Amina Agueznay

Her work has included jewellery designs and art installations, incorporating elements of Moroccan cultural heritage as well as materials such as textile buttons, paper, rose petals or burned plastic bags.

[4] Having graduated from secondary school in Casablanca, Agueznay studied in the US and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the Catholic University of America, Washington DC, in 1989.

[4] During the "Year of Morocco" cultural events in France in 1999, she presented her first collection of personal jewellery, made of historical silver pieces of the Berber tradition with her own additions.

[6] In 2010, she was one of the laureates of the Maison méditerranéenne des métiers de la mode (MMMM) (Mediterranean Institute for Fashion) in Marseille, and was awarded the Open My Med Prize.

[8] The same year, she created an hommage to the French-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa in the shape of a large collier necklace of red and black strings and metallic elements.

Silver pendant with spiral pattern of traditional Moroccan Berber jewellery , traditional side of a double-use piece
Silver pendant with traditional engraved ornaments in niello technique and contemporary application, modern side of a double-use piece