Kiran fine jewellery, revived: the journey within

Still Waters' inaugural book is titled Revived: The Journey. Hassan provided the text and Aman the jewellery. It is based on a collection of pieces that Aman designed, structured around the four emotional states of a woman that she conceived: Encaptured, Wired, Echoed, Encircled. Each of these, the book says, "are states that colour every woman's emotional journey". The pair approached 14 women from Pakistan's fashion industry for their involvement. Fashion, said Hassan, was picked because it "is the one industry in Pakistan that has been pioneered largely by women". The result is a book of 14 mini-biographies of the women, illustrated with black and white photographs of key moments in their lives and a discussion about the emotional states they relate most to. Nilofer Shahid, the designer behind the fashion house Meeras, talks of losing her father, a subsequent period of financial struggle and launching her business, experiencing different emotional states on the way. The designer Faiza Samee discusses her engagement at 14, having given birth to three children by the time she was 20, and the elements of her character that make her an "Encaptured" personality. (A state that "achieves contentment through fulfilling the roles required by family and society.") Aman and Hassan are preparing for the release of the paperback version and planning to distribute Revived to Pakistani schools for "young girls looking for direction in today's fast-changing world", according to Aman. It's a concern with contemporary life in Pakistan that is partly behind the pair's decision not only to launch Still Waters, but to release a further two books in Dubai. The developing creative scene in Pakistan is, says Hassan, "exactly what the country needs now".