i’ve covered this ground before, but the new ysl leather gem earrings convinced me it’s a good time to revisit.  leather jewelry, or leather wrapped jewelry is not very google-able.  you end up with a lot of not so cute tribal stuff and weirdness.  but there are a couple of standbys that you can always count on.  those would be, of course annie costello brown and natalia brilli.  they never cease to amaze.  choosing one piece from each is hard, because i would pretty much kill for everything from both of them.  house of harlow is kind of hard for me to wrap my head around.  i really like the two pieces pictured here, and pretty much the whole line.  i’m never entirely sure what my opinion is of nicole richie, but it’s a little hard to picture her as a “jewelry designer.”  but the art deco with an edge vibe seems pretty unique, and works for me.  and wendy nichol’s gold and leather hoops are a simple and great take on a classic.