Featured at London's Dover Street Market, we're keeping an eye on these new designers.

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Photo courtesy of Dover Street Market

An unconventional haven of jewellery, trinkets and odd accessories, our trip to Dover Street Market revealed many hidden treasures:  including up-and-coming designers to add to our favourites. Make sure you know their names to add to your wish list.


 Sophie Bille Brahe 

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The Copenhagen-based designer has a particularly Danish aesthetic despite being educated at the Royal College of Art in London. Sophie Bille Brahe’s designs all have a celestial feel and are inspired by constellations that are then rendered into physical form using diamonds and pearls. Her most famous design is the Croissant de Lune, which many say sparked the ear cuff trend and which she claims to wear almost every day—including at the gym, which is particularly impressive.


Nikos Koulis 

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The award-winning Greek designer carries the spirit of his sunny islands everywhere. Nikos Koulis makes earrings, necklaces and rings that will have you dreaming of the Mediterranean even in the depths of winter—we’re talking sun-shaped earrings, waterfall-shaped necklaces that hang right down to the lower back, and spiky jewel-encrusted rings. Check out his flagship store on Mykonos next time you’re boating in Greece.


Raphaele Canot 

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She may look a bit like Audrey Hepburn, but Raphaele Canot’s diamond-based jewellery couldn’t be more different from Holly Golightly’s favourite brand. Her signature is to free diamonds from their traditional settings and instead laser pierce them to the bracelet or earrings so it looks like they are hanging on an invisible thread—the effect is like being confronted by a shard of light. One of the most rule-breaking jewellers around, Canot injects a touch of French insouciance into all her pieces.


Maison Dauphin

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Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld (yes, she’s French) grew tired of all her friends sporting unoriginal engagement rings, pendants and earrings. So to help them be a little more interesting, she launched Maison Dauphin, a brand focused on visually arresting minimalism. Think golden ear cages, double rings that balance 3D geometric forms between the fingers and disruptive engagement rings made from blue gold and black diamonds.


Ana Khouri 

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Like any good Brazilian, Ana Khouri is very focused on the body—well, more specifically the connection between the body and the mind. She started her career as a sculptor but soon realised that she was more interested in designing art for the body than recreating the body in art. She uses traditional gems in an experimental setting: think triple-band earrings and three-quarter necklaces that challenge perceptions of typical jewellery.


William Welstead

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The British designer is inspired by jewels from India and still travels to Mumbai and Jaipur every year on gem-scouting missions. For William Welstead, the gem is king and his settings are entirely inspired by the jewel itself, many of which are flawless pieces found in Burma, Colombia or India and cut in unique ways using techniques now very rare in the West. Think vast yellow sapphires set in gold as rings, earrings or necklaces.


 This article was originally published on Hong Kong Tatler