Valuables: Juliana Salazar Is Right here to Put You Onto Brooches

Meet Juliana Salazar— inventive director, stylist, model strategist and tastemaker. Her resume is stacked with numerous tasks from styling for manufacturers like Comme Si and Aimé Leon Dore to collaborating with Nike to carry the Nike Type Lounge™️ NYC to life, working with Ganni to ascertain their U.S. presence, conceptualizing the “Play RA” procuring expertise for jewellery model Roxanne Assoulin, and most not too long ago partnering with Kimaï on a lab-grown tennis bracelet—it is no shock that manufacturers faucet Salazar for concepts.

The temper boards she curates on Substack really feel like present-day Tumblr, and the inventive inspiration she shares on-line places followers onto her style in structure, music, design, and magnificence; take for instance, these crystal-studded Crocs she wore (pre-Simone Rocha Crocs). She has a selective eye, and her style in jewellery is not any completely different, particularly in the case of colourful, candy-like jewellery— a pattern she was recognized for popularizing.

Within the midst of a transfer from Los Angeles to London, Salazar takes our name from her hometown of Miami, the place she helps with the branding for good friend’s retailer known as Grove Grocer, a enterprise near her coronary heart. “Proper now I am very centered on taking up tasks that I’m actually keen about and that I actually really feel linked to in a roundabout way.” she says about new tasks breaching into the approach to life and hospitality industries, “My work and life are so intertwined, they’re by no means not going to be, so I believe it is simply essential to have a great time whereas I am working.”

We chat a few humorous connection— my good friend and trend editor at GQ, now lives within the precise house she as soon as lived in New York in 2021 whereas working as a contract stylist and Social Media Director at Hirshliefers (Lori Hirshliefer being not solely her earlier boss, but additionally a current topic of this very Vogue’s Valuables collection!). “Does it nonetheless have the checkered flooring?” she asks in regards to the house, “I put these in!”

After talking in size about jewellery, it is clear she’s passionate in regards to the topic. We discuss jewellery as a vessel for extraordinary garments to look non-slobbish, the flexibility of a extremely good brooch as a jacket pin or a pendant, the battle of gatekeeping, and the way colourful jewels can truly perform as an every-day impartial. Right here, we delve deeper into Salazar’s jewellery fashion and private assortment as she provides Vogue a glimpse into her style.

Vogue: How does jewellery play into your on a regular basis life?
It is humorous as a result of I believe I am fairly low upkeep in that I do not swap out my jewellery, I all the time put on the identical factor. I really feel like for most individuals my on a regular basis jewellery isn’t low upkeep, I assume. I put on these little crystal earrings [Salazar points to a pair Completedworks earrings] even once I’m understanding.