Interviews | Crystals from Swarovski - Part 2

April 6 · 2018July 12 · 2018

Life’s a Beach

By Crystals from Swarovski

5 minutes with holsterBen Nothling and Natalie Miller, the couple behind holster, appear to have it all: Two lovely children and a successful footwear brand based in the idyllic Noosa Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. ...

March 30 · 2018July 12 · 2018

Putting the Fun Into Fashion and Luxury Into Athleisure

By Crystals from Swarovski

5 minutes with Juicy CoutureJuicy Couture is the proof that athleisure has been around for longer than we think. Launched by Gela Nash and Pamela Skaist-Levy back in 1997, their signature velour tracksuit was originally custom-designed ...

March 27 · 2018July 30 · 2018

No-Fail Style

By Crystals from Swarovski

5 minutes with Ultracor’s Melissa Pizzuto Ultracor is the young US brand with grown-up ambitions for high-end athleisure. Key to this is the fresh point of view offered by its designer Melissa Pizzuto, who is driven by the bel ...

March 14 · 2018July 12 · 2018

Virtually Brilliant

By Crystals from Swarovski

5 minutes with KappaIt’s hard to believe that such a forward-looking brand could be over a century old, but the label that was to become Kappa was founded in Turin, Italy, in 1916 by Abramo Vital under the name Maglificio Calzificio To ...

March 2 · 2018July 12 · 2018

A Good Time to be a Gymnast

By Crystals from Swarovski

Back in the days when her daughter was a young gymnast performing gravity-defying acrobatics, resourceful mom Sylvia Pichler borrowed a friend’s sewing machine and created a bespoke leotard for her offspring. Fast-forward 21 ye ...

February 27 · 2018July 12 · 2018

Being the Best

By Crystals from Swarovski

5 minutes with NO KA’OILaunched out of a combined love of beauty, fashion and wellness, NO KA’OI is a design system boasting the tagline Style, Energy & Power. The story goes that the line came about because the dynamic per ...

February 22 · 2018August 7 · 2018

Shay-ke it Normann!

By Crystals from Swarovski

Behind the scenes of the Swarovski Athleisure Collection SS18 dance-offSwarovski’s new #athleisurebeatsvideo campaign is kicking up some serious energy in the fashion industry, fusing the worlds of glamour-wear with active- ...

December 16 · 2017August 7 · 2018

Show Your Feet Some Love!

By Crystals from Swarovski

How often do we read that it’s the simplest ideas that go on to become the biggest business successes? This is a tale of a genius idea rooted in an everyday object: who knew that the humble shoelace could be reinvented and go stratospher ...

December 6 · 2017August 7 · 2018

Love at First Sniff

By Crystals from Swarovski

Perfumery is both a science and an art form—connoisseurs agree that a memorable scent should be evocative, but not overpowering. In the home-fragrance arena, where a perfumed candle can overwhelm a room in moments, achieving a sub ...

November 27 · 2017August 7 · 2018

The Power of Killer Heels, but Without the Pain

By Crystals from Swarovski

Every fashionista’s dream is the perfect shoe that will take her from daytime meetings to chic cocktails, pain free. (“Killer heels” is apt, indeed…) Well, the dream has been fulfilled, because ...

October 21 · 2017July 12 · 2018

Graziano Ricami’s New-wave Embroidery

By Crystals from Swarovski

Galleria Giordani is the ambitious offshoot of parent company Graziano Ricami, the Italian couture fabric expert famous for its out-of-this-world embroidery techniques.” template=”/var/www/crystals-from-swarovs ...

September 19 · 2017August 7 · 2018

Alicia in Wonderland

By Crystals from Swarovski

“Everything begins in my imagination… I have always had my own wonderland!”Polish-born Alicia Stanska is a rarity in any industry—an accomplished designer and artist producing a saleable commodity withou ...