Meet The Team

Jane, Director and Puppet Master

Jane trained for many years with the Kirov Ballet, Bognor Regis. Due to a sprained ankle she had to give up her career as principal dancer. With a bursary from the Princess Trust she qualified as a horse trainer specialising in Dainty Dressage, a new Olympic equestrian category. Again, due to a bad horse crash during competition, she ended up in hospital with total amnesia. When she came to, sadly she thought she was a concert composer. However, she was saved by a chance meeting with designer Stephen Einhorn who set her on the road to recovery and helped her discover her many hidden talents. Pooling all her unique expertise she created the award-winning online soap Destinee and Dirk. Her new band the Glitter Movement are currently on tour in the Shetland Isles.

Kirsty, Bespoke Manager

Kirsty likes antique markets and is a collector of Vintage clothes and accessories. She loves anything to do with pin-ups and burlesque. She has a jewellery degree, and likes to work on her own pieces when not at work. One of her dreams is to own her own camper van and to live in Cornwall for a summer selling her own jewellery. She loves pizza and chocolate raisins, polka dots and anything red. She hates beef burgers, Indian food, blandness and the colour beige. She is also interested in the history and culture of ancient Greece.

Lily, Consultant

Lily has been around for as long as the shop has and yes she does remember ALL past customers and shop policies over the years, so don't bother trying to pull the wool over her eyes. In fact, she really likes wool, and is currently involved in a project to re-create The Glitter Movement's finest moments in knitted figurines. She also likes books. This, and the fact that she wears glasses, makes her terribly terribly bright. Like her shoes. Lily can either be found playing the accordion whilst riding a Dutch bicycle in clockwise circles, or skulking around theatres. As you can see from this picture, she does not like having her fringe trimmed, and will only be persuaded to do so when bribed with Jelly Tots.

Lisa, Sales Consultant

Lisa is very into all things Vintage. She is a great advocate of Make Do and Mend (obviously not for jewellery, though). She is a well-known and very striking figure on the London Vintage scene. She is also a professional Twitcher. One of her greatest Twitches has been the White Crowned Sparrow sighted in Cley. Her latest Twitch has been a nesting Spotted Fly Catcher which was seen at a top-secret location. Her favourite food is trifle.

Tushar, Design Assistant

Tushar is Stephen’s Design Assistant. He initially trained as an architect /product designer. He was born and bought up on his father’s vineyard in Nasik, India but has never let alcohol pass his lips! He says he is building up to it slowly… (wait ‘til Kashvi is a teenager he will take to it like a duck to water!) He loves chocolate but doesn’t like chocolate cake, but he DOES love fruit cake, (huge sigh as we too all like cake as you may have gathered. We cannot employ cake haters).  Interestingly, Tushar has managed to become an adult without learning to cook, but recently his wife went back to India for a holiday and Tushar had to learn quickly. He now loves cooking and says he can’t see what all the fuss is about (his words Ruchi, not mine!)  He loves anything Sci Fi and would like to visit the world of Lord of the Rings as Gollum!

Asher, Part Time Apprentice

When not working for Stephen Einhorn, Asher is studying computer game programming at university in Bristol. He is a well-known authority on sandwiches and has his own blog where he regularly writes reviews. His opinions are much sought after, and many large sandwich outlets have courted him - his reviews can make or break a company. His favourite filling is meat. Asher’s latest project was a sandwich representing all the countries asked to participate in the G8 Summit. Unfortunately, he was overcome before he got to Japan, and had to be taken home.

Kelly, Media and Communications Manager

Kelly is a big music fan and manages to go to most festivals that are on in the UK during the summer months. She has never been photographed without first being in a field and then holding a beer can.  She is a very experienced camper and always emerges from her tent with full makeup, blow dried hair and the very latest in festival fashion. Next year for Glastonbury Kelly says the key look will be Grunge chic mixed with 80’s vintage pieces and injections of androgynous styling. Think Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch meets Rab C. Nesbitt and Joan Collins with a tight spiral perm - a total beauty must do. You heard it here first!  Kelly keeps her eye on the fashion pulse for us here at Stephen Einhorn. She is super friendly and very helpful, but it is advisable not to ask her for directions, as she is always very adamant that she knows the way and she is ALWAYS wrong! (Her sister will confirm this if necessary).

Nicky

Nicky is an artist turned jewellery maker. She has sold some of her drawings at Tate Modern. Originally from Chester (land of Hollyoaks) she actually grew up in Belgium. She would like you to know that it is not the flat boring country that everyone says it is.  She loves Bon Jovi and Snoop Dog and is praying that one day they will do a collaboration. She likes big quirky glasses (so far we have seen two pairs and they are pretty stylish) She doesn’t like bananas, and has a phobia of anything touching her ears, we are helping her with this by slowly introducing our friendliest pairs of earrings to her and she is doing well. She has an extremely good ‘bedside manner’ with customers and adds an air of calm to our showroom.

Matt

Matt grew up in a circus regularly performing a balancing act alongside a Hippo and a Turtle. At the age of ten he managed to escape from his poorly guarded tent and spent the next twelve years busking around the world with only a Ukulele for company. Then whilst in Tibet he became a full time Sudoku Monk. Upon completion of the ‘first grid level’ eight years later he decided he was amply qualified to become an accountant. Now he spends his free time releasing performing badgers back to the wild. He likes working at Stephen Einhorn's because designer Einhorn watches tennis on his computer and Matt can see it over his shoulder!

Jemi

Jemi is a traditionally trained goldsmith. She feels that she was destined to become a jeweller as she has always been drawn to shiny sparkly things, and because of this is now like a ‘pig in mud’ working here at Einhorn Towers. She is now a fully paid up member of the Einhorn Crew. She has another obsession which we have noticed from day one, and that is SHOES! Apparently Imelda Marcos would be very envious of Jemi’s enormous shoe collection should she happen to see it. She certainly is the first jeweller we have ever employed who comes to work in Manolos. (Take note workshop men, up your game! )Her other hobbies include breeding Yorkshire fighting slugs and training Ninja cats.

Isabelle - Jeweller

Isabelle is a very welcome addition to the Einhorn team. Her flame coloured hair clashes nicely with our new bright green workshop floor. She is an apprentice trained jeweller and is also a lover of DIY. She likes to make her own customised tools, which can sometimes be alarming, but we always have health and safety uppermost in our minds. She likes making jewellery because she likes being very' hands on'. Her favourite film is This Is England and her favourite band is Smashing Pumpkins. Her mother is a milliner and has made Isabelle a leopard skin top hat. We are hoping that one of these fine days she will wear it to work. In her spare time, Isabelle likes to go to pub gigs and to catch snails in her garden.

Heidi - Sales Consultant

Heidi's dad is a ventriloquist and magician. As she grew up she was used to seeing headless puppets around the house which often scared school friends. Her dad's oldest puppet is called Johnny, he is horribly smiley and is now in his sixties. Her Dad still uses him for kids parties. Heidi is obsessed with foxes. She has been collecting them in the shape of pictures, jewellery, (get on it Einhorn!) ceramic animals, clothes etc for years and years. She thinks the reason she may be obsessed is because she grew up in Devon. She has a degree in History of Art and loves The Pre-Raphaelites, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism and feminist art from the 70's. She is a total bookworm and never stops reading. Her flat is full of books including on all the windowsills.

Raj Ashra, Head of Finance