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Elior Jewelry

Elior Jewelry

Elior Mordechai started learning the jewelry trade at fourteen, interning summers at his family's wholesale diamond business before training in metalsmithing at the Fashion Institute of Technology and in design at the New York Jewelry Design Institute. His pieces lean maximalist and pattern-heavy, a sensibility he traces to his Persian heritage and a grandfather who dealt in Middle Eastern antiques.

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Heaven Mayhem Jewelry

Heaven Mayhem Jewelry

Pia Mance started Heaven Mayhem in Los Angeles in 2022 with a small amount of starting capital, hand-tying cord necklaces from vintage pendants she sourced herself and packing every order alone. A chance run-in with Hailey Bieber at an LA coffee shop in 2023 turned the brand's earrings into a recurring celebrity fixture and pushed it into wider retail.

EF Collection Jewelry

EF Collection Jewelry

Emily Faith Strauss started EF Collection in Los Angeles in 2010, initially curating other designers' jewelry for trunk shows before she began designing her own pieces by 2013. The line took its name from her own initials and built a following on 14 karat gold and diamonds in stacking, huggie and charm formats that read as fine jewelry without the stiffness.

Renato Cipullo Jewelry

Renato Cipullo Jewelry

Renato Cipullo was born in Naples and grew up in Rome in a family of jewelers, later opening a boutique on Ischia in 1967 before settling in New York, where his brother Aldo designed Cartier's Love bracelet. He launched his own jewelry collection in 1974, drawing on years spent by the sea for motifs in shell, coral and gold that still recur in his work.

Melissa Kaye Jewelry

Melissa Kaye Jewelry

Melissa Kaye spent a decade as a quantitative strategist at Goldman Sachs, with an engineering degree from MIT and a computational finance master's from Carnegie Mellon, before enrolling in the two-year jewelry design program at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and launching her eponymous fine jewelry line in 2013. Her training shows less in ornament than in structure, diamond-set pieces built on clean, architectural lines that only loosened up once she began introducing color through enamel later in the decade.

NeverNoT Jewelry

NeverNoT Jewelry

NeverNoT was founded in 2018 in London by Georgian-born friends Nina Dzhokhadze, who had worked in sales and business development at Burberry and Stephen Webster, and Natia Chkhartishvili, a stylist who had previously run her own accessories brand. The specific thing that makes the label recognizable is its mix of large, precious stones with bold enamel and neon color, built to make fine jewelry feel like an everyday object rather than a special occasion one.

Sylvia Toledano Jewelry

Sylvia Toledano Jewelry

Sylvia Toledano grew up in Paris with a childhood spent partly in Africa, studied law, then trained in style and sculpture before launching her own jewelry line around 2007 or 2008. She calls her aesthetic neo-vintage, pieces handmade in patinated, textured gilded brass and set with semi-precious stones, and her boutique still sits near Place Vendôme on rue Danielle Casanova.

Sheryl Lowe Jewelry

Sheryl Lowe Jewelry

Sheryl Lowe started making jewelry as a teenager in 1970s Southern California, then spent decades working as a Hollywood makeup artist on more than thirty films before turning her hobby into a real business after a 2006 favor for California First Lady Maria Shriver. She made fifty five beaded, pave diamond necklaces for a women's conference gift bag, the orders that followed pushed her out of her dining room and into an actual studio, and she still hand-selects gemstones and beads collected on her own travels.

Joie DiGiovanni Jewelry

Joie DiGiovanni Jewelry

Joie DiGiovanni, a Philadelphia native, started designing jewelry in the early 2010s while recovering from a serious car accident that left her with several autoimmune conditions. Her signature is baroque South Sea and Tahitian pearls set against leather and diamonds, a pairing she traces back to how a pearl itself forms, as an irritant transformed into something beautiful.

Versace Dresses and Knitwear

Versace Dresses and Knitwear

Gianni Versace founded his namesake house in Milan in 1978, showing his first womenswear collection at the Palazzo della Permanente and opening a boutique on Via della Spiga the same year, after six years designing for other Italian labels including Genny and Callaghan. His siblings ran the business alongside him, brother Santo on the financial side and sister Donatella eventually as creative director, a role she held after Gianni's death in 1997 and that shaped the house for decades.

Bea Bongiasca 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.

Cult Gaia Bags and Dresses

Cult Gaia Bags and Dresses

Jasmin Larian started Cult Gaia in 2012, making flower crowns and wired-fabric headbands for friends around New York while she was training at FIT. The label found its real signature in the bamboo Ark bag, a sculptural, unmistakable shape that turned a slow-burning accessory into one of the decade's most photographed bags and pushed the brand into ready-to-wear, footwear and eventually bridal.

