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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why Oxidised Silver Jewellery Became the Urban Indian Woman's Quiet Style Statement

The jewellery that stopped trying to impress

You have seen her. On the Metro in Delhi, in a Bengaluru café nursing her second coffee, walking through a Colaba market on a Saturday with no particular urgency. She is wearing oxidised silver, a pair of jhumkas gone dark at the filigree, a chunky ring with the grey-black finish of something found rather than bought, a choker that sits close to the collarbone without announcing itself. She is not dressed up. She is not dressed down. She has simply decided.

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