Something I’ve noticed recently is how many women are choosing and buying significant pieces of jewellery for themselves. Not as gifts in the traditional sense, but to mark a moment that felt important in their own lives. Sometimes it's a professional milestone, an achievement or a new chapter. Sometimes it's just because... well, why not?
In the showroom, this is something you begin to notice over time and I love seeing that connection happen. A piece might have been sitting in my display for a few weeks, admired and tried on by different people. Then someone else sees it, puts it on and you can tell almost immediately that it feels right.
I think the gemstones have a lot to do with it and people often respond quite instinctively to one particular stone. It might be the colour or simply the way it catches the light. Someone else might have chosen something completely different, but that individuality is part of their beauty.
Not every important moment in life comes with a traditional occasion attached to it. Some are much more personal and might not be obvious to anyone else, but that doesn’t make them any less worth marking. Sometimes the person wearing the jewellery is the only one who needs to know what it represents.
