The shop at The Bamboo Centre, Johannesburg is a collaborative retail space shared between about 21 independent South African designers, selling women's clothing and jewelry from brands including Athena A, BMC Fine Jewellery, Campbell Armoury and Isabel de Villiers.
Best for Independent designer clothing and jewelry
The Instagram profile for JAMAA lists retail locations at Artcaffé Market on Rhapta Road and at Village Market, both in Nairobi. Its story highlights feature brands including SHEKUDO, mille collines, Crystal Birch, BeachCult and Adele Dejak.
Jenna Clifford has designed bespoke jewellery from Johannesburg since 1992, staying a family-run operation that deliberately limits output rather than scaling into mass production. Beyond custom commissions, the studio also remodels inherited pieces into new designs, keeping old stones and sentiment in circulation.
Best for Bespoke jewellery and heirloom remodelling
Mark Whitehorn has run his Johannesburg goldsmith studio since 1988, building repeat clientele on bespoke rings, bangles and signature pieces like the Mini Daisy necklace. The workshop still handles one-off and custom orders alongside its standing collections.
Studio Loubser traces back to 1992 as Liz Loubser Designer Jewellers, merging into its current form in 2017 while staying in Risidale and working in gold, silver, platinum and found objects. The studio takes clients through full bespoke commissions — engagement rings, brooches, one-off pieces — and runs its own jewellery-making classes.
Since 2005, Veronica Anderson Jewellery has showcased handmade work from a rotating group of South African goldsmiths and designers rather than one house style. Its bespoke service also reworks existing jewellery into new pieces, treating old gold and stones as raw material for redesign.
Best for Handmade jewellery from South African designers