Maria Francesca Pepe did not start out as a jewelry designer. “It’s not like I began making jewelry and then decided I could do clothes,” explains the designer, who will make her London fashion week debut at the Fashion East show on Tuesday. “I got my degree in womenswear. I just felt like jewelry was [...]

Since her graduation in 2007 from Central Saint Martins, a.k.a. the world’s finest fashion talent factory, Maria Francesca Pepe has inaugurated an eponymous line of jewelry that blurs the line between clothing and accessories. Her Fall 2008 lookbook features Br-”It” girl Alice Dellal in a series of seductive necklaces that play off handbag silhouettes. The [...]