\n\tFor Kim, the connection to athletics runs deep. She and her twin sister competed in Junior Olympics volleyball and were state champions throughout high school.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe values you learn as an athlete become pillars of your identity,\u201d Kim said. \u201cThe culture of sport has played a huge part in my development as a jewelry designer and creative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSports has become a recurring language at Bijules, from working with athletes including tennis player Hailey Baptiste and basketball player Paige Bueckers to projects around basketball and baseball. During the New York Knicks\u2019 2026 championship run, Kim customized her Sport Pearls collection with New York nail salon Vanity Projects.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI love the romance of sport and cherish the human resilience that is so rare to witness in other practices,\u201d Kim said. \u201cSport is an integral part of how we move, look, win and lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tTopspin necklace from Bijules and Kamyen.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulie Young-Ai Kim<\/p>\n
\n\tWith Topspin, Kim looked specifically at the movement of an athlete to rethink the traditional diamond line. \u201cAs an athlete, I was taught to control my body to drive the hardest impact: the spike,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I looked at the low-to-high forehand that creates topspin in tennis, I immediately understood that motion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat swing appears across the jewelry as a path of hand-painted enamel embracing alternating Desert Diamonds. Made with Kamyen, the pieces are set in 18-karat gold and offered in Grass Green, U.S. Open Blue and Chalk White with fancy yellow diamonds. A pink iteration combines rose gold with wheat diamonds. \u201cWe were able to translate an athletic gesture into something incredibly precise and refined,\u201d Kim said of the collection. <\/p>\n
\n\tEach piece is finished with a co-branded tennis-racket clasp and a Bijules Tennis Sport Pearl pendant, its markings hand-painted by nail artists from Vanity Projects. The enamel swing can also be customized for teams, tournaments, athletes and other cultural moments.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tTopspin from Bijules and Kamyen.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Bjules<\/p>\n
\n\tThe collaboration<\/a> comes as Kim gains wider recognition within fine jewelry<\/a>. Earlier this year, she was a finalist for the David Yurman Gem Award for Emerging Artist, an experience the former athlete compared to trying out for a sports team. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI choose to be independent, and that has real advantages in terms of creativity and mobility in the market,\u201d Kim said of her brand, with sports now offering another avenue to expand her universe. <\/p>\n \n\tTopspin bracelets start at $12,000 and necklaces at $37,000, with bespoke and custom color commissions available.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m excited to continue building a platform dedicated to the athletes, fans and visionaries who make sport so timeless and passionate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI am a recovering volleyball player,\u201d Jules Kim said. The Bijules founder\u2019s long-running fascination with sports is turning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18945,21367,463],"class_list":["post-56638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-open","tag-collaboration","tag-fine-jewelry","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}