Katarina Tarazi

Katarina Tarazi took the 2023 Fashion Trust Arabia jewelry prize for work that reads as wearable architecture. The pieces feel sculptural rather than ornamental — closer to small objects than to traditional fine jewelry — and the Beirut atelier produces them in small runs with the kind of finish the FTA jury was meant to recognize.

Her practice is one of the stronger emerging voices in the Lebanese jewelry tier, which is itself dense; Tarazi's distinguishing fact is the sculptural register.