Waris Ahluwalia
Quotes by Waris Ahluwalia
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I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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