From earrings to bracelets, the Toronto-based company is rethinking luxury. Mejuri is on a mission to redefine jewellery. The brand’s CEO and co-founder, Noura Sakkijha, has been around jewellery her whole life. While living in Jordan with her family, Sakkijha’s father worked multiple hours per week as a jeweller. He followed in his father’s footsteps. Sakkijha wouldn’t enter the jewellery space until 2015. She studied industrial engineering at the University of Jordan before pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She also worked full-time at CIBC before launching Mejuri. She believes that working a corporate job helped her gain the experience necessary to transition into running…

The actress and businesswoman uses her brand to celebrate Black beauty. Daughter of the powerhouse singer Diana Ross, Tracee Ellis Ross has made a name for herself in the acting world. She’s acted in main roles in successful series like Girlfriends and Black-ish. In 2019, she became a businesswoman when she launched her product line, Pattern Beauty. Ellis Ross has said she’s been building this brand since her days in Girlfriends.  Let’s be clear: neither hair products nor curly hair-specific products are new (the term curly is being used as an umbrella term for all curly, coily and tightly textured hair). Ellis Ross’ sense of innovation is what makes her…