Owning wearable pieces of art is a way to express your individuality and make a statement. When you love what you wear you can feel deep satisfaction and a sense of empowerment and connection. You can also feel good about wearing something of quality that is hand crafted and respects the environment.
I believe that through art anything can be transformed. I also believe in making things that will have value, beauty and style that feel comfortable but fresh and contemporary. Repurposed glass, porcelain, and other found and vintage objects that may seem dated have renewal in each individually hand created piece of jewelry.
Trained as a metalsmith and inspired by nature and classical art and modernist design I am drawn to simplicity, and wearability and make pieces that can be both dressed up or worn daily. Something you can feel great wearing again and again.
Each piece is a composite of recycled sterling silver, repurposed colorful, mostly vintage glass, special beach pebbles and porcelain with imagery of birds and farmland, which become a talisman of what we need to hold onto and protect.
All of my life experiences have been infused with art. As a young girl I watched my mother embroider images of our Hungarian ancestry onto the softest, pure cotton. At my own home I have dug my hands into the earth to create beautiful gardens. I have painted many images and scenes inspired by people and nature. These visceral memories are used to create the fashion pieces you see on this website. Each of my pieces is handmade and designed to create a new look, rich with strength and sensuality, with a powerful and stylish expression.
Organic tools are used in crafting my pieces - my hands are the instruments that create shawls, tunics and tops that harmonize with every body. I work with silk as a base which is both feminine and delicate, yet strong and empowering. When I add soft wools and plant fibers they married through a wholly organic and physical process called wet-felting. Once joined, silk and wool behave as the wearer does, ready for an evening on the town or star gazing from the porch. All of my creations can be worn multiple ways and are one size fits all.
I hope to inspire others to appreciate their own style and beauty when they wear my creations. Welcome to Andrea LeBeau Designs!
Driven by her belief in a universal language of shape and form, Toronto jewellery designer Anne Sportun looks to nature for inspiration. Anne translates the subtle beauty of organic asymmetry into her work. The combination of traditional gold-smithing techniques with Anne’s design sensibility brings a sophisticated dichotomy to her pieces. In her work and in her life, she strives to combine the precious with the everyday. Awarded for her excellence in craftsmanship and contemporary design, her work is collected by those who share Anne’s vision.
Annie Turbin Designs was founded from a need to find sophisticated and elegant, wearable clothing. Founder/ Designer Annie Turbin discovered the need to stand out from the crowd while being on stage as an internationally touring singer and musician. Her desire to merge function and fashion lead her to start making her own creations. Thus began a never-ending quest for the finest cloth, the freshest colors, and the most relaxed yet refined outfits.
Rachael Levine is a textiles artist with a focus on Shibori and fabric dying. She has been a working artist since Fall of 2014 and graduated with a BFA in Fashion Design from Columbia College Chicago. Rachael's love of clothing construction and manipulating textiles has blossomed into an art-to-wear collection called ARAE. She works with different kinds of silk and cotton gauze to create her various styles of Kimonos, scarves, and tops. She also works with boiled wool, which she Shibori dyes then cuts and sews into soft accessories such as gloves, scarves, and hats.
Rachael creates each garment and accessory, she hand dyes, cuts, and sews all one-of-a-kind pieces and most of the collection. Waste from cutting is kept and separated by size and color for limited Zero Waste releases such as Scrunchies, Braided Headbands, and even our Shimmy style. Being based in the high desert means taking advantage of the dry air and hot sun all year round. All of our silk and wool is hang dried outside, by the natural sun and air.
Lesley Armstrong's passion for weaving is sustained by “endless delight in the physical nature of this medium—you are building cloth from humble little strands of yarn and the element of surprise is always present when you shift and push the weaving and finishing limits.” Armstrong acknowledges that the colours and textures of a Maritime environment play a key role in the choice of the subtle, restrained hues that she uses. Seaweed, rocks, tidal pools, moss, and woodlands are some of the sources of inspiration for her work. Equally fascinating are possibilities offered by New and innovative yarns from Japan, Europe, and South America offer when they are manipulated in the weaving and finishing processes.Armstrong Textiles designs and produces fashions and interior furnishings that are sold in apparel boutiques, art museum shops, craft galleries, and interior design stores. The fashions, which lean toward a European design sensibility, include accessories such as scarves and wraps and a select apparel line including tops, tunics, and jackets made in collaboration with Halifax fashion designers Kate Delmage and Meghan Marentette.
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celebrate the ecclectic minds that shift the present, those that create the future
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we want to make apparel that is loyal and reliable.
enriching, accenting, fun.
apparel that whispers
“work with me, play with me, i am here when you need me,
no pressure’’
take on the journey!
we are all….
artists in orbit
Primarily self-taught, I created my first collection in 2015 out of my Boston apartment’s dining room (where this image was taken). I experimented, learned along the way, and built a community of mentors. In a short time, I decided to pursue jewelry full-time.
My work is inspired by simplicity. A less is more approach. I find beauty in negative space, clean simple lines, and a clear focal point. I love vintage items, second-hand clothing, old structures. I’m drawn to the imperfections, the marks of use, and the feeling of a history. For that reason, I like my work to look like it was handcrafted because it is. I intentionally put scratches in my work, and almost always oxidize pieces because the patina just gets better with time.
Other elements I tend to gravitate towards are nature. More specifically, mountain scapes, the night sky, stars, and the moon. Seeing nature always makes me feel grounded and like I can breathe a little deeper. The ability to make jewelry is truly an honor. To know someone will lay a piece on their body and look at it throughout the day is an awesome responsibility. I inspire for my work to invoke the same feeling of groundedness and beauty that the mountains, night sky, and the moon gives me.
Present day, my business is in it’s 7th year and my studio is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
Austin Titus is jewelry designer from Richmond Va.
She finds a beautiful juxtaposition between the industrial elements of living in a historical city contrasted with the natural world around her.
When she is not in her studio she enjoys walking the city streets with her dog, Lola.
