62 x 3.5 cm
Wearable art neckpiece made of a hand carved rectangle of wood painted with black acrylic and wrapping and tassels of Swiss yarn
Avoid wearing this piece in the rain.
Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Indo-Canadian designer Vaneesha Advani moved to New York at seventeen to study fashion design at the prestigious Parsons School of Design.
After Parsons, she relocated to Canada, where she spent more than a decade working with fashion houses, importers, and buyers in Vancouver and Montreal, gaining extensive experience in design and trend forecasting.
Drawing on this background, Advani founded her jewellery brand, Designs By Sonia, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 2008. The brand became fully active in 2011, when she presented her first collection during Paris Fashion Week. She subsequently showcased her work during New York and Milan Fashion Weeks and was represented by a Paris showroom until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, Advani creates bold, contemporary, and avant-garde jewellery that bridges fashion and wearable art. Her sculptural designs explore form, texture, movement, and scale, transforming jewellery into distinctive artistic statements. Her work has reached an international audience, earning recognition for its originality, craftsmanship, and striking sculptural aesthetic.
