Bleecker and Prince: Leehe Segal's 14K Gold Jewelry

Bleecker and Prince: Leehe Segal's 14K Gold Jewelry

Leehe Segal launched Bleecker and Prince in New York in the early 2010s, naming it for two SoHo streets that run close but never meet. I went through its 14K gold hoops, pendants and bangles.

Collage of rings, earrings and layered necklaces worn up close, in the spirit of Bleecker & Prince

Jewelry

Segal designs the way she talks about her adopted city: two streets that are close but structurally can't intersect, held in the same sentence anyway. That tension between polish and edge shows up here as gold pieces that read fine-jewelry serious without going precious, the kind of thing that ended up on Emily in Paris almost by accident. It is a small, focused collection, which tracks for a designer who spent her apprenticeship learning sourcing and sales before she ever put her own name on a piece.

A focused entry to gold and diamonds

A brand built on a Bergdorf Goodman placement within its first year has earned the benefit of the doubt, and the Emily in Paris moment reads more like validation than a lucky break given the training underneath it. It is still a young label without decades of archive to lean on, so the edit works best as a focused entry point into Segal's gold and diamond pieces rather than a sprawling one. I’d keep exploring Bleecker & Prince’s gold-and-diamond direction alongside rings, necklaces and charms, especially when I want a small piece to set the tone.