Death is strangely trendy these days. It has never not been a trend, let’s face it, but the goth, zomboid edge in jewellery is really having a moment. Most of the time, death is not what we want to wear on our finger, wrist or neck, but it has become popular in the wake of the pandemic. In the plague-y Middle Ages, for instance, memento mori (remember you must die) pieces abounded. Inlaid and engraved with skeletons and skulls, graveyard diggers or winged hourglasses, death jewellery reminded us that we are born with one foot in the grave—and that the other should be dancing a jig or seizing the day. “Eat, drink and be merry,” said our rings and necklaces.
The fashion for mourning jewellery comes and goes, but it…
