Smitha Sadanandan

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If someone had told Reema Chopra two decades ago that she’d become a jewelry designer, she would have laughed. “I started out in banking,” she says, recalling her early career with Canadian bank CIBC. “Private wealth, mortgages, asset management — that was my world.” But after relocating to New York in 2013 and being unable to re-enter the corporate sector due to visa restrictions, she returned to an old love: jewelry.

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Brand: Karina Choudhrie JewelsFounder: Karina Choudhrie What’s New: Besides new additions to the high jewelry collection, Under the Sea, the designer will unveil a new line, The Big Splash Circus, and offer a sneak peek into Summer Forest, a collection perfect for summer. Karina Choudhrie’s core offerings, Icon and Vitamin Pink, have been expanded into Ribbon, Mini, and Icon Rock — all rendered in 18-karat gold.

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Miami-born and of Cuban-Armenian descent, Vanessa Fernández is not merely a jeweller but a maker of movement. Trained at the bench, her goldsmithing skills and designs blur the boundaries between adornment and sculpture. Her resume is enviable, too — designing at John Hardy under Guy Bedarida, Louis Vuitton under Lorenz Bäumer, and contributing to high jewelry projects for Gucci, Christie’s, and Tasaki, including a special commission for the Nippon Foundation in Japan.

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At this year’s COUTURE show, Melissa Kaye introduces Rocky and Daphne – two new collections that underscore her signature design language of gold and graphic lines. Both are anchored in the interplay between diamonds and gold, but differ in their inspirations and structural forms. Rocky, perhaps the more tactile of the two, is a continuation of the designer’s fascination with form, weight, and the way elements come together.

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Founded by Dubai-based mother-daughter duo Shweta and Chandni Mehta, the brand marks its U.S. debut at COUTURE in Las Vegas with an offering that’s anything but predictable: titanium jewels awash in color and designed with intention. “We treat jewelry not as a trend or ornament, but as a sculptural form of emotion—something to be felt as much as seen,” says the duo. “We wanted to come out with a bang; be the noise, not part of it,” adds Shweta, designer and co-founder.