Vogue - American Edition, October 2007

Laws of Abstraction

“In one half an hour, Alexandra Jefford uses the word weird in reference to her work a total of eleven times. Take her description of the first gold piece she ever made: “It’s sort of a weird white gold ring, but it’s not round; it’s square with these two tubes overlapping each other with diamonds at the end, and a pearl with gold wire wrapped all around it. I mean, it looks a bit weird, but anyways,” she says with a laugh.

For certain, Jefford’s pieces are peculiar but whimsically, beautifully so. Her background in sculpture and drawing is evident in the architectural compositions of her rings and pendants, and in the texture of the leaves she designs for her namesake collection. This fall she’s made exclusive pieces for Maxfield in Los Angeles, some with gems carved to look like African and Incan masks. Like her stones, everything has an organic aesthetic.

“I love oddities of nature: Sapphires with hexagonal shapes in them, Lavender Tourmaline — things that are unusual occurances,” says Jefford. “I’m not confined to anything.”

By Jane Herman