India's Best Contemporary Jewelry Designers

The love of jewelry in India as an expression of wealth, a spiritual symbol and an object of beauty has a 5,000-year-old history and is embedded deep in the Indian culture To tap into this tradition of well-crafted pieces with high design themes, there is a growing and diverse group of contemporary designers and artists who are producing a range of jewels that appeal to both domestic and international audiences One of the up-and-coming designers who has earned a strong reputation in India is Pallavi Foley.

"The stories from India are deep I translate them through jewelry design." Contemporary high jewelers do exist in India but in very small numbers In India jewelry is often passed down within families and gifted by men to women or purchased by the family as a group.

She says purchasing jewelry in India generally isn't an experience but a "Necessity or a need that we fulfill as Indians to make a purchase of jewelry because it runs in our blood We wanted to create a disruption to that and so we said this is going to be woman's space to cut out the entire world and for the first time it will really be about her, rather than everybody else." . Source