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The Black Designers Shaking Up the Fine-Jewelry World
Jameel Mohammed was a fresh-faced 19-year-old student when he started making jewelry.
Between spending his school year at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his summers hustling from internship to internship in New York, Mohammed started to conceptualize a luxury brand with Black identity at the forefront.
“The initial idea was brass because Jennifer Fisher was all the rage,” says Mohammed.
“But I wanted to have this luxury brand proposition, where it wasn’t regarded as just a fun thing to consume and forget.
Khairy, K., & Howard, J. ().This was gonna be a luxury brand that’s all Black all the time.”
That’s how he landed on Khiry, which launched in 2016. The brand’s designs feel more like an abstraction of African history than just pretty shapes rendered in glossy metal.
Cultural references are baked into each of his creations—like Khiry’s signature Khartoum silhouette, a tapered, curved design that alludes to the shape of cattle hor