26-year-old besties Charlotte Greville and Danielle Mayer are no strangers to the fashion industry. They both work in it–Greville, as a stylist who cut her teeth working for Vogue Japan’s George Cortina, and Mayer, a newly-minted designer out of Parsons who has interned for Rachel Comey and currently pays the bills freelancing. They’re the scrappy upstarts behind brand new accessories line Best Friends Brooklyn, and they just launched ecommerce this week. (If you want to check out their wares in person, stop bytheir first trunk show at Thistle & Clover in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on June 22 or Cynthia Rowley, where they’re already being stocked.)

As the name of the line implies, Greville and Mayer are indeed best friends. They even co-captained their Brookline, MA high school cheerleading team together, though you’d never suspect it to look at them now (see evidence above, left, and current photo of the girls in their studio, below). And they’re also, duh, based out of Brooklyn. Another jewelry line out of Brooklyn? Yes. But these girls aren’t Pamela Love-devotees. They’ve used their backgrounds and connections in fashion to their advantage, taking a cautious approach to a new line that’s quite craft-based (think lots of wood blocks, leather probably to come); a pleasant departure from the skeletons and talons and gothic charms that have dominated the Brooklyn jewelry scene for the past few years.

I stopped by Greville and Mayer’s studio (read: a small back room in Mayer’s Greenpoint apartment) to find out how they’re making it: