Florence Jean is about portals. 

Born of a curious upbringing between the American Midwest and the Caribbean, the jewelry encourages movement and multiplicity, tradition and discovery. Designer Saudia Jones awakens a fresh dimension in the approach to adornment as a trained sculptor and painter. Her jewelry inhabits a new space that seeks activation and inquiry.

The line is named for Jones’ grandmother Florence Jean, whose own history is full of mystique. Craft is highlighted as a method of honoring this connection and venerating the parts of ourselves that are impossible and yet to be revealed. Clasps hold personal intimacies of history, lineage and connection so that in whirlwinds of discovery the wearer belongs first and foremost to themself. Earth, Touch and Memory dance with precision in jewelry that is made to shift gracefully with wear and time… 

…like a trusted route between homelands, or a grandmother beloved.



-Written by Savannah Lyons Anthony