“The story I was given by my mother is that the family had just recently moved from Pennsylvania back to LA (where my mother was born and mostly raised) and my grandmother was feeling cramped, like a sardine in a can. So being the quite unique person that she was, she commissioned this 14k and diamond sardine pendant. Because why not?

She passed several months ago and my mom didn’t know what to do with this, and I said, ’Give it me, I’ll wear it.’ I think it’s fantastically weird.”