Jewellery designer Yael Salomon has spent more than 20 years in the fashion industry, polishing her tools of the trade by working on a wide range of job scopes, including retail and industrial design. Charmed with a fine aesthetic, she draws her inspirations from the architecture of her hometown of Paris, as well as from her frequent travels.
Currently based in Tel Aviv, she now helms her eponymous line from this city. Pushing boundaries are part of her mantra, and she feels that ‘there are barely any frontiers left in jewellery in terms of where and how to wear it’.
Opening up to British Vogue she said: “I grew up in France, Paris, graduated there and then moved to Israel when I was 18 years old.”
“My uncle, Jacques Konckier, who is in the perfume business, bought Balenciaga in the early Nineties, which back then was a kind of sleeping beauty in the fashion world. At first he relaunched the brand’s perfumes, and then revived the label’s fashion departments, which is where I had my first job. I worked in the art department there.”
She’s setting her sights on some of the most neglected part of the female body, such as the ankle, which she says ‘can be such a sensual part of the woman’s body.’ Check out some of our favourite Yael Salomon pieces in the gallery below.
