JAMEEL MOHAMMED began a career in design at age 16, interning for Nicole Miller, and Narciso Rodriguez, while still in high school at Phillips Exeter Academy. In 2013 he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to begin a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. When a necklace he designed caught the eye of the COO and Fashion Director of Barneys New York in 2014, he decided to focus on jewelry design, and accepted an internship at the company where he learned the ins and outs of merchandising and retail buying. He founded KHIRY in 2015 after being pointedly told by the CEO of a global luxury goods conglomerate that the only true luxury brands were of European origin. Inspired by the African Diaspora, KHIRY is among the first luxury fashion brands to draw inspiration from outside of the Western world. With KHIRY, Mohammed channels the beauty, art, heritage and culture of the diaspora into modern, luxurious vermeil jewelry, with the ultimate goal of establishing a complete fashion house of accessories, shoes, and ready-to-wear.