Okay Fine at The Foyer

Scrolling through Okay Fine’s profile, I imagine her curation process less like styling and more like casting a play. Or maybe assembling a puppet theater, each piece a distinct character with its own backstory.

Today I’m welcoming to The Foyer one of the jewelry content creators I most enjoy following: dear Kylie of @okay______fine. She works through Instagram and TikTok, behind a semi-anonymous handle that only adds to the allure.

Her content is the jewelry she loves, gathers, layers, and rearranges. There’s no single theme, only the consistency of her taste, which makes it feel all the more intimate. It’s soft, strange, and pretty. And it all coheres.

Her collaborations carry that same clarity. A limited-edition Bead & Round Box chain with J. Hannah. A peridot pendulum charm with Madeline Jewelry. Capsule edits with At Present. A snake charm with Rebel Jewelry. The list goes on.

She generously made time for a call, and what followed was a conversation that unfolded like this:

1. Ísis: Jewelry has a way of marking moments. Is there a particular jewelry-related memory that shaped your love for it?

Okay Fine: My grandma’s oversized dolphin door-knocker earrings. My mom’s collection of articulated mid-century charms that she kept locked away but would let me sift through. Getting lost in the accessories aisle as a kid, strumming the chains of the necklace displays at Claire’s… I loved how they all danced together like a murmuration of starlings. Poetic!

My collection is shaped by memories like these, especially because I have a jewelry-loving mother who taught me the ins and outs of mourning hair, poison rings, and the importance of patina. I’ve always been a charm girl. I know some people see it as a trend, but for me, it’s a lifelong affair. I started out collecting little enameled silver charms from the mall, which evolved into the chunky, five-pound Juicy Couture bracelets… and eventually, my grandma’s charm necklace.

It was only natural that, once I could fund it, I started building my treasure trove.

My mom’s collection of vintage charms:

My Halloween charm necklace:

2. Ísis: Are there any jewelry-making techniques that you find particularly mesmerizing?

Okay Fine: I just bought a book about hinges and boxes, those are kind of my main obsession. Jewelry boxes and displays are probably the reason I got into jewelry in the first place. And lockets, too…they’re box-adjacent!

Any piece with a fastening hinge or a satisfying click draws me in. I love the engineering of it. I’d love to see more designs where hinges aren’t just functional but decorative—where the hinge is the focal point. Like James Banks’ butterflies, where the wings move from a central hinge body—exquisite. I also just launched a collaboration with M. Hisae that kind of plays with that idea of a non-functional decorative hinge in the bale. Those are called Tablets! We’re very excited about them.

Some of my lockets and one of my favorite jewelry boxes that I made myself:

3. Ísis: When selecting or recommending jewelry, what are the traits that make you fall in love with a piece?

Okay Fine: For myself? It’s a gut feeling. Always a solid hunk of gold, swinging from a chain, no stones—so it can be lovingly beaten up and rubbed throughout the day.

For a friend looking for a birthday gift for their girlfriend? I need the full brief. Budget, activity level, hobbies, work lifestyle… all of it.

4. Ísis: There’s a tenderness in how you capture jewelry—your content feels like a conversation between friends. Is there anyone you'd like to sit down with to talk about jewelry? Or maybe someone whose jewelry box you wanted to see?

Okay Fine: This is the highest compliment I can receive, so thank you. I really prioritize keeping my tone true to how I actually speak and not like an… advertisement.

If I had the time, honestly, I’d never turn down the chance to go through someone’s personal collection, especially people who aren’t in the jewelry world. The Telegraph London has an incredible series on jewelry designers’ collections, and the stories behind each piece—big or small—always help paint a fuller picture of their creative lives.

5. Ísis: Are there any materials you’d love to see more of in jewelry—something unusual or underrated?

Okay Fine: Maybe quartz? Glass? Ceramics? Magnets???

6. Ísis: In your own collection, which stones and colors feel the most like you? Have your tastes changed over time, or have you always been drawn to them?

Okay Fine: Oh, if I’m anything, I’m consistent.

Here’s a too-long anecdote: When I was little, I was obsessed with Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, where the Olsen twins spend the entire movie getting into shenanigans to defeat their evil witch aunt, played perfectly by Cloris Leachman. Her powers come from a mystical green gem she wears around her neck—referred to ominously as a Mooooooooonstoooone. I needed it.

So, I stole a gemstone book from my elementary school library to figure out what this mystical green rock was. Low and behold: moonstones aren’t green. But peridots are!

I love remembering this because one of the first pieces of fine jewelry I bought as an adult was a vintage Tiffany dome ring with a lime-green peridot cabochon. It looks exactly like the evil green witch "moonstone."

It’s still one of my favorite stones; moody, fresh, glowing. Works so well in a cabochon shape. (And don’t worry, I also fell in love with actual moonstones once I learned what they really looked like. Adularescence is my favorite word.)

Aside from that, I have to shout out my boy Carnelian! Regal, rich, vibrant, fiery. Feels like it suits my personality. My most me piece is a stone locket from Ursa Major with inlaid carnelian and onyx. Mysterious, hinged, and glows when the sun hits it just right.

Oh! Also Yves Klein blue. In clothing, furniture, life. Especially when enameled atop buttery yellow gold. Lapis scratches that itch too.

7. Ísis: How do you balance the thrill of discovering jewelry online with the experience of seeing it in person?

Okay Fine: They’re completely different experiences, and I think both are important.

Online, you get angles, perspectives, creative approaches that enlarge tiny details you might miss in person. But physically feeling a piece is just as important as seeing it.

That’s why I make a point to seek out IRL jewelry experiences. The algorithm can only serve you so much. At antique and vintage shows in the city, I get to chat with dealers I’ve been visiting for years. That kind of conversation? You can’t always replicate it in DMs.

8. Ísis: And if you had a completely free afternoon to spend anywhere jewelry-related, where would you go?

Okay Fine: I’d definitely need more than an afternoon…and extremely comfortable footwear. But if I could, I’d recreate my 2022 London trip. Wake up at the crack of dawn, head to Portobello Road, sift through antiques with the dealers… and then magically not be exhausted and spend way too long at the V&A.