The Canter Collection: Alexandra Hakim Casts the Horseshoe

Canter is Alexandra Hakim’s horseshoe collection, and it is the most direct thing she has made. The horseshoe has been nailed over doorways for luck for centuries, and here it is hammered into recycled brass and sterling silver, set with cubic zirconia, and scaled from a 3.2 cm daily earring up to a 6 cm statement. Five pieces landed at Coveti in September 2026.

Key facts

Why a horseshoe

The horseshoe is one of the oldest luck charms in continuous use. It has been hung over doors across Europe and the Middle East for centuries, pointing up to hold the luck in, and it carries two ideas at once: good fortune coming, and protection against what is already there.

It suits this label. Hakim works with objects that already mean something before she casts them, and a horseshoe arrives pre-loaded. Our guide to what the horseshoe symbolises goes into the history.

The earrings

Three pairs, and the difference between them is scale and stone colour.

• Golden Horseshoe Earrings, 470 US dollars. 3.2 cm, 22K gold-plated brass, lined edge to edge with white cubic zirconia so the light runs along the curve. The daily pair.
• Large Golden Horseshoe Earrings, 570 US dollars. 6 cm, hammered, set with square-cut stones in green, blue, red and pink that sit in the metal like nails in a real shoe. The statement.
• Silver Horseshoe Earrings, 660 US dollars. 3.2 cm in textured sterling silver with yellow cubic zirconia, so the warm stones flash against the cool metal.

All three hang from posts, gold on the gold pairs, silver on the silver.

The necklace

The Golden Horseshoe Necklace at 690 US dollars is the piece that shows the idea best. Rather than hanging one horseshoe from a chain, the chain is built entirely from horseshoes, linked open end to open end in recycled brass and closed with a toggle at the front.

At 45 cm it sits at the collarbone. Worn over a shirt buttoned to the collar with the toggle forward, it is the strongest thing in the collection.

The brooch

The Golden Horseshoe Brooch at 410 US dollars is a 6 cm hammered horseshoe set with princess-cut white cubic zirconia, on a bar pin.

It is the piece that works on a coat as well as on skin, and it is the one most often bought as a gift, because the horseshoe carries its own message without a card. Pinned high on a red lapel, which is how the brand shows it, it does most of the work of an outfit.

Which one to buy

• If you want to wear it daily: the 3.2 cm gold earrings. Small enough for the office, warm enough for dinner.
• If you want people to notice: the large coloured-gem pair at 6 cm.
• If you wear silver: the silver pair, and pair them with a cool palette so the yellow stones read.
• If it is a gift: the brooch. The meaning is legible and there is no sizing to get wrong.
• If you want the collection’s best piece: the linked chain.

Where Canter sits in the collection

Canter joins the lines that came before it: the matchsticks the label was founded on, the khaizaran cane hoops, the market fruit, and the Good Karma zodiac pendants.

It is the most classical of them. Where a cast chilli is unexpected, a horseshoe is a shape everyone already reads. That makes Canter the easiest entry point to the label for someone buying their first piece.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Alexandra Hakim Canter collection?

Canter is the horseshoe collection: three pairs of earrings, a linked horseshoe chain and a lapel brooch, in 22K gold-plated recycled brass and sterling silver set with cubic zirconia. Five pieces are at Coveti, from 410 to 690 US dollars.

What does the horseshoe mean in the Canter collection?

The horseshoe is an old talisman of luck and protection, hung over doorways for centuries. The collection is named for the horse’s gait, and the brand describes each piece as carrying its own quiet horsepower.

How big are the Canter horseshoe earrings?

The gold and silver daily pairs are 3.2 cm. The large coloured-gem pair is 6 cm. The brooch is also 6 cm and the chain is 45 cm.

Are the Canter stones real gemstones?

They are cubic zirconia, in white on the gold and brooch styles, yellow on the silver earrings, and mixed colours on the large gold pair.

Which Canter piece is best for a gift?

The Golden Horseshoe Brooch at 410 US dollars. The horseshoe carries its own meaning, there is no sizing to get wrong, and it works on a coat as well as on a dress.

Read next

• What does a horseshoe symbolise?
• The horseshoe brooch, explained
• Who is Alexandra Hakim?
• The Alexandra Hakim edit

Sources

• Alexandra Hakim, About the designer
• Alexandra Hakim, Jewellery care
• Arab News, Lebanese designer using natural resources to make jewelry
• FashionUnited, Career Q and A with Alexandra Hakim

Prices and stock are as listed on Coveti at the time of writing and change with availability.

Written by Gemma Deeks, Fashion Editor at Coveti.