Now in its seventh year, the show shines a spotlight on Indian artistry

Greetings from Mumbai! I’m here in India attending the Signature jewelry trade show, staged biannually by India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). 

I’ll give you a wrap-up of the show, which ends Monday at the Bombay Exhibition Center, in my Retail Details blog this Thursday. But in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the beautiful pieces I’ve encountered while walking the aisles.

Rule number one in Indian jewelry design: More is always more. 

 

Full-frontal bling at the RBZ Jewellers booth

A stately bib with colored gemstones at SK Jewellery

Men’s intricately linked oversized chains at Chain N Chains

Gold and silver objets at Agrawal Jewellers, one of the rare silversmiths at Signature

A fashionable twist on the traditional gold-and-black chains grooms give their brides the day after the wedding, at Shraddha Jewellery

 

The bold and the beautiful at SK Jewellery

A floral stunner at FABJewels

A blindingly opulent bib from Kundan Meena

Floating gold bangles—an Indian classic—at Swarn Shree Jewels

One Mumbai industry insider called these curvaceous pieces from SwarnSarita “the new Indian-style jewelry.”

 

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