Bleecker & Prince

Bleecker & Prince

Leehe Segal launched Bleecker & Prince in New York in the early 2010s, naming it for two SoHo streets, Bleecker and Prince, that run close but never actually meet. She trained at FIT and spent two years learning the trade at a diamond manufacturer in Tel Aviv's Diamond District before striking out on her own, and Bergdorf Goodman picked the line up within a year of launch.

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.

Our honest take

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.