Meet Syrine Somma | Founder and Designer Ruth Heritage

We had the good fortune of connecting with Syrine Somma and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Syrine, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
For years, I followed a path that made sense on paper business school, entrepreneurship, strategy. But something always felt off. I’ve been an artist since I was a child, but I had pushed that part of myself aside for a long time.

Starting Ruth Heritage was my way of coming back to that. I needed to reconnect with creativity, identity, and a sense of emotional truth not just in my personal life, but in what I was building professionally.

It was also a way to bring my daughter into the process and build something together. She inspires many of the pieces, and I wanted her to grow up seeing what it looks like to create with intention, not pressure.

I started it to create something lasting and meaningful..

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Ruth Heritage is a jewelry house rooted in storytelling, memory, and craftsmanship. Each piece carries a name, a story, and a sense of identity inspired by women. We don’t follow trends. We create with intention, in small quantities, with meaning behind every detail..

Ours is a quiet kind of luxury designed for women who value depth, beauty with soul, and pieces that feel truly personal.

Was it easy? Not at all. It took years to give myself permission to lead with emotion and creativity. I had to unlearn the pressure of speed, growth at all costs, and external validation.

What I’m most proud of? The way women connect to what I create. When someone tells me, “It feels like it was made for me” that matters more than any number ever could.

If there’s one thing I want people to know, it’s this: what I make is built to last. In feeling, in quality, in the way it stays with you quietly, but with meaning.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
If a close friend came to visit for a week, we’d start with one of my favorite rituals: a sunrise walk along the beach. There’s something almost sacred about that moment in Miami the light, the quiet, the sense that the day hasn’t been touched yet. It’s a feeling I never get tired of.

I love this city so much, I’d probably have their whole week planned.

I like starting the day in a relaxed way. One day, it would be Pilates, followed by a stop at Pura Vida for something fresh.

Another morning, we’d stop at Yann Couvreur Café for a Parisian-style brunch before getting lost in the streets of Wynwood.

I’d plan a few hours at The Standard Spa breakfast by the bay, some quiet time, and a treatment if we feel like it.

For beach days, we’d go to The Setai. It’s calm, never too crowded.

On the culture side, I’d include a visit to Superblue or The Rubell Museum.

We’d spend an afternoon on Lincoln Road, a stop I always include a little shopping… and then head to Pizzette, my husband’s favorite pizza spot.

In the evenings, I love taking people to the Champagne Bar at the Four Seasons it’s intimate, stylish, and never loud. Some nights, we’d stop at the Living Room at Faena for a drink, depending on the mood.

For dinner, it depends sometimes Cipriani, sometimes something more lowkey like Sunny’s or Gold Standard Sushi an experience I always recommend.

We’d probably end the week with a sunset boat ride. No matter how many times I do it, it still feels like something special.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
This is a long list but if I had to choose, I’d start with the women in my family. My grandmothers, my mother, and now my daughter. Their strength, taste, and quiet resilience shaped the way I see beauty, tradition, and what it means to create something with soul.

I’d also mention the close circle of friends and clients who believed in Ruth Heritage from day one who wore the first pieces not just to support me, but because they truly connected to the meaning behind them.

I’m also deeply grateful to my husband and my son, who supported our project with unwavering love and patience. Their presence reminds me every day that building something beautiful is never a solo act.

And finally,a shoutout to the creative spark that stayed alive in me all these years quietly waiting for the right moment to grow.

Website: https://www.ruthheritage.com/

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