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Jillery Jewelry. Trend setting environmentally friendly jewelry.

Jillery designs began on a whim in a loft in Greenwich Village. Artist Jill Fagin had previously designed jewelry as a hobby in high school and college. In 1987, fresh out of NYU film school, Jill began a career as a stylist in the film industry. The next year her budding film career was interrupted by the screen writer’s strike and Jill revived her hobby by designing and manufacturing jewelry out of her apartment to make ends meet. Her jewelry line was advertised in the simplest of ways – her friends all wore it. A short time later, she and her friends were out on the town and they were spotted and photographed by a reporter for Woman’s Wear Daily. That led to the first of many articles about Jillery. Her designs quickly caught on and Jill began selling to stores and fashionable galleries in the New York area. What began as a hobby soon became a sensation.

Jillery designs combined metals and colors and set a style standard that no other artist of the time could replicate. The thread of Jill’s designs is the use of aluminum throughout every piece. What keeps the work unique is Jill’s unwavering commitment to a “hands-on quality approach to all of her designs and products. Each piece is hand-made by skilled artisans in her Greenwich Village studio. Jill is the originator of this sophisticated, yet whimsical style.

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