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.

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. 🕶️

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

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.