reliquat’s philosophy
Reliquat is a Parisian fine jewelry house, born from the heritage of bygone Parisian glamour — a glamour reinterpreted, reinvented, and redefined by its founder, Yesel Ken-Eli Moukoukenoff, the child of a Russo-Mongol (Kalmyk) and Ivorian double immigration. Through her double heritage and her refusal to conform to conventional norms, the designer never managed to identify with the current image of fashion and glamour. From this fracture emerged Reliquat: a label that fuses refined glamour with unconventional avant-gardism.
Reliquat claims a fleeting, nostalgic soul, standing against an overwhelming modernity, with an avant-garde spirit rising above the emerging skyscrapers of the capital. Reliquat was born from the desire to rekindle a flame, to open a temporal breach, to create a space where the nostalgia of a bygone aesthetic blends with raw urban matter — leading you into a dreamlike journey where time itself seems suspended.
Reliquat redefines the luxury of tomorrow through a non-conventional production process. Each jewel is sculpted using an ancestral Japanese technique, where intuition prevails over rational and codified design, and where free individuality takes precedence over smooth and uniform production. It embodies the will to leave a meaningful trace in a world that accelerates relentlessly, where meaning often fades into cycles of consumption and oblivion. The relic thus becomes a manifesto: a return to slow, ethical, and artisanal creation.Each jewel is conceived as a vestige, a relic imprinted with a gesture, carrying the memory of matter. At the crossroads of jewelry and sculpture, Reliquat shapes pieces that are bold, glamorous, and sensual.
More than a house, Reliquat is a community: a collective of individuals affirming their identity by embracing audacious elegance, unconventional glamour, and a resolutely futuristic vision.