VRAI Jewelry

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.

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Rene Barnes Jewelry

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.

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Janessa Leone Bags

Janessa Leone Bags

Janessa Leone bought a vintage men's dress hat in Paris, later found the original milliner's surname stitched inside was also Leone, and turned that discovery into her own Los Angeles hat line in 2013. Notes on which hat shapes hold up to daily wear and where the bags and belts fit into that idea.

Judith Leiber Couture Bags

Judith Leiber Couture Bags

Judith Leiber, a Budapest-trained handbag maker who survived the Nazi occupation and emigrated to New York in 1947, started her own company there in 1963 after twelve years working for designer Nettie Rosenstein. A shipment of poorly plated brass frames pushed her to cover the flaws in crystals, and that fix became the house's signature minaudière, the small, sculptural evening bag later carried by numerous First Ladies.

KATKIM Jewelry

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.

Quiet Luxury

Quiet Luxury

Old money aesthetics are having a full moment and nobody's being subtle about it. think understated fits that still scream wealth.

Matthew Bruch Jeans and Dresses

Matthew Bruch Jeans and Dresses

Matthew Bruch launched his namesake label for spring/summer 2020 after graduating from Pratt Institute's fashion design program and working for several other lifestyle brands. He built the line around a specific gap he saw in resort wear, easy vacation staples and swimwear designed with more restraint than the ruffled, printed norm, produced in New York from Italian and French fabrications.

DL1961 Jeans and Knitwear

DL1961 Jeans and Knitwear

DL1961 started in 2008 in New York, launched by the Ahmed family after decades running a premium denim manufacturing business behind the scenes. What sets the label apart is XFIT Lycra, a patented cotton-wrapped stretch thread developed in-house that the brand has spent years refining for fit and recovery, alongside a water-conscious production process it introduced in 2013.

Quiet Luxury: Khaite Tops, Skirts and Pumps

Quiet Luxury: Khaite Tops, Skirts and Pumps

Quiet luxury means clean lines and quality fabrics that do not announce themselves. I gathered Khaite tops, skirts and pumps in that spirit.

Leset Knitwear

Leset Knitwear

Lili Chemla launched Leset in New York in 2019, pitching it at department stores who reportedly struggled to categorize it: not quite loungewear, not quite traditional ready-to-wear. The label built its identity around matching sets and refined basics rather than seasonal statement pieces, launching exclusively on Net-a-Porter that same year.

Savette Bags

Savette Bags

Amy Zurek founded Savette in New York in 2020, after studying art history and fashion design at Parsons, then working at The Row and building Khaite's handbag line from scratch alongside founder Cate Holstein. She named the label after her mother's maiden name and built its design language around two women, her mother's classic taste in leather goods and her grandmother's eye for sculptural jewelry.

Prom Dresses: How to Choose One You'll Still Like in Ten Years

Prom Dresses: How to Choose One You'll Still Like in Ten Years

Prom is one of the only nights when a dress gets worn for hours, photographed constantly, and then kept for decades instead of discarded after one wear. That is why the choice is less about chasing a trend and more about picking a silhouette, color, and construction that will still feel like you later. This edit treats the dress as something to live with, not just something to wear once.

CANO Jewelry

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.

Maticevski Dresses

Maticevski Dresses

Toni Maticevski, a Melbourne designer who trained at RMIT and worked briefly for Donna Karan and Cerruti, launched his namesake label in Melbourne in 1998. He built a reputation on draping and sculptural, demi-couture silhouettes, an approach that earned him the 2016 Australian Fashion Laureate and a retrospective at Bendigo Art Gallery.

Proenza Schouler White Label: Jackets, Dresses and Knits for the Week

Proenza Schouler White Label: Jackets, Dresses and Knits for the Week

Proenza Schouler White Label turns the main line's sharp shapes into clothes meant for an actual week rather than a single dinner reservation. Jackets, dresses, and knits share a New York-inflected edge without asking for special occasions to justify them. This edit treats the label as a wardrobe to build from, not a single standout piece.

Erdem Dresses and Knitwear

Erdem Dresses and Knitwear

Erdem Moralioglu, a Royal College of Art graduate raised in Montreal, founded his eponymous London label in 2005 after a debut at Fashion Fringe won him prize money and a Harrods order. The house has spent two decades refining a very specific idea of femininity: sweeping, floral, historically literate, never literal about it.