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.

She founded one of the first publications for the Arab fashion world at 24, edited Condé Nast's Middle East launch, wrote a novel for Gallimard, and is raising a son while ghost-following every Bachelor contestant. Sofia Guellaty is a lot. ✨