Jude Benhalim’s New Capsule Collection Puts You in the Designer’s Seat

Jude Benhalim has always treated jewellery as something closer to an object than an accessory. Now, the Egyptian designer is making that object a little more open-ended. Her new Capsule Collection, a pre-fall extension of Tales in Motion, takes the sculptural forms of the previous collection and translates them into smaller pieces designed to be mixed, matched and rearranged.

At the centre of the collection is the Pendant Studio, which lets wearers select their pendant, plating, chain and cord before putting their own combination together. Rather than presenting a finished formula, the collection offers a series of components that can shift between understated and more expressive styling.

“The Capsule Collection felt like a natural continuation of Tales in Motion,” Benhalim says. “That collection was very much about movement, transformation and pieces that change depending on how they’re worn. With the Pendant Studio, we wanted to take that idea further and give the wearer more freedom to create their own version of the piece.”

That sense of participation has long been part of the Jude Benhalim universe. Founded in 2011 by Benhalim alongside her mother and co-designer Rana Elazm, the brand has built its identity around architectural forms, abstract shapes and interchangeable designs. The Capsule Collection brings that approach into a smaller scale, with each pendant designed to hold its own while still playing well with the others.

“Our work has always been very sculptural, but here we were thinking about form in a smaller, more modular way,” Benhalim explains. “Each pendant needed to feel strong enough to stand alone, but also work alongside other shapes, materials and finishes. It allowed us to translate our design language into something more playful and interchangeable.”

Material is doing plenty of the talking, too. The collection brings together resin and brass, finished in 21k gold-plating or rhodium-plating. The cloudy, dimensional quality of the resin sits against polished metal, while selected pieces are finished with tassels made from semi-precious stones including brown tourmaline and blue apatite. The result keeps the collection recognisably sculptural, but introduces more colour, texture and variation from piece to piece.

Benhalim has been working with resin throughout the brand’s evolution, making its unpredictability part of the appeal rather than something to smooth over. Here, that quality becomes especially interesting when combined with the different chains, cords and metal finishes.

“I really enjoyed the contrast between the cloudy resin and the metal, especially when you start mixing gold and silver finishes,” Benhalim says. “Resin has been part of our language for a long time, and I love that no two pieces ever feel completely identical. Bringing that together with different chains and cords gave us a lot of room to experiment.”

It also means the collection can change without requiring an entirely new piece. A pendant can be worn alone one day, layered the next, or stripped back and placed on a cord instead. For a brand whose designs have always blurred the line between jewellery and sculpture, the Capsule Collection takes that idea and makes it more personal.

“I hope they feel free to make it their own,” Benhalim says. “There’s no right combination and no one way to wear the pieces. You can keep it very simple one day, layer it the next, change the cord or mix finishes. I like the idea that the jewellery can keep changing with you rather than always being worn in the same way.”