Gazza Ladra Jewelry: Gold Necklaces and Earrings Built in New York

Gazza Ladra Jewelry: Gold Necklaces and Earrings Built in New York

Gazza Ladra jewelry was built in New York by Sunny Setton De Poortere, a former documentary film producer and tour manager. I picked the gold necklaces and earrings, from lizard earrings to a single shell earring.

Collage of rings, earrings and layered necklaces worn up close, in the spirit of Gazza Ladra

Jewelry

De Poortere had no formal jewelry training when she started, she learned at the bench alongside a master jeweler and later took night classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and that hands-on route shows in pieces built around meaning rather than pure ornament. Eyes, phoenixes and recycling-symbol pendants sit next to gold and gemstone signature pieces, all handmade in New York's diamond district.

A talisman for every influence

A magpie is a fitting mascot for a designer who describes her own process as gleaning influences from everywhere she has traveled, and the collection does read like a well-edited hoard rather than a single tidy theme. It works because the talismanic framing gives even a maximalist mix of motifs a reason to sit together on one body. For a few more meaningful layers beside Gazza Ladra’s collected mix, I’d browse rings, necklaces and charms and find the details that feel like little travel keepsakes.