Who is Aurora James? If you don’t recognise the name, commit it to memory now. Aurora – named after Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – is a Toronto Native, living in Brooklyn with a New York-based, (CFDA Award winning) sustainable accessories brand that creates artisanal jobs in Africa – which is loved by everyone from Kanye West to Anna Wintour BTW. Impressed? Yes, we are too.

When she’s not designing from her treehouse in Kenya, gathering embroideries from the valleys of Ethiopia, carved bone samples from Nairobi or grass tassels from Haiti, she’s playing Scrabble in her Bedford–Stuyvesant apartment. An apartment filled with flea-market and world-travel finds. An apartment we all want to live in…