Bloomingdales next for Lotta Djossou

Lotta Djossou jewelry, based in Paris and the small town of Höör in southern Sweden, has grown explosively around the world since it got started in Japan in the mid-1990s. Bloomingdales, the legendary American department store chain, will soon be carrying the jewelry.

“Anthropologie is also interested,” Lotta explained on Thursday when our paths crossed in Stockholm.

I first discovered Lotta Djossou’s handmade jewelry a few months ago, when I visited her flagship store in Malmö, in the company of a Washington Post colleague named Anthony. The store has a gothic ambience, a kind of magical Harry Potter-ish feeling which suits the intricate silver and bronze bracelets, rings and necklaces. Some of the pieces have the form of bats, owls and insects like dragonflies and beetles.
Photos: Alexander Farnsworth