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Eugenie Niarchos’s Charmed Life

The granddaughter of a shipping magnate creates a treasure trove all her own.


Eugenie Niarchos
Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo

Twenty-eight-year-old Eugenie Niarchos, who is jewel-like herself, with porcelain skin and glittering eyes, launched her brand, Venyx, in Paris in 2013. The name is a combination of “Venus” and “onyx,” two words that suggest much of what inspires her: antique jewelry, science fiction, nature, and what she refers to as “retro-futurism.” “I had an idea in my head for a crocodile-skin ring,” she says of her initial impetus. “No one had captured that texture the way I knew I could using gold and stones.” The collection—whose statement piece was a necklace with 415 hand-set diamonds—wasn’t Niarchos’s first foray into the world of style. The daughter of Philip Niarchos and Victoria Guinness, and granddaughter of shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, Eugenie had interned at French Vogue and studied fashion marketing in London before her pal Gaia Repossi asked her to collaborate on two lines for Repossi, Gaia’s family’s jewelry house, in 2007. “Fashion has become about mixing and matching, yet in jewelry there was this big gap between old-fashioned and forward-looking designs,” Niarchos says. “We are all about filling that gap.”

Bling Ring

Sabine Ghanem Ghanem wears a Simone Rocha dress and Sabine G. rings, ear cuff, necklace, and bracelets.

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Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo

Bianca Brandolini d’Adda Brandolini d’Adda wears a Giambattista Valli top and Bianca Brandolini for Amsterdam Sauer earrings, necklaces, and ring.

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Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo

Noor Fares Fares wears a Giamba top and Noor Fares earpiece, rings, and necklaces.

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Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo

Eugenie Niarchos Niarchos wears a Valentino jumpsuit and Venyx necklace, rings, and cuffs.

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Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo

Fernando Jorge Petra Palumbo, photographed with Jorge, wears an Alberta Ferretti gown and Fernando Jorge earrings and rings.

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Hair by Mari Ohashi at LGA Management; makeup by Lucy Burt for Mac; manicures by Pebbles for Ciate. Digital technician: Rebecca Lievre. Photography assistant: Virgile Biechy.

Photographs: Katja Rahlwes Stylist: Gianluca Longo
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Hair by Mari Ohashi at LGA Management; makeup by Lucy Burt for Mac; manicures by Pebbles for Ciate. Digital technician: Rebecca Lievre. Photography assistant: Virgile Biechy.