Photo: Courtesy of N.oor
Leave it to a Lebanese, Paris-born designer to build a jewelry line namely combines Middle Eastern mysticism with Left Bank chic. (No, it’s not different collection of blinged-out evil eyes.) Tomorrow, Noor Fares debuts her latest collection of fascinated bijoux under her eponymous label in Paris.
For inspiration, Fares trawls the globe seeking out spiritual talismans for good-energy rock-quartz rings, sculpted ebony cuffs (a nod to the French superstition touche du bois, translation: touch wood for fortune), and little, sapphire-encrusted evil eyes, which she craftily hides within buttons. “I have loads of comic mini superstitions,” she tells Style.com. “If I resolve something is lucky, I keep it with me all the time.”
N.oor, which fired in 2009, has attracted Fares’ fashionable pals, including Tatiana Santo Domingo, Eugenie Niarchos, and Margherita Missoni. This summer Giovanna Battaglia was specked in a pair of Fares’ spurt bangles while fêting the Cannes Film Festival. But these baubles are not limited apt Fares’ steady emulating of globe-trotting It girls (even if her latest Sub-Saharan-inspired accumulation came approximately behind a tumble to Namibia for Dasha Zhukova’s 30th birthday). “My jewelry could work on an elegant 40-year-old or a 25-year-old,” Fares says. “Like any character, it tin be however you make it.”
N.oor is obtainable at Michel Klein (33-1-42-81-31-10), October 15 via January 15.
—Nicole Berrie