A new collection celebrating Olympic gold medallist Julien Alfred is set to help support her charitable work, according to the French-Saint Lucian founder of Fearless Jewellery, Eleanor Prospere. Prospere officially unveiled the Julien Alfred Legacy Collection on October 11, during the maiden event for the Julien Alfred Foundation, a fundraising celebratory cocktail at BodyHoliday’s Firefly Villa.
Billed as a celebration of triumph, identity, and national pride, the Legacy Collection will return part proceeds to the Julien Alfred Foundation, which aims to support the development of young athletes in Saint Lucia. Comprising a unisex macramé bracelet, earrings, and a charm-infused gold-plated necklace and bracelet, the collection was birthed after Alfred won the 100m title at Paris 2024.
“I realised that that was a big game-changer for Saint Lucia,” Prospere told the St. Lucia Times. “Because thanks to her, Saint Lucia is placed on the map. People don’t know Saint Lucia anymore just because of the Pitons or our drive-in volcano or gig and lamowi as the national dish. But now, when people say Saint Lucia, even in Martinique when people hear Saint Lucia, they think of Julien Alfred. So I thought then, why not create a jewellery line inspired from her. That way, everybody in Saint Lucia and everyone living elsewhere, Saint Lucians living abroad can have a piece of jewellery that was inspired from Julien Alfred at the same time assembling all of Saint Lucia’s prominent symbols as a way to share the win with her.”
The commemorative jewellery line is built around the design of the Olympic gold medal, with the distinctive hexagon at the centre and the fine lines radiating outwards, indicative of the shining performances of the athletes at the Games.
“So then I thought about incorporating the Saint Lucian flag in the middle of the Olympic medal, and then I had to keep the geometric shape,” Prospere explained to St. Lucia Times. “Now, my thing with jewellery, I love geometric-shaped jewellery, because I like everything inspired from the pyramids in Egypt. I did a sketch and I was brainstorming with my team, because we always translate every sketch, every idea into a digital format. So I told my designer, I want to keep the medal as it is. The shape, the fan-like movement in the gold streaks of the medal, and the middle, where you have the geometric shape. I want to incorporate the Saint Lucian flag, but not changing too much of the original style.”
The bigger pieces incorporate iconography that celebrates Saint Lucian identity. Included are a triangle from the flag, the outline of the map, one of our national flowers — the marguerite — a torch from the Coat of Arms, and the Amazona Versicolor. Having envisioned the entire collection, Prospere was excited. But she was missing one crucial element. She did not yet have the blessing of Alfred herself.
“So I spoke to my dad about the idea, and since I live in Martinique, my dad was the one who actually went and did his little adventure,” Prospere explained. “He went to Ciceron where Julien went to primary school. He asked for a teacher. He went to see the principal. He went to see her former coach to get some sort of contact and an email address, so that we could ask her and her manager directly for their permission to be able to pursue crafting the jewellery.”
Once her father was able to track down the three-time global gold medallist and her manager, Henry Rolle, Prospere crafted “a heartfelt email” outlining her concept. Once Alfred and her manager signed off on the idea, a three-year collaboration agreement was put in place in March 2025, and Prospere went to work. She took two months to make the first samples, with numerous revisions, because she wanted everything to be perfect. Finally, direct feedback was sought from Alfred.
“Everything was exactly like how I imagined it,” Prospere revealed. “So once I had the first samples, I sent them to Henry [Rolle] for approval and he sent them to Julien [Alfred] for approval. They both thought it was beautiful, and that was when I had to pass on the last stage which was to fabricate all of the pieces. So I worked very hard and I financed the entire collection myself. I financed the design, the batch of samples, and fabricated all the pieces to have ready before the foundation auction in October. So I had to do everything it took to make sure I was able to pay for the entire collection. Currently, I have in my possession 400 pieces.”
Prospere is planning two further additions to the collection: a Cuban link necklace for men, and a matching necklace for women. After their first in-person meeting in early October, she is preparing for a photo shoot with Alfred, who is like her, an alumna of Leon Hess Comprehensive Secondary School. Like Alfred, Prospere is rooted in Saint Lucia, though her life’s journey has had many stops. But jewellery, she says, has been ever-present.
“I always loved jewellery. Jewellery is something that was in me from the time I was a child,” she told St. Lucia Times. “My mom used to date a goldsmith, a metal smith from St Croix, when I was about eight years old, who taught me all the basics of precious stones, gemstones. So from a child I always liked shiny things… I built my own brand. I had to learn everything from scratch and here I am 14 years later, still doing jewellery, and I’m happy to be doing jewellery, designing, and crafting. I can’t see myself doing anything else.”
