Snake charmer

recalling her time in Rome, where she travelled to meet Lucia Silvestri, creative director of jewellery at Bulgari, in 2019. Speaking on a Zoom call from Tokyo, where she helms her jewellery and apparel line Ambush, she is transported back to Silvestri’s desk on the Lungotevere Marzio, where the creative director was toying, child-like, with precious gems and stones. “She had all of these crazy stones laid out on her desk and people bringing emeralds and rubies and sapphires the size of your fist,” Ahn remembers. “You would think someone would handle