Melissa Fok arrived in the world of jewellery with a sidestep from fashion merchandising, after a very personal commission to bring new life to an old pair of her mother’s earrings. The process of reworking cherished heirlooms into a ring ignited a passion to encapsulate memories in jewellery design, spurring her along the pathway that took the Parsons School of Design alumni on to a GIA qualification and eventually her own brand No Thirty Three.