STYLE & SUBSTANCE

PEARLS OF WISDOM

THE CLASSIC GEM HAS BEEN GIVEN A REVIVAL

SAPNA MEHTA

For trained jeweller Sapna Mehta, pearls have always had a certain appeal. “They are lively and capture light in a way that makes them luminescent,” she says. Which is why her latest collection, Colista—featuring danglers, bracelets, and rings—celebrates this gemstone. A graduate of the Gemological Institue of America, UK, Mehta studied gemology and design, and set up her first store, Sapna Signature, in London in 1998. She moved to Mumbai after her wedding, and set up her eponymous brand in 2009. “My pieces are modern yet feminine,” she says, “Pearls traditionally symbolised purity, power, and wealth—and I thought that