When one of your necklaces is featured on Tim Gunn's Guide to Style as one of Tim's Essentials, you're done — in a good way. That's just what happened to Jenifer Balducci, the San Francisco-based designer who created the necklace at left as part of her JBalducci Jewelry collection.
She started out designing high-end jewelry and custom pieces in LA, but eventually moved into her Bay Area studio, where JBalducci was born in 2003.