I started designing and making semi precious and beaded jewellery when I was 12, and I got into fine jewellery at 16 when I started studying as a bench jeweller.  Once I started with fine jewellery, I knew it was exactly what I wanted to pursue as a career. I studied as a bench jeweller locally in Santa Monica, and in college I moved to Florence, Italy for a year, and studied at a small artisan school. When I came back and graduated from university a year later, I launched the collection. 

I’ve never had one singular source of inspiration, I am more inspired by the way jewellery lays on the body and the way we come to adapt jewellery as part of our wardrobes. Even more than just a wardrobe, it becomes a second skin to people and something that people wear religiously. There’s no one source, the key for me is I have to put myself in an environment where I am creative, and I have realised in the last few years that I have to remove myself from my office and from LA in order to get to that place.