NEZALEZHNI: TOP-6 Ukrainian jewelry brands you need to know about

Aug 23, 2021

Ruslana Tsinkovskaya

We want to wear Ukrainian without taking it off.

And it's not just about clothes now. The years of independence have given our country many jewelry brands with beautiful shapes but also deep meaning.
Read about 6 Ukrainian jewelry manufacturers. Spoiler: it will be beautiful.

SOVA

 

The brand appeared on the jewelry market of Ukraine in 2000. The rebranding of SOVA took place in 2013. The brand conveys to consumers that gold jewelry is not just for special occasions. People can wear diamonds every day, and women of all ages can wear pearls as well. The brand was one of the first in Ukraine to start producing jewelry with collections and combining products into a common history. Every year SOVA releases four seasonal collections. In addition, the brand makes capsule collections dedicated to Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. The brand created 37 collections at its production facility located in Kyiv. It produces about 17,000 pieces of jewelry every month. Jewelers work with all types of gold - yellow, white, and pink. The masters of the brand experiment with different kinds of metal processing and work in the technique of diamond faceting. SOVA forms a new look at jewelry with various inserts, using long-known materials - malachite, mother-of-pearl, ceramics.

SOVA jewelry has repeatedly appeared in such publications as Elle, Vogue, Buro24 / 7, Marie Claire, Vlob, and Cosmopolitan.

The brand pays great attention to collaborations. It constantly collaborates with famous artists of Ukraine - the frontwoman of the band "The HARDKISS" Julia Sanina, designers FROLOV, LITKOVSKAYA, brands LAKE Studio, and Marsala. You can buy the brand's jewelry in 37 stores in 17 regions of Ukraine.

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Guzema Jewelry

 

The brand appeared in 2016. Its founder is journalist and producer Valery Guzema. The following year, Guzema Jewelry received the award in the nomination "Best Start-up" from the Elle Style Awards, and in 2018 Valery was nominated for the award "Best Accessory Designer" at the Best Fashion Awards. In the same year, she presented her jewelry at LA Fashion week. The brand makes accessories by hand from silver, white and yellow gold. There are also products made of artificial suede. During five years, Guzema Jewelry released 32 collections and cooperated with many famous Ukrainian stars and brands. The brand collaborated with Monatic, Kateryna Kuhar, Gunia Project. You can get acquainted with the decorations in the flagship showroom in Kyiv, in the Central Department Store, and multi-brand shops in Lviv and Zaporizhia, and even in the Canadian market. Guzema Jewelry conveys the idea of ​​uniqueness and uniqueness of each woman and urges to remain yourself and not try to look like someone. The brand motto is to feel and to be special. Many famous people like Guzema jewelry. For example, Masha Efrosinina, Jamala, Tina Karol, Nadia Dorofeeva, Kateryna Osadcha, Babkiny family, Natalia Vodianova wear brand accessories. The brand pays attention to charity. One of the most important Guzema Jewelry was Charity Chain, created together with Masha Efrosinina. The brand donated all funds received for the necklace to the charity fund "Your Support," which saves children's hearts. Guzema Jewelry has already transferred UAH 4,698,150 to the fund's account/ This sum allowed operating 80 children.

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Kochut

 

Yuri, Roman, and Igor Kochuta decided to found the brand in 2013 in Uzhgorod. First, they worked in a small workshop at home. In 2015, a jewelry workshop appeared. Kochut manufactures handmade jewelry from gold, silver, various metals, and precious stones. The first piece of jewelry for sale was a knight's necklace made of silver eagles. In 2017 the brand opened the first jewelry showroom in Uzhgorod. Kochut jewelry is about character and life. It complements and reveals the personality. The brand makes each piece of jewelry in one workshop - starting from the idea and ending with the application of decorative coatings. Most jewelry is created entirely by hand, so many products cannot be replicated in an exact copy. In 2016, the brand received the ProBrand award in the nomination "Best Jewelry," and in 2018 their jewelry "Bird on a twig" went to the Museum of Historical Treasures in Kyiv. Kochut jewelry is quite popular abroad. You can buy it offline in Austria, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, and London. The brand has two offline stores in Ukraine - in Uzhgorod and Kyiv.

