EINA AHLUWALIA

Founder, Eina Ahluwalia

“Talismans are, in my opinion, the mother of all jewellery. I am fascinated with the 200 Venus figurines from antiquity, the first of which—Venus of Hohle Fels—is dated to around 35,000 B.C.. These were often made of mammoth bone, ivory, stone, or clay, and modelled on women with big breasts, protruding stomachs, and wide hips. our 2015 collection, Paradisiac, we created necklaces around four, historic Venuses of different body shapes, serving as totems of self-acceptance and a celebration of all body types.

have also used other motifs in our jewellery over the years: goddesses as symbols of power, swords for strength, skulls as memento mori, griffins as guardians of precious treasures, sacred geometry as symbols of perfection, hands and the heart for love kindness, paper boats as symbols of innocence, and most powerful of all, words as symbols in themselves.

I realised early on that treating jewellery as a personal