Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest to a Hungarian opera singer and a Sikh scholar, and she grew up between two worlds. At sixteen she went to Paris to study art, and her painting Young Girls soon made her the youngest member, and the only Asian, ever elected an associate of the Grand Salon in Paris.

She could have stayed. Instead, she came back to India and began to see it with new eyes. She studied the cave paintings of Ajanta and the miniatures of the Mughal and Pahari courts, and blended them with everything Paris had taught her. The result was something entirely new: Indian life, painted with European boldness and Indian colour. Nobody had seen anything quite like it.

Not everyone understood it at first. She didn’t mind. “Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque and many others,” she wrote to a friend. “India belongs only to me.”

Today her paintings are declared national art treasures, and they aren’t allowed to leave the country.

Amrita didn’t find her style by following the rules. She found it by experimenting, mixing what she knew with what she discovered, until her work looked like no one else’s.

Fusion jewellery is made for the same kind of experiment. Wear the jhumkas with a blazer. Try the temple choker with a denim jacket. Pair the old with the new, the bold with the delicate. Some looks will surprise you. Some will become your signature.

There’s no wrong way to try. Europe belonged to Picasso. India belonged to Amrita. Your style belongs only to you.

Amrita by Moonelle. Rise to every occasion.