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The Beginning
One box. One bedroom. One idea.
It was the middle of the pandemic and I had $500, no mentor, and no playbook. I started XVXII from my bedroom — selling Indian jhumkas I sourced and packed myself, posting everything on TikTok because that's where I could reach people for free.
I wasn't a jewellery designer. I wasn't even sure it would work. But I knew I had been selling things since I was seven — garam masala popcorn to classmates, handmade bookmarks for a dollar — and I wasn't going to let fear be the reason I didn't try.