The London-based jewelry designer makes her pieces the focus of her outfits.
was about bringing people together."Jewelry is a universal language," says Mahtani."I was fascinated that jewelry is a currency of love, friendship, and protection across all cultures," she says. Her journey into creating her brand Alighieri—named for Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri—began when she enrolled in a one-day wax carving course and instantly fell in love with the medium.
With a loyal customer base and a brand that experienced a significant growth spurt in the past several years, Mahtani says she will never forget her days of knocking on doors and making cold calls to sell her jewelry concept. Now her quality,line is an entire universe, expanding into a collection of homewares and silk scarves.
We chatted with the designer about the importance of rituals, her minimalist work wardrobe, and the power of storytelling through jewelry.I talk about rituals a lot, and I'm a creature of habit and routine. My most productive hours are my early morning hours, so I try to wake up around six-ish, and it's coffee, coffee. I'll sit in my kitchen and set up for the day, try and clear my inbox and get ahead before I go into the office.
Following that, every day in the office is always different, and I like exercising different parts of the brain and going from production and logistics to creative and marketing. We're a team of 30, and we're lucky to be a size where we can still have visibility and interconnectedness between different departments.I wear the same things on repeat—they're my trusted friends. I'm pretty minimal.
I also have one dress that I keep revisiting. I call it my lucky dress. It's this really old, silk, chiffon, V-neck, long, quite Grecian dress that I bought to wear at a graduation party when I was 21. I had one of the best nights ever in that dress. Whenever I wear that dress, I'm like, today's going to be a good day, a lucky day. You can wear it to a wedding, but you can also style it with a pair of flats or sneakers.
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