SOPHIE BUHAI / SOPHISTICATED PRIMITIVISM

The jewelry designer Sophie Buhai epitomizes the relaxed, understated style that I've come to associate with LA. Earthy well-worn neutrals, timeless tailored silhouettes; a more seasonal approach to dressing that is at once easy as it is edited. Whilst it would be easier to type cast her personal style as minimalist, given her penchant for exacting classics and a less is more ethos – she encompasses a modernist approach, referencing the past in a way that feels extremely current.

An aesthetic that references the work of Mapplethorpe, Georgia O’Keefe as well as African art in what is best coined as “sophisticated primitivism”.

Think of them as pieces your super stylish art gallerist grandmother would pass down to you…cultivated in culture with fashion panache.

Her jewelry reflects the same exacting sensibility – a hybrid of folk art married with architectural precision and unusual proportions, they are bold without the artifice of being showy.