Our fruit earrings are tiny raffia fruit, each one hand-crocheted by Fatima in the Guéliz atelier and hung from a small gold hook. Wear a single piece, against something quiet - white cotton, black Jawhara, gold, hair pulled back - and let the colour speak for you. Playful, never childish.
A small thing that carries Marrakech
YZA grew on a single street in Guéliz, where my family has worked for three generations, a door down from my father's Rotisserie de la Paix. The atelier is run entirely by women, and we work slowly - more hands, fewer machines, less waste, more meaning. A fruit earring weighs almost nothing, yet it holds all of it: the sun, the colour, the hand that knotted it. A postcard from Marrakech you can wear anywhere. ⵣ
Hand-crocheted, not costume
Every fruit is raffia, crocheted stitch by stitch, then hung from a small gold hook and tagged with the name of the woman who made it. The hours are what tell you it is not a trinket: a slice of fruit takes Fatima around two hours, a whole fruit up to five, a cluster of grapes up to six. No two leave her hands the same - a little shift in shape, a little change in the tension, her fingers reading the fibre. Perfectly imperfect.
How to wear them without looking overdone
One fruit at a time - that is my rule. If the colour at your ear is loud, let the bag go quiet: arms bare, or a basket in a tone close to your clothes. And if the rest of you is already still - white cotton, hair pulled back - let the fruit carry the whole mood by itself. The trick is leaving it room to be seen.
A pairing for each fruit
Orange and lemon turn fresh against white - summer, daylight, the souk before the heat arrives. Grapes lean into the evening, beautiful with Black Olive or Deep Violet. Tomatoes have a wink to them next to a Hot Red basket. And cherries are the easy joy - the pair I reach for first when I want to give a gift.
Why we start at the ear
An earring lives close to the face, so it is the first thing anyone truly notices - and, for many women, the first piece of our world they try on. Colour is a culture; craft is a language. A little raffia fruit is the softest way to enter both, long before a bag or a whole look joins the story.
Carry a piece of Marrakech
Carry a piece of Marrakech. Shop the YZA piece in this story, or come to the Guéliz atelier at 66 rue Yougoslavie and watch the raffia take shape in Fatima's hands - we are open 12-8pm, closed Tuesdays.
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FAQ
No - raffia is a natural fibre and barely there, so a pair of fruit rests softly on the ear and you forget it within the hour. The small gold hook holds the weight close and even. Keep them dry and they stay light for years.
Yes - this is exactly where they belong. Keep everything else plain - white cotton, gold, hair pulled back - and let the fruit be the single playful note. Worn that way, they look most at home on a Guéliz afternoon.
Fatima crochets each one by hand: a slice of fruit takes around two hours, a whole fruit up to five, a cluster of grapes up to six. We are not chasing speed - we are chasing intention, stitch by stitch.
