Finally, the cool girl’s take on meenakari

If your Pinterest board is a mix of soft architecture, cherry blossoms, and the urge to book a solo trip to the Himalayas, Zoya’s new jewellery collection with British designer Alice Cicolini is very much for you.

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration for Indian luxury jewellery, the brand has teamed up with Cicolini to present a 19-piece capsule that blends heritage, slow design, and modern wearability. Think: pastel meenakari enamelling, sculptural forms, and a surprising back story that involves a journey to Tibet. In other words, this is jewellery for the woman who’s got layers, thanks.

Cicolini found her muse in explorer Alexandra David-Néel—the original wanderlust girlboss who, in the 1900s, left Paris (and her marriage, briefly) to follow her fascination with India. “She started in Sri Lanka, went all the way up the east coast of India, and arrived at the gates of Lhasa, where she was the first woman to ever enter the Dalai Lama’s palace,” says the Central Saint Martins alum. “Because of her commitment, her integrity, and the depth of research...she was taken seriously.”

Eventually, David-Néel became more than a reference. “She becomes a kind of, if you like, embodiment of the Zoya woman,” explains Cicolini when we meet in Delhi to chat about the launch of the collection.

Cicolini herself is known to be a longtime Indophile. Many of her pieces are frequently made in collaboration with artisans from Jaipur, and as a former British Council Arts Director in India, she spent years living here, working to keep endangered meenakari techniques alive.

With this collection, she’s swapped the typical jewel tones and maximalist motifs of meenakari for a more Gen Z-coded, candy-sweet palette of sage green, rose blush, and dew white. The resulting pieces feel serene, intentional, and intimate. “These are minimal pieces that look majestic,” says Revathi Kant, chief design officer at Titan Company. “There’s softness and structure, poetry and precision.”

The capsule includes sculptural rings and kadas, all brought to life with uncut diamonds and 18-carat satin-finish gold. Each piece is finished with intricate, hand-mixed enamel that’s been developed over years of experimentation. You’ll find cherry blossoms blooming in the curves of earrings, Tibetan-inspired patterns etched into bracelets, and layered temple rooftops and gongs reimagined as sculptural details on rings and earrings. But unlike many high-jewellery pieces, these are designed to be worn not worshipped from a velvet box.

“I’m not a minimalist designer,” laughs Cicolini, “I don’t want to make things that are already out there. I want to remind people why craftsmanship is so important. Why there’s a poetry to it, you know?”

That shared devotion to storytelling and slowness is what brought her and Zoya together. “This capsule took five years to build,” explains Kant. “We started talking in 2019, and then COVID hit. But we kept designing virtually, kept experimenting with gold purity, enamel shades, stone settings.” Every piece had to pass the vibe check for beauty, balance, and wearability.

So, who’s this collection for? The Zoya x Alice Cicolini woman is part Alexandra David-Néel, part 2025: quietly confident, endlessly curious, and deeply intentional. She doesn’t follow trends; she follows her instincts. She wears jewellery not for validation but because it feels like her.

As Cicolini puts it: “There’s an energy in these pieces. The care that’s gone into them—the time, the research, the quiet consideration—it all adds up to jewellery that becomes part of your identity.”