The Founder

I could not find
jewelry that felt
like me.

So I locked myself in my bedroom, picked up a sketchbook, and spent months drawing rings until 3am, with no experience, no training, and no idea if it would work.

4–5

Months of late nights

100+

Sketches before the first piece

Adam Andrew Silva

Founder · Amsterdam · Born 1998

In His Own Words

I have always been intrigued by the world around me. People, nature, the way the ocean sounds at night. From a young age I was picking up everything, absorbing how things looked, how they felt, what they meant. And jewelry was always part of that. I wore it before I understood why.

What I could never find was a brand that felt like me. Something that spoke to the way I see the world, free, intentional, with a bit of edge. So I decided to build it myself.

I locked myself in my bedroom at my parents place. Hours became days. Days became months. I watched YouTube tutorials until 3am, sketched hundreds of examples, failed hundreds of times, and kept going. Every late night was a step closer to something that finally felt right.

The whole process took four to five months of trial and error. I wanted everything to be authentic, drawn by hand, with a pencil, on paper. No shortcuts. No templates. Just what I actually saw in my head.

I was born in Amsterdam. My roots are Portuguese. Two cities, two cultures, two ways of seeing beauty. And there was only one way to give Wild Youth the best of both, design it where I grew up, craft it where my family comes from.

The atelier in Portugal has been making jewelry for over a century. A father passing his craft to his children, then to theirs. When my designs landed in their hands, I knew they were in the right place. Wild Youth is Dutch precision and Portuguese soul, in every single piece.

Wild Youth exists because I believed that the right piece of jewelry makes a man feel more like himself. Not less. Not like he is following someone else's idea of style. Like himself.

That is what I built this for. That is what I still build it for.