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Heaven on Eairth
“I feel good about Eairth. It’s small right now but I think the formula is good,” she remarks with confidence. “It’s connected to all these elements that are very real, pure, and fun; from the weavers, the farmers, the tribes. Once it starts growing their communities will grow. It’s a nice system.”
Off The Cuff – GoGo Jewelry Gets It Right
“Make me look sassy, girl,” jewelry designer Gogo Borgerding exhorted when she learned I was writing a profile on her and her line, GoGo Jewelry. But anyone who has ever seen Gogo’s pieces, ever observed the designer herself, with her cute hair and multihued outfits, knows that to portray her accurately means one can’t do anything but. For Sass zips through all things GoGo. To walk into Gogo Borgerding’s uptown New Orleans shop, GoGo Jewelry, is like walking into a candy store.
The Anatomy of Gian
Fashion will always be an interpretive art. Its apprentices can be found in the most unlikely of places. My eyes traced for building # 3296, Unit 4D; it was a rainy, silvery day, and the uneven pavement led me to the tiny studio of Gian Romano. It was like walking into the room of someone’s [...]
On Dylan Kawahara and the Elegance of Destruction
It was nearly eight years ago that I first met Dylan Kawahara. At that time she was only a freshman in our high school fashion design class, but it was already clear that the physical size of this petit young lady belied an air of class and maturity that even at age 15 drew the [...]