Waris Ahluwalia Quotes

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly.

I made two rings for myself and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields and they essentially bought them off my hands. Those were originally made in New York. There wasn't craftsmanship, there was just manufacturing, and I wasn't interested in doing that. My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

I love jewellery, and the idea of having something you've created become tangible is really exciting.

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

I get really excited about jewelry.

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.