Misha Zakhalov was born and trained in the former Soviet Union. After honing his design skills at the Odessa School of Art, he came to America in 1990. Specializing in the challenging enamel processing methods in which he was trained, he immediately began working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum Collection Catalog, reproducing famous and intricate Faberge Egg designs. He soon began creating original jewelry. Misha has mastered, thanks to his classical training and inexhaustible creativity, the mixture of freshness, versatility and forward thinking so important to fashion jewelry design.