They were on the DA’s desk last night. This morning, the entire team denies having seen them. Kitesy Martin Studio designs sculptural jewelry in Paris—meant to be layered, mismatched, and, if certain colleagues are to be believed, borrowed for an entirely indefinite period.
Two Kitesy earrings, sitting next to a cold coffee and a copy of Vogue. This morning, they vanished. The intern saw nothing. The project manager, even less. As for the writer, she suddenly decides that working with her hair down suits her beautifully.
Clearly, there is a very thin line between "I love your earrings" and "I'm borrowing them."
Kitesy Martin would probably have loved the idea. A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris with stints at Balenciaga, Balmain, and Lacoste, the designer founded Kitesy Martin Studio in 2018, bringing a vision of jewelry that plays fast and loose with established rules.
In her world, gold and silver mix, earcuffs stack, earrings mismatch, and the goal is less about the perfect combination and more about the one no one else would have dreamed of. It is an approach inherited from her mother, whom she watched pair fine jewelry with costume pieces.
The result? Sculptural jewelry bold enough to turn the white shirt you've worn three Mondays in a row into a "new look," and coveted enough to have drawn Patou, Ganni, Nike, and Le Tanneur for collaborations.
But back to our colleagues.
At 12:47 PM, over lunch, the writer finally ties her hair back.
Et voilà! The earrings reappear.
