Maria Black

Why it is renowned

The British magazine SUITCASE profiled Maria Black in 2017 as a young Danish designer whose jewellery had been worn by Alexa Chung and the Kardashians, and named Net-a-Porter, Liberty and Browns among its stockists.¹ In 2019 the New Zealand magazine Fashion Quarterly called it one of the earlier Scandinavian accessory labels taken up by fashion insiders and celebrities, when Superette began stocking it in New Zealand.² The house now sells in more than 30 markets, with its own shops in Berlin, Tokyo and Oslo as well as Copenhagen and Aarhus.³

The story

Maria Black trained as a goldsmith through a four-year apprenticeship in Denmark and sold her first pieces at weekend markets in London during her final year.² She started the house under her own name in Copenhagen in 2010.³ Its jewellery is made in recycled sterling silver and 14 carat gold, with lab-grown diamonds in place of mined ones, and its shops also pierce ears.³

What to know it by

• Piercings³Maria BlackPiercing jewellery and piercing in its shops
• Sculptural jewellery³Maria BlackJewellery in recycled silver and 14 carat gold