles in 2018. They built it around a narrow idea: premium denim, manufactured ethically in Los Angeles, with clean cuts and no distressing or heavy branding, after years of testing before the first collection shipped.

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Haute Victoire

Haute Victoire

Yasmina Benazzou spent over two decades as global creative director at the carpet house Tai Ping before signing up for an evening jewelry-making class in New York at 45, which led her to found Haute Victoire. The name means high victory in French, chosen because launching the label felt like a personal win after years spent designing something else entirely, and her debut collections were worked in 18k gold set with Tahitian pearls, Persian turquoise and stones pulled from flea-market brooches.

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Tabayer Oera Diamond Rings and Jewelry in 18K Gold

Tabayer Oera Diamond Rings and Jewelry in 18K Gold

The Tabayer 18kt yellow gold Oera diamond ring comes from Oera, the collection that launched the brand in 2021. I go through the Oera, Loop and Signet pieces and the Miami founder's story.

La Porte Swimwear: One-Piece Swimsuits From a Chicago Label

La Porte Swimwear: One-Piece Swimsuits From a Chicago Label

La Porte swimwear comes from Chicago designer Johanna Davenport Calica, who named the label for the French word for door. I go through the one-piece swimsuits and the tops and shirting that round out the line.

House of Dagmar Clothing: Stockholm Knitwear, Shirting, Dresses

House of Dagmar Clothing: Stockholm Knitwear, Shirting, Dresses

Three sisters, Karin Söderlind, Kristina Tjäder and Sofia Wallenstam, founded House of Dagmar in Stockholm in 2005, naming it after their grandmother, a tailor whose craftsmanship shaped their sense of quality. The label built its name on knitwear and clean tailoring that pairs Scandinavian minimalism with a genuine trend instinct, an early adopter of sustainability within Swedish fashion.

Lié Studio: Copenhagen Jewelry and Bags From Twin Sisters

Lié Studio: Copenhagen Jewelry and Bags From Twin Sisters

Lié Studio was founded in Copenhagen in November 2021 by twin sisters Amalie and Cecilie Moosgaard, former runway models who had walked for Gucci, Valentino and Prada before building their own label with business partners at Brand Institute. The specific thing that makes the brand what it is: a small set of core minimalist gold and silver jewelry pieces, designed by two people who by their own account were not natural jewelry buyers before they started making it themselves.

SIR. Dresses: Silk Minis, Gowns and the Bondi Label Story

SIR. Dresses: Silk Minis, Gowns and the Bondi Label Story

SIR. dresses come from a label Nikki Campbell and Sophie Coote started in Bondi in 2014. I go through the silk minis, gowns and maxis, then skirts, shirting and swim.

JW Anderson

JW Anderson

Jonathan Anderson, a Northern Irish designer who trained at London College of Fashion and worked as a visual merchandiser at Prada, founded JW Anderson in London in 2008. The label made its name on a deliberate blur between menswear and womenswear silhouettes, an idea Anderson later called a shared wardrobe, and it built a cult following well before he was named creative director of Loewe in 2013.

Majestic Filatures: The Paris Label Built on the Plain T-Shirt

Majestic Filatures: The Paris Label Built on the Plain T-Shirt

Roland Chelly, the son of a tailor, launched Majestic Filatures out of Paris in 1989 with a fairly narrow, almost stubborn idea: take the plain T-shirt and give it the attention usually reserved for tailoring. The house built its own yarns rather than buying stock fabric, folding cashmere, silk, linen and wool into what started as a cotton-only proposition, and it still manufactures exclusively in France and Europe outside of Mongolian cashmere.

Jamie Wolf Jewelry: A Former Ballet Dancer's 18K Gold Designs

Jamie Wolf Jewelry: A Former Ballet Dancer's 18K Gold Designs

Jamie Wolf grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side and spent about a decade dancing professionally with the New York City Ballet before she left the stage to design jewelry full time, a hobby she had kept up during off-seasons since around 2001. She works mainly in 18k gold set with precious and semi-precious stones, made in New York City, on the belief that femininity is timeless and beauty lives in the finest details.

Sea New York: Dresses, Tops and Swim by Monahan and Paolini

Sea New York: Dresses, Tops and Swim by Monahan and Paolini

Sean Monahan and Monica Paolini, childhood friends from Newburgh, New York, founded Sea in New York City in 2007, running the label out of a converted Canal Street factory that doubled as their apartment before it was ever a real office. Paolini brought design-director experience from Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart, and that push-pull between her vintage-leaning eye and Monahan's cleaner, more modern instincts is still the label's defining dynamic.

Fiametta: Lab-Grown Diamond Jewelry by Merill Hollander

Fiametta: Lab-Grown Diamond Jewelry by Merill Hollander

Merill Hollander founded Fiametta in New York in 2023 after a career that started at Bloomingdale's buying desk and ran through a Wharton MBA. The label works exclusively in lab-grown diamonds and frames itself as a rewrite of fine jewelry's rulebook, drawing openly on Hollander's experience as a queer woman deciding which traditions to keep and which to drop.

Negative

Negative

Lauren Schwab and Marissa Vosper met as freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania with zero fashion or manufacturing background, then spent roughly four years researching the intimates industry, including classes at FIT, before self-funding Negative Underwear's 2014 launch. The founding idea was blunt: strip lingerie of the lace and embellishment that dominated the category and sell it as clean, minimal basics instead, a thesis that has since stretched into sleepwear, loungewear and now ready-to-wear.

Janessa Leone

Janessa Leone

Janessa Leone launched her eponymous hat line in Los Angeles in 2013, funded with personal savings from years of nannying while she considered law school. The origin story is oddly literal: on a trip to Paris she bought a vintage men's hat, opened the sweatband, and found the milliner's surname stitched inside, the same as her own.

Zeynep Arçay Dresses: Silk Midis and Maxis From Istanbul

Zeynep Arçay Dresses: Silk Midis and Maxis From Istanbul

Zeynep Arçay left a nearly two-decade career as a technology executive in Istanbul to launch her namesake label, named after her grandmother, in the early 2010s. She built the brand around paper-thin leather sourced from Leather Working Group-certified tanneries, engineered to move like fabric rather than sit stiff the way leather usually does.

Tom Ford

Tom Ford

Tom Ford trained as an architect at Parsons School of Design before joining Gucci in 1990, a house then weighed down by family disputes and near insolvency, and rose to Creative Director by 1994, driving sales up roughly ninety percent within two years. He left Gucci Group in 2004 after a contract dispute and launched his own label in 2005, opening a Madison Avenue flagship in 2007 built around the same architectural rigor and unapologetic glamour he brought to Gucci.