I've always been reticent of Mother's Day. I don't need a holiday to be reminded of what motherhood gives, and takes. I know that's not a universal feeling - for some it's pure celebration, for others it's something harder to hold.

The Ouvelle M.OTHER collection was made from exactly that place. Not to celebrate motherhood in the hallmark way, but to sit with it honestly. The duality of it. The way you are both one with your children and entirely yourself, separate. The way you are constantly evolving - and so are they. The symbols I work with are quiet but intentional: the egg, the moment of conception, the curve of milk, the patterns in childhood play.There's something about jewelry - worn against the skin, passed between hands - that makes it the closest thing we have to a carried memory. Something you can hold, and one day give.

My mother and I have very different tastes. She's a maximalist - the more decorated and sentimental the better. I prefer abstraction. But when I open her jewelry box and discover her brutalist opal ring from the 70's, my grandmother's Edwardian diamond cluster ring, and her gold charm bracelet full of her milestones - these objects I hold dear. Jewelry was always where we found common ground.

That's what I hope Ouvelle can be -  a symbol of that ongoing evolution. Not just from mother to child, but from woman to woman. A physical thread between the self you were, the one you are, and the one still becoming.