Born to a French-Mexican family, Colette Steckel of Colette Jewelry in Mexico City is inspired by the elements—think bugs, planets, and the like—and tries to make jewelry “as art and fashion that is edgy,” she tells JCK.

She started designing jewelry in her teenage years, and even developed a line of stone accessories that a local store owner began exporting and wholesaling for her, with some of the pieces eventually ending up on runway models in Paris.

Steckel launched her business in Mexico in 1999, and brought it to the United States in 2007. She studied graphic design at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico, and earned her graduated gemology degree from the Gemological Institute of America. She is represented by Fragments in New York City.

“Jewelry to me is an art form and different collections that I have created are inspired by very different things that I have seen and experienced,” she says. “Jewelry is all about expressing femininity in different ways and for different occasions in a format that is timeless.”

Editor’s Note: Steckel is being profiled for her contemporary interpretations of common objects. For example, I loved her giant bug necklace for its unexpected diamond-covered wings, and adore her blackened moon motifs (see slideshow) with moonstones for their play on the colors of outer space. Her color choices blend and/or pop beautifully with whatever theme she’s working with, and every piece she makes has some memorable detail that lingers in the mind long after the piece is out of view.

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