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The Be jewelled Life of Farah Khan Ali


A stunning tome personifying the extraordinary life of Farah Khan Ali, ‘A Bejewelled Life’ has garnered much recognition world over

By: Soumya Jain

Coming from a Bollywood family, Farah Khan Ali is more than just that. She is a designer, a traveller, and an artist. A true connoisseur of nature and beauty, Ms. Khan has never restricted herself to the expectations of others, the trends or the industry. Recounting some of her experiences and designs, Farah Khan Ali recently launched her coffee table book, ‘A Bejewelled Life’.

From the get go, the book has been receiving much support from popular media. From luxury blogs to luxury magazines in India to international media, many reviews have come forth, praising the book for its style, writing, design and some incredible photography!

‘Farah Khan – A Bejewelled Life’ is divided into five chapters. The first is ‘Fluidity’, describing the designer’s spirituality, her metamorphosis, and the way she has been reinventing herself. Farah Khan Ali has spent a lot of her childhood in Jaipur’s palaces when she accompanied her father, actor-director-producer Sanjay Khan, on his shoots. The designer was mesmerised by the grandeur and artisanship of the palaces and thus the second chapter – ‘A Royal Affair’. There are some portraits of Ms. Khan herself in the Palaces, imbibing the magnum opus of an architecture and heritage.

Farah Khan Ali is known for her depiction of flora and fauna in her jewellery designs. Her inspiration are her travels, the cultures, and people that she sees and meets. The third chapter is therefore ‘Naturalia’. The fourth chapter, ‘Rose’, is an ode to poetry, love and all things romance. The designer traces her memories back to Kashmir where she spent many of her holidays. The final chapter of the book is ‘Surreal Vision’, the art of tracing beauty in chaos, art in contradictions and inspiration from landscapes. In this chapter, the designer admits taking aid from the contradictions of cities, textures, and colours for her graphic jewel designs.


The book includes numerous moments of her handcrafted 18-karat gold jewels and renderings with awe-inspiring landscape, architecture, and animal images from the designer’s lens, some even from her phone. But everything is beautifully tied up with short write-ups from her, some quotes and some poetry by Rumi. The pictography in the book also include works of artists Chie Yoshii, Farah Mulla, Manjunath Kamath – all of whom inspire her work to a holistic form. 

Farah Khan Ali is the first Indian jewellery designer to get an international book release and has received rave reviews from Forbes and The New York Times.


Forbes says, “This book recounts far more than Khan’s varied jewelry designs. Indeed, A Bejewelled Life honors the designer’s compassion for the human family, her passion for all colors of the spectrum, as well as her love of Indian and European architecture and appreciation for diverse applied art forms and concepts.”

Luxury blog LuxuryFacts.com says, “The 304-page tome, curated and edited by Paola de Luca and published by Rizzoli, is a lavish illustration of Ms. Khan’s perspective, her journey and life. What begins from a tête-à-tête between Ms. Khan and Ms. de Luca on their way to the airport in Goa is a consummating journey of art and direction.”

Vogue, one of the most popular luxury magazines in India, says, “Shot across the length and breadth of India, right from Andaman & Nicobar Islands to Kashmir, the book tells a story of people, places and things that have inspired Khan’s inherent artistic sensibilities when it comes to her jewellery and her more recent lifestyle line, besides giving us a glimpse into her equally glamourous personal life.”



The book is indeed a must-read into the beauty of India, its people, and the myriad other inspirations it has to offer to imaginative creatures such as Farah Khan Ali.

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