Coveted Interviews
Inside the studio…. gr.dano
Putting together an outfit, building a wardrobe is the part of the fashion industry I am familiar with. The actual design process and environment where clothing is conceived is something of a mystery. How would you design a collection? Where do you begin? gr.dano is a San Francisco design team who let us have a [...]
Interview : Obsessive Consumption
In this day and age of consumer spending being a core component of our economy and personal debt being higher than it’s ever been. It’s hard to visualize just how we have incorporated consumerism into everyday reality. Kate Bingaman-Burt has found a way to personalize and communicate her consumption habits through art. Her career begun [...]
Interview with Mori & Mimosa
Mori & Mimosa are a Swedish design duo Christina Wemming and Sara Engberg. They remind me of an ice cream swirl, two distinctive elements made into one. Christina designs the clothes and Sara designs the jewelery, yet they work together so well. Here they talk about working together, and traveling to Japan…
The Coveted: How did [...]
Inside the Bubble…
Style Bubble is one of those blogs, over time, I become more and more fond of. I initially started reading it last year, since I discovered you can type in any subject and “blog” into Google, and you have a plethora of blog worlds, brimming with information. I began my fashion obsession, not with [...]
Genevieve Primavera
Tomorrow, Genevieve Primavera will be showing it’s Spring 2008 Collection at San Francisco Fashion Week. Mary Elizabeth Primavera first made contact with The Coveted in response to the blogger controversy and invited us along into SF Fashion Week. Here she let’s us in on her thoughts about fashion, family, and overcoming chanllenges…
The Coveted: What have [...]
Emerging Designer: Naik Fur
Sacramento, California is place that I think of as being our State Capitol, home of the Governator, the place that gets hot in the summer… gateway to Gold Country and Lake Tahoe… I would not think that some of the most thoughtful artistiscally creative clothing would be made there. Naik Fur is a clothing line [...]
Coveted Interview: Dan Martensen
One of the reasons why I love smaller magazines like Preen, Lula, Purple, is to see fresh talent at work, and usually they use nice paper…. One photographer I noticed in Preen was Dan Martensen… The Sonic Youth spread is just amazing… set in a very ordinary place, it looks so futuristic [...]
Meant to Inspire: Naja Conrad-Hansen
I first came across Naja Conrad-Hansen from IQONS. Of course her bold graphic style just drew me in. Looking through her website, I just got the most intense feeling.. mixed with a wonderful humor, (’Yes, I can see into the future’) the only way I can articulate, dark optimism, like rock music, sexy chic, and [...]
Sewing for the People
Today Milkshake Chocolate launched the Summer 07 issue, which is lovely, because I contributed to this issue with an interview with Artist Michael Swaine. It was my first story for something I don’t publish myself, so, it was kind of scary, but… he is such an interesting guy. Over the years, has produced a interesting [...]
Coveted Interview: Hannah Stouffer
Hannah Stouffer is an Bay Area artist/illustrator. I first came across her work at the Capsule event last month, I instantly loved the opulence and richness of her prints. Looking at her website, it’s noted that she’s quite prolific, and I have seen her work in a number of places, the New York Times, Coca-Cola, [...]
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