Accessories

Best Designer Mini Bags: Cult Gaia, Leather and Embellished Picks

The best designer mini bags change the mood of an outfit. Shop 40 from Cult Gaia, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Balenciaga.

The Sneakers Edit

The sneakers edit is really a guide to choosing between polish, texture and actual visual energy.

The Mini Bags Edit

The best mini bags hold the essentials and sharpen an outfit. Shop mini shoulder bags, leather shapes, embellished styles and crossbodies.

The Crossbody Bags Edit

The best crossbody bags are small enough to leave your hands free and serious enough to finish an outfit.

Best Clutch Bags: Evening Clutches for Every Night Out

The clutches for every evening out: 40 designer clutches from Olympia Le-Tan, Saint Laurent, Amanu and ERDEM.

Raffia and Woven Bags Beyond Summer

The woven bags that are not just for summer: 44 raffia and woven bags from Loewe, Bembien and Hunting Season.

The Hat Edit: Fedoras, Berets, Beanies and Bucket Hats

The hat edit runs from fedoras, berets and brims to beanies, straw shapes and bucket hats, all picked to finish an outfit.

Best Leather Totes

The best leather totes right now are big and woven, like the Dragon Diffusion Nantucket and Bamboo Triple Jump.

Best Mini Bags: Designer Mini Bags That Hold Something

The mini bags that actually hold something: 40 designer minis from STAUD, Saint Laurent, Roger Vivier and Magda Butrym.

Croc and Snake Effect Bags, Belts and Shoes

The reptile-effect pieces everyone is buying: 40 croc and snake-effect bags, belts and shoes from Khaite, Toteme and Saint Laurent.

Leopard Print Outfits: Leopard Pieces That Look Expensive

The leopard print buys that look expensive: 40 pieces from Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Golden Goose and Toteme.

Slouchy Shoulder Bags: Soft Designer Bags Replacing Structure

The soft, slouchy shoulder bags replacing structure: 40 designer styles from Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Chloé.

Sunglasses Under $500: Frames Sorted By Shape

Sunglasses under $500 are a very good place to be opinionated because the frame, not the logo, determines whether they earn daily wear. I start with the shape that balances the face, then look at the bridge, the arm width and the visual weight of the lens. Square and rectangular

Studio Amelia Shoes

Emily Amelia Inglis founded Studio Amelia in Sydney in 2019 after struggling to find a flat sandal that was neither too relaxed nor too dressy, and deciding to design her own. The debut collection launched with just four sandal styles in four colorways, and was an instant hit

Déhanche

Erin Webb, a California native who had already spent fourteen years in Paris and co-founded the outerwear label Nour Hammour, launched Déhanche in March 2022 with four belt styles. The name is French for the asymmetrical hip tilt seen in ancient Greek statues, and Webb designs each buckle like a piece of jewelry, cast-moulded rather than stamped, made in Italy to a specification she spent a year perfecting.

Jade Ruzzo Jewelry

Jade Ruzzo launched her eponymous fine jewelry line in New York in 2022, after a decade working at Conde Nast titles and as a personal stylist. The specific thing that drives the collection is family: pieces are named for and inspired by her late father Vic, a drummer, and her daughter Gloria, born in 2019, with the Percussion collection built directly around his cymbals and drum motifs.

Rene Barnes Jewelry

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.

Renato Cipullo Jewelry

Renato Cipullo was born in Naples and grew up in Rome in a family of jewelers, later opening a boutique on Ischia in 1967 before settling in New York, where his brother Aldo designed Cartier's Love bracelet. He launched his own jewelry collection in 1974, drawing on years spent by the sea for motifs in shell, coral and gold that still recur in his work.

KATKIM Jewelry

Katherine Kim launched KATKIM in New York in the fall of 2015 after training in graphic design in Pasadena and then jewelry at Central Saint Martins in London and the Fashion Institute of Technology. The brand is built around a single idea she developed at her kitchen table, the Ear Pin, a slim gold spear that threads through the piercing and locks behind the ear, since multiplied into diamond-paved and petite versions.

Ben-Amun

Isaac Manevitz, an Egyptian-born designer who had worked for costume houses like Trifari, started Ben-Amun in New York in 1980, naming it for his eldest son and the pharaoh Tutankhamun. The brand never pretended to be fine jewelry: it built its name on hand-finished pieces in electroplated gold, Czech glass and Majorca pearls, made to photograph and move like the real thing, which is exactly what got a Ben-Amun cuff onto Jackie Kennedy Onassis's wrist in 1989.

Moritz Glik Jewelry

Moritz Glik founded his eponymous jewelry line in New York in 2003, after leaving a shoe company he ran in his native Belo Horizonte, Brazil and teaching himself jewelry-making once he arrived in the city in 1991. His signature invention, the Kaleidoscope Shaker, encases loose, uncut gemstones inside capsules of white sapphire crystal and gold so the stones move freely

Dries Van Noten Shoes

Dries Van Noten launched his first menswear collection in 1986 in Antwerp, showing it in London with five classmates from the Royal Academy who became known as the Antwerp Six. What set him apart from the group was a refusal to chase a single signature look, instead building a reputation on pattern mixing, botanical prints and a stubborn independence from the usual industry calendar.

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