Katherine Evander & Cesar Evander shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Katherine & Cesar, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about your customers?
The most surprising thing we’ve learned is that our collectors don’t want to be recognized for wearing luxury instead they want to be asked about it.
They’re not drawn to logos or instant legibility. They choose pieces that create curiosity, slow the gaze, and invite conversation. For them, luxury isn’t about being seen at a glance, but about controlling when and how the story is revealed.
An Evander piece doesn’t announce status, it creates a pause. And in that pause, meaning, intimacy, and individuality emerge.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
We are Katherine and Cesar Evander, the wife and husband creatives behind Evander Miami.
Evander started very personally. While planning our wedding, we struggled to find jewelry that felt meaningful, pieces that carried a sense of story rather than just style. Katherine, who comes from a creative background, began sketching designs that felt sculptural and intentional. Cesar, with a background in anthropology and storytelling, became obsessed with how objects carry memory, emotion, and identity. Somewhere between those two perspectives, Evander was created.
What we love most about what we do is creating creations that carry unique stories. Our jewelry is designed to spark curiosity, invite conversation, and feel deeply personal to the person wearing it. Everything is designed and crafted in Miami, made in small runs or as one-of-a-kind pieces, using solid champagne gold and thoughtfully chosen natural gemstones.
Right now, we’re focused on growing Evander as a place for modern collectors, people who value beauty, individuality, and story over trends. At its heart, Evander Miami is about creating objects that live with you, mark moments, and quietly become part of your life.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
Before we could fully see ourselves, we saw each other.
Katherine saw in Cesar a natural storyteller, someone who could trace invisible threads between history, culture, objects, and people. She recognized his rare ability to notice meaning where others see fragments, to turn observation into narrative, and to give language to emotion. Long before Evander existed, she trusted that this way of seeing the world was not just a passion, but a gift meant to be shared.
Cesar, in turn, saw in Katherine a quiet but powerful creativity. He saw how shapes came naturally to her, how forms, lines, and textures emerged instinctively from nature, memory, and intuition. He watched her translate leaves, movement, and organic forms into design, and understood that her connection to jewelry wasn’t learned, but innate.
In many ways, Evander is the place where those two recognitions meet. It exists because we believed in each other’s way of seeing before the world ever did and because love, at its best, is learning to hold up a mirror until the other finally recognizes themselves.
Do you remember a time someone truly listened to you?
We remember it not as a single moment, but as a pattern that kept repeating.
When we began talking about Evander, about what luxury meant to us, about slowness, intention, and resisting the pull of mass-market sameness, we expected to explain ourselves. Instead, people listened. And more than that, they recognized themselves in what we were saying.
Collectors, artists, friends, even strangers would pause and say, “That’s exactly how I feel.” They spoke about the fatigue of interchangeable luxury, of objects that are beautiful but empty, everywhere yet nowhere at once. What surprised us was how often the conversation turned into a shared belief rather than a pitch.
Those moments made us realize that Evander wasn’t something we were imposing onto the world it was something already waiting to be named. Our collectors weren’t just listening to us; they were hearing their own values reflected back. In that exchange, something rare happened: we felt understood, and so did they.
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
We believe something that many people still struggle to agree with: that luxury has very little to do with price, and even less to do with logos.
For us, luxury begins with design, storytelling, and emotional resonance. It lives in how a piece feels, what it carries, and how closely it aligns with the person wearing it. A logo can signal status, but it can’t create meaning. That comes from intention, from form, and from the quiet recognition of “this feels like me.”
What often sets us apart is placing the person before the brand. We believe an object should serve identity, not overwrite it. True luxury doesn’t announce who made it instead it reveals who you are.
Not everyone agrees with this. But those who do tend to recognize it immediately. And Evander exists for them.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
We hope they say that we created objects of adornment that outlived us.
That the pieces we designed were worn, loved, and eventually passed on, not as valuables, but as vessels of memory. That each object carried stories layered over time: of milestones, of hands that once held them, of lives fully lived.
If we’re remembered at all, we hope it’s as people who understood that beauty can hold meaning, and that objects can become storytellers themselves. In the end, it wouldn’t be about us, it would be about the next generation, adding their own chapters to something we began.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://evandermiami.com/
- Instagram: @evandermiami
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evandermiami/
