Choker Tokyo began on a rainy Tuesday in March 2012. One tiny room on the first floor of a bookshop in Harajuku. One cutting table. One bolt of Lyon velvet we’d carried back in our luggage. And one girl — our founder, Amélie — who had just quit a job at Dior to work at it alone.
By Friday, her first piece — a single ribbon of velvet on an antique brass claw — was on the neck of a stranger at a cafe in Omotesandō. She didn’t know it yet, but Choker Tokyo had a customer.
Fourteen years later, every piece we make still begins at that same cutting table. Nothing is made at scale. Nothing is made in a factory. Nothing leaves our hands without a hand-written note tucked into the box.
We call what we do “slow sweetness.” Pieces that take a week to make and a lifetime to wear. Pieces that feel less like accessories and more like little love letters you can clasp to your neck.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for caring about the details. We’ll never take it for granted.
— with love, the Choker Tokyo team ♡