Iconic jewellery designer Deborah Thomas descends from three generations of goldsmith and jewellery makers. Coming from humble beginnings as a little girl, she spent numerous summer vacations in her late Grandmother’s goldsmith’s workshop. Watching for fun her Granny making jewellery and dealing with her numerous clients. Sometimes to keep her busy, she would make jewellery for fun out the scrap materials left over in the workshop. After high school, she then proceeded to study and achieved an Honours degree, B Eng (hons) in Civil Engineering in London. For Deborah, construction and design has always been a fascination. Her passion had always been in jewellery and with this embedded in her soul, she then proceeded to study Gemmology and it is with these combination of skills that makes her creative mind quite remarkable.

All through Deborah’s life as a self financed university student, affording luxury or designer items was never a priority as this was something she could not afford. It was since then she made up her mind that she would create a designer range of jewellery and accessories for likeminded individuals at an affordable price. Her famous quote is that ‘ Everyone deserves a bit of luxury’. Hence she founded the brand CHIC Elegance in October 1999.

After a decade of remarkable trying and challenging events in January 2009, she founded the Deborah Thomas Foundation. This foundation will campaign and fund mainly Education for all children all around the world with a view of assisting towards various skills initiatives and reducing poverty in children. Deborah believes that children are the bedrock of our society and education will motivate the children and consequently reduce poverty tomorrow.