MILAN — For Paola Sasplugas the 10th anniversary of her jewelry brand PDPaola has offered a moment of retrospection.

The business she launched with her brother Humbert, who serves as chief executive officer of the company, has grown to cover 42 markets through 45 stores under the PDPaola banner and 2,000 stockists, reaching a maturity stage.

Yet Sasplugas took some time to pause and look back at her beginnings — and some more. Committed not to leaving her inner child behind in celebrating what she has achieved so far, she wanted to mark the company’s milestone by paying tribute to “the wholeness of the woman, accepting and embracing all her nuances,” she said.

She was inspired by her young daughter. In their role games and reenactments of the Catalan tale of Sant Jordi at

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