Kriss Eglite

Our October speaker for Pioneer will be Kriss Eglite, an Estonian jewellery designer, creative director and entrepreneur, who founded the successful jewelry brand New Vintage by Kriss.

We will be talking about the pioneering in jewellery design and will also discuss how to protect the creative products from being copied.

From the beginning Kriss set the goal to create jewellery that would empower women to live lives fully, to dream big and to act bold, to forget about the rules and follow their own path. That is why each design carries a message, a story behind it - something that moves, encourages or touches us.

Kriss' road to becoming a jewellery designer and a business owner is a bit unusual. She did not study in an art school, in fact until her early 30s she didn't think she was particularly creative or even had any interest in making jewellery. And as it often happens it takes a difficult or unpleasant event in our life, to suddenly open us up to a completely new way of living.

Doing things her own way, trusting her own instincts and going against the expected norm has been one of the main lessons that she continually practices and values in her work.