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Known for her refined Afro-modernist jewelry, the Nigerian-British designer Lola Fenhirst launched a new capsule that signalled a fresh direction, from a Paris rooftop. Months in development, the Indigo Pit ring references the Kofar Mata dye pits in northern Nigeria, established in the 16th century to produce indigo cloth created using natural ingredients for the Tuareg people. Across West Africa, indigo is a color of protection, and Fenhirst carefully matched aluminium to the deep indigo of lapis lazuli ringed with yellow diamonds, in a modern-day talisman, made in Paris.