Their grandmother's necklaces were worn by Frida Kahlo. Her bracelets sat in Peggy Guggenheim's collection. Her coterie included Diego Rivera, Anais Nin, Helena Rubinstein. When Phoebe and Annette Stephens founded Anndra Neen in 2009, they were not starting a jewelry label from scratch. They were picking up a thread their grandmother had laid down in a Mexico City atelier sixty years earlier, and they were determined not to drop it.

Rebecca Manners has been to the volcanic mountain ranges of Java hunting for agatized fossils. She has lived with tribes in the Kayah state of Myanmar. She has drunk gallons of sugary coffee waiting for Master Goldsmiths to trust her enough to begin. She no longer creates large collections. She creates bespoke pieces — each one a living record of the hands and the culture and the place that made it. She calls it the Art of Slow, mindful luxury. It is exactly that: slow, but made to the highest quality. Patience and time is needed.

Born in France, shaped by New York, crafted in Japan. Nessy Khem's Never Dies collection is eyewear as storytelling — and WESH, her Nolita concept store, is the room she's making for everyone else. 🕶️

Belgian-Korean jewellery designer Kim Mee Hye on wearable architecture, hidden mechanisms, the click of a clasp, Antwerp craftsmanship, and jewels for women who don't consider fine jewellery suited only to a particular occasion.

A handwritten letter from a loved one. Political graffiti scrawled on a prison wall. A page ripped from an old newspaper. Inscriptions from a 1937 coin. These are the fragments of Palestinian life that Nafsika Skourti has embedded into fabric. Not as metaphor. As documentation. Volume II: Traces of Being is the second chapter in her series حُبِّي فِلَسطِين, My Love, Palestine, and it is among the most important things happening in fashion right now.

Paula Mendoza was a journalist before she was a goldsmith. One course changed everything: Jewelry as Sculpture, at Washington's Corcoran School of the Arts. A pilgrimage through Peru's ancient filigree workshops did the rest. Today her pieces are worn by Beyonce, Zendaya, and Sarah Jessica Parker, her artisans in Bogota have worked with her for over a decade, and her wedding in 2026 had a dress code of all black, a lineup of five DJs from Burning Man, and a theme called Rave Royale. She is, as Leila says, something special.

Defiance is elemental. That is the first thing Priscilla Franco Asturias says about Sorelina, the jewelry studio she founded with her sister Andrea in Los Angeles in 2011. A reaction between heat and pressure which creates something new and beautiful. Lava meets diamonds. Raw wood meets rubies. The result is jewelry that feels like it was made by the earth itself and then finished by a very careful hand.

She walked into a fabric shop as an economics student and felt something she couldn't ignore. Julia Kalmanovich has been following that feeling ever since — through a mentorship with the Patriarch of Russian fashion, a solo debut in 2009, and a sparkling red gown that sold out before the season even began. We caught up with the designer on clients, icons, and the art of dressing spontaneously

Natalie Holst and Rochelle Lee didn't just move to New York — they stormed it. HOLST + LEE was born from friendship, a mutual love of cool things, and the desire to craft accessories that feel more like wearable art than mere adornments. Their muses include Iris Apfel, Alexa Chung, and Barry Weiss from Storage Wars. Their brand appears in over 275 retailers worldwide.

A graduate of Istituto Marangoni, trained under Zac Posen and Carlos Campos, Gabriela Goldbaum could have gone anywhere. She went back to Ecuador. What she built there, with 500 craftswomen and organic toquilla straw harvested by hand in Manabi province, is one of the most quietly radical things in contemporary accessories. The hat ends up at Colette. The subway gives her the ideas. The earthquake rebuilds the community.

They met at Luisa's 18th birthday party at Villa Medici in Rome. What sealed the friendship wasn't fashion — it was a broken fridge with an almost identical sign in both their kitchens. From that moment, everything followed: evenings painting and drawing near Piazza di Spagna, a first pochette folded and hand-sewn by candlelight, a move to Paris, and TL-180.