Mignon Faget

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Mignon Faget is a jewelry designer based in her native New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family settled in the city in the 1700s. The painter Jacqueline Humphries is her daughter.

“Every New Orleans lady, or so it's said, owns at least one piece of Mignon Faget jewelry, adornment as central to a lady's wardrobe in this city as a piece from Tiffany & Co. in New York." [1]

She graduated from H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in 1955 with a BFA and a concentration in sculpture. She additionally studied at L'Atelier de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and The Parsons School of Design in New York. [2]

She launched her first ready-to-wear line in 1969 in a studio in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans. [3] In 1997, she renovated a neo-classical former bank building to house her company, in addition to galleries in New Orleans, Metairie, and Baton Rouge. After opening her new facility, she donated her original location on Dublin Street to the Preservation Resource Center. [4]

Her jewelry is often inspired by New Orleans architecture and culture or based on forms in nature. She works in gold, silver, precious, and semi-precious stones. She also designs items for the home. She has designed jewelry to benefit organizations such as Save Our Cemeteries, the Preservation Resource Center, Desire NOLA, Woodlands Trail and Park, and H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College.

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mignon Faget's uptown gallery was one of the first businesses to re-open. She donated and continues to donate proceeds from the sale of her Fleur de Lis jewelry to Louisiana Rebirth. [5] [6]