Anzie, Jacyln and Joanna Stein

Founders

Anzie

“La Vie en Couleur.”

Creating jewelry as a means to celebrate the richness of life, Anzie Stein and her daughter Jaclyn started their company Anzie Jewelry after Anzie’s husband was diagnosed at an early age with advanced colon cancer. The family designed a line of brightly stoned bracelets christened The Lifesaver Bracelets to raise funds for colon cancer awareness, and thus in 1999, the company was founded on the idea of creation as a healing process and continued on after husband and father Barry Stein’s recovery.

Before her move into the jewelry industry, Anzie studied fine art and was an artist as well as an art teacher while her business savvy daughter Jaclyn attended jewelry classes at FIT to nurture her creativity. This combination of aesthetic eye and a business sense, as well as a love of giving back to the community is likely what has propelled Anzie Jewelry from a small family-owned business to one that sells everywhere from independently curated fine jewelry stores to Saks on Fifth Avenue.

Working out of Montreal, Canada, Anzie, Jaclyn and now the younger daughter Joanna are women that create for women. Women that know that a typical day can involve taking responsibility for little lives in dirty diapers while running to meetings and work events. “[Our jewelry] is light and comfortable. Versatility is important and we want to wear our jewelry every day,” Jaclyn explains. And though their line includes stunners studded with chunks of topaz and amethyst, they love creating jewelry for an affordable price. “We offer more silver and slightly less gold, daintier pieces as opposed to extravagant pieces that you wouldn’t wear as often, and colored gemstones instead of diamonds.”

The tight-knit family loves the outdoors and is warmingly eager to spend extra time together despite working in the same company. “Skiing, walking, snow-shoeing, and playing tennis are my favorite things to do, because these activities bring our family together and help us escape from our work,” Joanna tells us. We can’t imagine such a harmonious household not creating something equally as beautiful.