Origin: 2011, Toronto, Canada

Founder: Maryam Keyhani

Fields : Accessories

Biography:

Keyhani had no formal jewellery training, which means everything she learned to do, she learned to do her way, without rules or limitations. Besides, she has a world of lived-in dreams from which to draw.

It was in Florence, where she spent a year as an art student, that she grew a deep love for hand-crafted, thoughtful luxury.

In Berlin, she plucked the most gorgeously coloured feathers from a flea market.

In Paris, she studied fashion illustration and saw, every day in Le Marais or along the canals, the sort of insouciantly elegant femmes she wanted to paint–and design for–always.

Style:

Maryam Keyhani’s necklaces are self-titled works of art. No, literally: the Tehran-born, Toronto-raised designer was a painter first, brushing her feathered flights of fancy onto the canvas necks of imaginary women. Soon, like Pygmalion, she fell in love with her creations and wanted to give them life; to make them real.

Fall/Winter 11 Collection:

As a sculptor, Maryam Keyhani’s ideas were only limited by the materials she worked with… as a jewellery designer, her namesake neck adornments, take on all manner of graceful form and function. The only limits to the collection that is Fall.Winter11 being what Keyhani has found in the way of feathers, fabrics and materials of distinction.
Using leather, chains and feathers Keyhani has produced a series of weightless neck-pieces, each with their own distinctive story. Dainty yet opulent statement accessories, Keyhani manipulates materials into sculptural shapes that are technically made to be light and functional, however involved they may look. Rolled leather repetition detail, feather cuts in dusty pink, nude and black, fanned leather breast plates and rose gold chains make up each design, with some pieces taking days to produce.

Each part of the collection is named after a mythology goddess, in celebration of classic feminine beauty and timeless sophistication that only comes with distinctive design that surpasses seasonal limitations.