Creative Director of Mahesh Notandass and founder of Vandals. Fourth-generation heir to a jewellery legacy that began in pre-Partition Pakistan with her great-great-grandfather Kundan Mal Jagwani, carried forward by her grandfather Notandass Jagwani (who opened the brand's first flagship store in Bandra in 1983) and her father Mahesh Jagwani. Vandana now runs the house's heritage line alongside Vandals, her own disruptive, design-first jewelry label. This episode of Shweta's Talkies is shot inside the Bandra flagship store of Mahesh Notandass and Vandals, with Creative Director Vandana Jagwani. Vandana traces her family's century-long jewellery legacy — from Pakistan to Jaipur to Bombay — and explains why lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to mined ones, why gold (not diamonds) remains the only real "investment," and how her generation is reframing jewellery as wearable art rather than a locked-away asset. The conversation moves into the studio floor for a look at the Vandals collection, from gemstone-only pieces with no diamonds at all to a hand-painted, art-gallery-style store designed to feel more like a boutique than a traditional showroom.

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