My passions are for jewelry and design. While the past seven years of my creative life have been dominated by architecture, jewelry has crept into my life and captured my heart (and evenings) over the last years. It has made me realize that the handcrafted object is something of great value that we
Christian Lacroix is one of the most influential couturiers of the last twenty years. His over-the-top, sumptuous ensembles have come to symbolize the decadence and glamour of the 1980s.
As a young man, Lacroix was very interested in European fashion history; he initially wanted to be a museum c
Roger Vivier was one of the most iconic shoe designers of the fifties and sixties. He first came to prominence for the elegant stilettos he designed for Christian Dior's New Look of 1947, and was employed by the couture house until the early 1960s. His Pilgrim shoe for Yves Saint Laurent is perhaps