Jewelry

Gifts for Wife: A Gift That Says I Notice

Good gifts for wife ideas say more than I remembered the date, so this edit moves from fine jewelry and silk sleepwear to bags, fragrance, and cold-weather comforts. I would choose by the little routines and details she already loves.

Christmas Gifts for Mom: The Wrap She Will Keep Close

Christmas gifts for mom can run from cashmere layers and sleepwear to jewelry, beauty sets, and small things for home. I would choose the piece that fits her ordinary Tuesday, then let the wrapping do the festive part.

Christmas Gift Ideas: A Gift That Knows Its Recipient

Christmas gift ideas, from cashmere knits and gold jewelry to candles and fragrance sets, are sorted by the kind of person who will use them. I like the present that finds its way into someone's everyday routine.

SHASHI Jewelry: Pieces Worth the Price

SHASHI is a New York jewelry label with a soft spot for color, from jewel studs to friendship bracelets. I like how it treats earrings and rings as small personal choices instead of a matching set.

Completedworks Jewelry

Completedworks turns jewelry and domestic objects into small studies in tension. Anna Jewsbury’s London studio works with sculptural forms, recycled materials and a taste for the strange beauty of things that look almost familiar. The earrings are the entry point, but the vases and glassware keep the story from ending at the jewelry box.

Marla Aaron Jewelry

Marla Aaron left a 25-year advertising career at 40 to recast a climbing carabiner into precious metal, launching her New York lock jewelry line in 2012. Notes on the necklaces, pendants and bracelets built around that working lock, and how to wear a mechanism instead of just a motif.

Marie Lichtenberg Jewelry

Marie Lichtenberg launched her jewelry line in 2019 after twelve years as a fashion editor at French Elle. Her first lockets drew on a chain her mother gave her at fourteen, and forty pieces sold through Instagram in forty-eight hours. The collection still treats sentiment, craft and a little irreverence as design material.

Martha Calvo Jewelry

Miami designer Martha Calvo created her jewelry line in 2006, building on a childhood habit of making necklaces and a love of mixing charms. She self-funded the business and its playful pieces found an audience through personal styling rather than formal restraint. The appeal is in the deliberate clash of color, symbols and shine.

Messika Jewelry

Discover Messika diamond jewelry through clean settings and fluid forms, with Parisian pieces designed for daily wear as well as evening.

Mizuki Jewelry

Mizuki Goltz founded her New York jewelry brand with her husband in 1996 after studying sculpture at the School of Visual Arts. A handmade beaded necklace sold for twenty dollars became an early nudge toward a career built around modern pearls and fluid gold lines. The work balances Japanese and American sensibilities without turning either into a costume.

Natalie B Jewelry: Pieces Worth a Closer Look

Natalie B Jewelry is a Venice Beach label that turns antique forms into jewelry for right now. Natalie Balker grew up around vintage markets and Hollywood costumes, and I wanted to look at her pieces closely.

Art Deco Dresses: 1920s Beading, Glass Fringe and Crystal Work

Beading, fringe and real evening weight

MIRANDA FRYE Jewelry: What to Know About the Pieces

MIRANDA FRYE is the Southern California jewelry line that grew out of one woman making vintage-style pieces for herself. I like how it treats jewelry as a personal thing, never as a rulebook.

Anklets for Women: How to Buy One That Reads as Jewelry

Anklets have a reputation problem and a fit problem, and the second one is fixable. How to buy one that reads as jewellery.

Ettika Jewelry: The Best Pieces Right Now

Ettika is the Los Angeles jewelry label Joey Rafaeli started in 2005, a family business with a taste for chains, charms and stacking. I like how loud it is willing to be, and this edit is about wearing that on an ordinary day.

Eliou Jewelry: The Details Worth Knowing

Éliou is a Miami jewelry label that Cristina Mantilla and Duda Teixeira started as friends in 2018. I love its beads, pearls and bright color, which make jewelry feel playful and a little sun-washed.

Eddie Borgo Jewelry: Is It Worth the Price?

Eddie Borgo is the New York jeweler who treats a necklace like a small piece of architecture. I like jewelry that has an argument to make, and his collars, cuffs and drops make it quietly.

Dorsey Earrings: A Grandmother's Clasp, Lab-Grown Stones and the Pairs Worth Wearing

This edit of Dorsey earrings runs from Sylvie rivière drops to huggies and statement pairs, with the story of how founder Meg Strachan began the brand in 2019. I would wear the short Sylvie for dinner and a huggie for every other day.

Deepa Gurnani Jewelry: Where I'd Start

Deepa Gurnani makes jewelry where Indian embroidery and artisan technique are the whole point. I am drawn to the handwork, and this edit is the earrings and bracelet I would start with.

Brinker + Eliza Jewelry: Where to Start

Brinker + Eliza is a mother-daughter jewelry label from Connecticut that treats more as a perfectly reasonable amount. I like it for the charms, the color and the small oddness in every necklace.

Bevza Dresses: The Best Pieces Right Now

Bevza is the Kyiv womenswear house Svitlana Bevza started in 2006, built on quiet minimalism, sculptural tailoring and Ukrainian symbols. I like that its restraint always has a reason behind it.

ANNI LU Jewelry: A Guide to the Best Pieces

ANNI LU is a Copenhagen jewelry label named for the founder's late mother and her daughter. Helle Vestergaard Poulsen makes colorful, playful pieces meant to be mixed, and I want to wear most of them with a white tee.

8 Other Reasons Jewelry & Bags: Best Buys Right Now

8 Other Reasons is the jewelry and handbag label Charles Lichaa started in Australia and now leads from Los Angeles, with a playful, after-dark streak. I like accessories with a little attitude, and this edit gathers the ones I would wear most.

What Personal Style Actually Means

Personal style is not a set of pieces you can buy in one order. It is a small number of decisions you keep making, which is why it survives seasons and why nobody can copy it off you. Below, dresses, tops and jewellery to build repetition into.