A Peace Treaty is an evolving fashion jewellery collection that is ethically produced, has social responsibility and yet remains of the moment. This socio-aware fashion jewelry collection is available exclusively at Kabiri.

Each season, Farah Malik and Dana Arbib travel to a particular region facing socio-political strife, and employ local village artisans to re-define an accessory, creating limited edition pieces and collections. Amulets and talismans in varying geometric shapes make an appearance in the form of pendants and earrings, as well as a selection of stackable and two-finger rings in this current jewellery collection. This particular collection at Kabiri the designers have worked with Afghan women who live in remote tribes.

Kabiri: Where is your jewelry collection made?

A Peace Treaty : Turkey – APT has set up projects for artisans and rejuvenated at-risk businesses in many towns and villages. Their approach is very much a community empowerment one — elevating traditional handcraft skills; valorizing artisans that in recent years in many contexts have been overlooked or have been receiving less and less attention as more industrialization is starting to replace age-old specialized-skill requiring production techniques. APT also aim to bring to light skills and techniques from places that might have suffered due to a result of trade restrictions and embargoes.

K: Does the jewelry collection include traditional motifs and methods as well as those created by the designer?

APT: Usually with each region that A Peace Treaty set up production projects in, they try to find an aesthetic inspiration that connects to the country’s own ornamental heritage and antique and traditional artisanal trades (often trades that are dying out because of industrialization and competition with factory-based manufacturing). With SUNARI, APT focused on Kuchi nomadic tribes and Turkomen tribes of Central Asia. Amulets and ceremonial jewelry as well as the visual iconography that surrounded the tribes was researched for months. APT were fascinated by the hand-carved, yet slightly irregular geometric patterns in the jewelry they found. Then these traditional jewelry aesthetics were modernized slightly, through colors, materials, scale and layout.

K: Do you donate any proceeds to charity?

APT: Each season A Peace Treaty donate 10% to Counterpart International – which has programmes in all of the regions that A Peace Treaty produce in. Funds from the jewelry collection directed towards reconstruction projects and women’s rights efforts in Afghanistan. In addition, built into APT’s production model is a philanthropic component. They create income generation projects for disadvantaged groups including unemployed artisans or widowed and disabled women. APT pay fair trade rates and employ artisans who have been unemployed for years because they could not keep up with the pressure of factory-based manufacturing.

So not only is this a great fashion forward jewelry collection, buying a piece is also helping out women in different countries. Fashion that does good for the world!