Supporters of the brand are the founder of the music group "ONUKA" Nata Zhyzhchenko, members of "Time and Glass," "NeAngely," "Tristavisim," "Shadow of the Sun," as well as Belarusian ethnic groups.

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Côte&Jeunot

 

The brand appeared in 2013. Its founder was designer Elena Yastreb, who wanted to find something for herself but could not. So she decided to create it herself. Côte&Jeunot jewelry is suitable for stylish creative girls who want to wear something special and not boring. It emphasizes the features of a person and shows inner charm. The brand's range includes stylish products for everyday and gold and silver wedding rings. It mainly works with recycled 905 silver and 14K gold. There are paired products in one color and also with a combination of two and three shades. All jewelry is made by hand in Kyiv and Kharkiv. You can get acquainted with Côte&Jeunot products in two showrooms in Kyiv and partner stores in Kharkiv and Odesa. In addition, jewelry is represented in European and Asian stores. Many Ukrainian stars, including Ksenia Mishina, Masha Efrosinina, and Alina Pash, wears Côte&Jeunot accessories.

The brand supports charitable foundations to help animals and transfers part of the profits from its sales to these organizations. Together with Happy Paw Cote&Jeunot created a joint project in which one cat is sterilized for each purchase of a special pendant.

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ZARINA

 

Founded in 1998 the brand became the first diamond jewelry brand of independent Ukraine. Its founder, Natalia Netovkina, aimed to reveal the values ​​and potential of every woman.

ZARINA has become not only a jewelry house but also a powerful platform for uniting active women.

Today the brand has five subbrands: YOU, STORY, CREATIVE, JEWEL, FINE, which differ in content and values. ZARINA collaborates with strong women, including Yanina Sokolova, Olga Freimut, Solomiya Vitvytska, Maryna Leonchuk, and Alina Pash. All jewelry is made of red, yellow, and white gold, as well as silver. In addition to jewelry, the brand offers a variety of accessories - brooches, pins, cufflinks, etc. The brand constantly cooperates with Ukrainian and foreign designers - German Manuel Wolf, Roman Bayand, Elena Pidtopa. You can find jewelry houses in 20 boutiques throughout Ukraine. Shops are present in such cities as Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Lutsk, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi.

ZARINA pays great attention to social projects aimed at transforming Ukraine into a country of happy women.

Together with the NGO "Ukrainian Business Women," the brand conducts various activities to help vulnerable children, women, and the elderly. ZARINA also collaborates with Yanina Sokolova and the #Worthy Foundation, which helps people with cancer.

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Золотий Вік

The history of the brand began in 1999. Since then, it took a leading position in the jewelry market of Ukraine and became one of the largest manufacturers of jewelry in our country. The purpose of the "Golden Age" is the revival of true jewelry. The brand creates products that help to express their feelings to the people closest to them. All jewelry is made at the plant "Golden Age" in Zaporizhzhia. The brand uses for work gold of three colors: red, white, lemon (585 and 375 tests), and also silver of 925 tests. The quality of the products is confirmed by the International Prize "European Quality" and the Diploma of the National Competition "Highest Test." In 2009, the Golden Age became the brand of the year. In 2013 it won the International Festival-Competition "Choice of the Year" in the nomination "Jewelry Store Network of the Year." The brand creates collections in a single style and offers both women's and men's jewelry. In 2018, as part of the National Retail Awards of Ukraine, it became the winner of the nomination "Jewelry Network."  In 2019 it won the nomination "Retailer of the Year in Jewelry" according to the Ukrainian Retail Association. Also, "Golden Age" became the winner of the nomination "E-commerce-retailer in jewelry" RAU Awards in 2020. The brand constantly collaborates with famous stars. In 2021, Nastya Kamenskykh became the ambassador of the brand. You can buy Golden Age jewelry in more than 500 stores in all regions of Ukraine.

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