Kingsley Kouture is a Retro Jewellery, Accessory and Clothing brand based in Nottingham. The Owner Victoria originally started out making skirts for herself, like many of us she found through life, illness and loss her weight would fluctuate. After the loss of her brother to suicide she gained more weight and wanting to make something meaningful and positive from her experience, she worked out a way to make skirts that could fit from a size 10 up to 28. She began by making for family and friends and then moved on to selling at conventions and craft fayres.

Now expanding her business, Kingsley Kouture have began creating quirky Jewellery, which she sells online and stocks at The Arcade Treasure Chest in Nottinghamshire. She later hopes to add men's shirts and to make a large variety of size inclusive clothing at an affordable price. Kingsley Kouture is not just a business, it is full of heart. Victoria has taken the ups and downs of life we can all relate to and made them into hope. She has used her grief of losing her brother into a message of support for others that suffer and she hopes to one day release a line of jewellery to raise awareness of suicide and to donate the profits to a charity in the name of her brother. 

Kingsley Kouture was kind enough to send me six earring and brooch sets, each one unique, fun and colourful. There was a Strawberry, Daisy, Lime, Octopus, Poodle and Shamrock designs. Each one was well made, with beautiful colours most including glitter, which is always a plus to me. They were all studded earrings with secure backs and the brooches were easy and sturdy to attach. I love how inventive the drops are on some of them, with the stalks being the attached area leading to the fruit dropping for example, this was really different than other novelty jewellery I have had and it really delighted me.