Meet your new favourite jewellery designer AlighieriJewels
That gold necklace you have seen your favourite insider wear, the espadrilles that have taken over Instagram this summer – they all belong to Alighieri, the jewellery brand the fashion industry can’t get enough of.– is like stepping inside the most beautiful Aladdin’s cave. Taking inspiration from her favourite text, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Mahtani has brought antiquity to the modern woman in the most wearable way.
“I grew up in Africa, and my family and I went on a trip to Cape Town which was really special,” she tells me. “There was a man selling little necklaces that had a tiny glass vessel and in it one grain of rice, which you could write your name on. He wrote my name incorrectly, but I wore it for years and years and years.
“I’ve always collected and made things,” she says. “At University it was my one pleasure. There was a flea market every Wednesday and I go before I started working on my essay and I would collect old coins and old fragments and I would put them on chains because I really like this idea that no one would have the same thing.”
“What I loved so much about jewellery was that I didn’t know the rules,” says Mahtani. “If I had gone to jewellery school I wouldn’t have enjoyed it because it wouldn’t allow me to just be free and be myself and I think I would have pretended to be something that wasn’t myself.” It’s that idea of feeling a bit lost, vulnerable and imperfect that is exactly why the brand is called, Alighieri.
“There is a part in the Divine Comedy where a lion comes towards Dante – it’s so terrifying even the air is trembling around it – and he turns on his heal and he says, ‘I am not Aeneas I am not a hero, I can’t do this journey, I am not good enough, I am not strong enough’ and he gives up.
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