Call them jazzed-up friendship bracelets or modernist beadwork, Julie Rofman’s colorful cuffs reinvent hippie tropes—even if the Northern California studio overlooking the ocean where she makes them might suggest otherwise. With Andrew Bird or NPR streaming and a horse grazing next door, the Massachusetts native draws on her background as a painter to create intricately-patterned pieces with subtly shifting shades and finishes. This attention to …
In a corporate world of sales and strategies, marketing maverick Ivy Ross opts instead to chart success with an approach that has pioneered paradigm shifts in advertising. From spearheading covert creative operations for Mattel to stirring up merchandising mojo for Gap’s iconic ‘Black Magic, Black Pants’ ad campaign, Ross fuels concepts through ‘mental grazing’; a term coined by Ross to describe a creative diet of …
When The Future Perfect owner David Alhadeff met Lara Knutson five years ago, he described the attraction to her work as “immediate and visceral, like a moth to a flame.” Comprised of reflective glass fabrics, the shimmering surfaces have that effect on most, especially when Alhadeff showed them at his Noho store recently during NYC’s design week. Alhadeff gave the Pratt grad (she holds degrees …
