Michelle Obama wore Gilan hoop earrings while speaking to students during a Grammy Museum musical workshop in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 21, 2016 in Washington, D.C
The family story and its love affair with luxury begins in the town of Gilan, where four generations ago, the great- great- great grandmother of the founders had designed and sewn tailor-made dresses for the Ottoman pashas.
It picks up again, in 1980, where the brothers Muharrem and Ferhan Gilan opened the first 1.5 sqm. jewellery store. Their hereditary passion for design and luxury led them to move to Istanbul and to set the basis of Gilan which is a world known jewellery house among socialites and the affluent today.
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