For former model and jewelry designer Michelle Elie, fashion is art and art is fashion. It’s obvious in the fearless way she dresses and her admiration for designers like Comme des Garçons, Delpozo, Viktor & Rolf, Balenciaga, Haider Ackermann, and Rodarte. It’s impossible not to adore and admire her for her refreshing take on fashion – especially when it can sometimes feel so safe and commercialized. As she so profoundly says in her ever inspiring Style Like U interview: “If you’re for everybody, you’re for nobody.”
With it’s low ceilings, exposed wood beams, and undeniable allure, you would think this cozy townhouse calls somewhere like England home. But no. This delightful, three-story home is situated on Warren Place in Cobble Hill in Brooklyn – a street lined with English style cottages intended as affordable housing for laborers in the late 1800s. Couple Elspeth Benoit and David Bevan bought the house and gave it a much needed facelift, ridding the house of walls and stripping plaster to open up the space and reveal it’s original charm. I love the grey color throughout, the mix of tile, the chevron dining room floors and Kelly Wearstler wallpaper!
The moment I saw Tu Es Mon Tresor’s pearl embellished boyfriend jeans, I knew they were a do-it-yourself must. Three dimensional polka dots?! And precious pearls paired with rugged denim?! Opposites definitely attract in this match made in heaven . . .
Designer Sehti Na is dangerously feeding our obsession with dainty and distinctive fine jewelry. Her solar system inspired collection includes delicate bar earrings, star constellation earrings, and asymmetric floating rings – all cast in 14k gold and dotted with bezel set diamonds, pearls and gemstones. I’m also fawning over her gold and diamond safety pin earrings and ‘bite’ rings – signature pieces Sehti carried over from her first line Mine Jewelry. Want, want, need . . .
Artist Amy Bennet doesn’t just stop at creating beautifully complex miniature dioramas. She paints them as still lifes, making them look like tilt shift photographs. WTF, I know. Not only is her method totally mindblowing, her most recent series At the Lakestirs up feelings of nostalgia. Love it all.
