About Anoushka

Inspired by New Zealand’s natural landscape and beauty, Anoushka Van Rijn's jewellery is a modern take on vintage inspired design. The brand consists of a classic bespoke collection, unique one-off pieces and custom designed pieces.
Anoushka’s aesthetic is a combination of her love of vintage and New Zealand’s incredible scenery. It draws inspiration from everyday life and her surroundings. The collections are centred around bold statement jewellery for the woman who wants to stand out, feel special, and embrace their unique selves. Anoushka strives to help people move out of their fashion “comfort zones” and to embrace courageous, confident design. As a testament to her passion for quality and sustainability, all of Anoushka’s pieces are designed and created by hand in New Zealand. Her materials are sourced in New Zealand, US and Bali.
Her inspiration comes from her own imagination and her strong belief that all woman are goddesses. She is mostly inspired by Venus. The Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. So New Zealand’s fresh beach scene is so encompassing to her. The actual materials also inspire her design. She looks for unique colours, textures, and shapes that appeal to her magpie eye. “When I see something that draws me in, I immediately get a strong knowing whether it is exceptional and individual enough to inspire others.”
Her style can be explained as bold, stand out, and fearlessly self-expressive. Her motto is “be yourself not someone else,” and, she believes, fashion has a huge role to play in achieving this. Anoushka’s favourite saying comes from Chanel: “in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” Anoushka lives these words and follows them with all her heart. “We are ALL irreplaceable because we are ALL different,” she stresses. Anoushka feels strongly that we must all embrace our uniqueness. I hear so many women say, “oh, but I can’t pull that off.” So, I say in reply, “the only reason you can’t pull it off is because you don’t believe YOU CAN.”
Anoushka’s jewellery has been featured in three issues of British Vogue and three issues of Vanity Fair. Her designs have also adorned many fearless women, such as Parris Goebel, Ngahuia Williams, Simone Anderson and Laura Hardlow. Anoushka’s designs have also been featured in some of New Zealand’s top Fashion Magazines: Fashion Quarterly, Remix, Next Magazine, Together Journal and The Sunday Herald. Anoushka Van Rijn Jewellery showcased as part of New Zealand Fashion Week two years running (2017 & 2019), Ipseity Paris Popup Boutique & Website (2018), D&M directory (2018-2019) Oversew fashion weekend (2018), Truly and Madly blog (2018), Hate Me Date Me blog (2018), Flying Fish Productions (2018) and Unique Model Management (2017 & 2018), 62 model management (2018).