Accessories

CANO

CANO began as a family obsession, not a fashion label: in Bogotá, Guillermo Cano trained as a goldsmith in Germany before opening a boutique in 1968 to recreate the pre-Columbian gold pieces his grandfather Nemesio had unearthed decades earlier. Its defining fact is a license, not a trend: CANO is the only jewelry house authorized by the Banco de la República's Gold Museum to reproduce pieces from its collection, using the same lost-wax casting the original goldsmiths used.

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.

Adidas x Wales Bonner

Grace Wales Bonner launched her own label in London in 2014, straight out of Central Saint Martins, and began collaborating with Adidas Originals in 2020. That partnership took the archival Samba, a 1949 football shoe, and reworked it season after season in crochet, pony hair and metallic leather until Lyst named it 2023's shoe of the year.

Elior

Elior Mordechai started learning the jewelry trade at fourteen, interning summers at his family's wholesale diamond business before training in metalsmithing at the Fashion Institute of Technology and in design at the New York Jewelry Design Institute. His pieces lean maximalist and pattern-heavy, a sensibility he traces to his Persian heritage and a grandfather who dealt in Middle Eastern antiques.

Le Sundial

Silvia Dusci started Le Sundial in Milan after a career in communications, where she says she learned how brands construct narrative and, just as often, how much distance can open up between image and substance. Her jewelry leans into Art Deco references and vintage-informed detail, designed as what she calls quiet companions rather than trend pieces, meant to be returned to instead of replaced.

Haute Victoire

Yasmina Benazzou spent over two decades as global creative director at the carpet house Tai Ping before signing up for an evening jewelry-making class in New York at 45, which led her to found Haute Victoire. The name means high victory in French, chosen because launching the label felt like a personal win after years spent designing something else entirely, and her debut collections were worked in 18k gold set with Tahitian pearls, Persian turquoise and stones pulled from flea-market brooches.

Rene Barnes

Rene Barnes launched her eponymous fine jewelry line in May 2022, working out of Charleston, South Carolina, with pieces cast in New York City. Every design starts with Barnes hand-sculpting wax herself before it goes through lost-wax casting, so the resulting pieces keep a slightly irregular, hand-carved quality rather than a machine-perfect finish.

State Property

State Property is the Singaporean fine jewelry label started in 2015 by married couple Afzal Imram, trained in industrial design at the National University of Singapore, and Lin Ruiyin, trained in contemporary jewelry design at Central Saint Martins in London. They funded their first collection through commission work before launching properly, won Emerging Accessories Designer of the Year at the Singapore Fashion Awards in 2017, and landed their first major celebrity placement in 2018 when Nicole Kidman wore their earrings to a film premiere.

Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo trained shoemakers in Hollywood before returning home to incorporate his company in Florence in 1927, chasing better artisans than he could find in America. He spent the following decades engineering the shoe as much as designing it, patenting the cork wedge and steel shank and improvising with raffia and nylon during wartime material shortages.

Engelbert

Heribert Engelbert, a trained goldsmith, opened his jewelry business in Stockholm in 1920, and the company has stayed in family hands for four generations since. It survived a mid-century pivot into wedding and engagement jewelry set with diamonds at a time when Scandinavian bands were traditionally plain gold, plus a stint operating a Fifth Avenue office in New York in the 1960s under brothers Lars and Peter Engelbert.

Annette Ferdinandsen

Annette Ferdinandsen trained as a sculptor at the Rhode Island School of Design and found jewellery while studying studio art, which is the most useful fact about her work. Her father and grandfather were both model makers for Danish sculptors, so casting and carving are a family inheritance.

TACIT

Michelle Fantaci, a New York jeweler who had run her own eponymous jewelry business since 2007 before developing this collection. The line takes its playful cue from the buoyant lift of Mylar balloons, translating that into 18k gold pieces mixed with ceramic color-coated silver and traceable diamonds, designed in New York and made by an RJC-certified partner.

Mason and Books

Jamie Books, a New York-based designer with roughly fifteen years in luxury accessories, launched Mason and Books in 2021 after a handful of pieces she made for herself, including a bow ring and a bow pendant, sold out once she posted them online. She named the label for her children, pairing her daughter's middle name with her son's initials, and built the collection around whimsical, colorful motifs rather than conventional fine-jewelry staples.