Painted jewellery by Suhani Pittie

Gold, ugh. You’re a silver person. Over the years, you’ve graduated from oxidised roadside danglers to showroom sizzlers, but the allure of the metal has been rock steady.

Trendy lets you in on this season’s new trinket trend. Get yourself a Suhani Pittie piece: the 26-year-old Gemological Institute of America alumnus hand-paints exquisite pieces of silver jewellery, the best match for your autumn-evening silk shirts, if not your walls quite yet.

Hyderabad-based Suhani’s new collection, Marshes & Marigold, ditches bling in favour of paint. Soft floral designs on polished silver make these pieces very feminine, and very different from the oh-so-passe semi-precious stone-studded baubles that are everywhere. God lies in the details — the blushing pink flower petals, and vivid brown and green stems and leaves.

In addition to the regular earrings, neck pieces, rings and bracelets, the collection also has nifty brooches, buckles and cufflinks. This time around, Suhani has used fine chains and even jute, moving away from the wood, buttons and wires of her previous collections: her silver is always hand-textured.

Wearable art that sets you apart.

Suhani Pittie’s Marshes & Marigold jewellery collection, at Ffolio (Bangalore), Embassy Chambers, 5 VM Road, Bangalore, Phone: 080-22218142; Ogaan (New Delhi), H-2, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi, Phone: 011-26967595, 26853849; Ensemble (Mumbai), Great Western Building 130/132, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai, Phone: 022-22872882. Price range: Rs 1,000-10,000.