Posted on May 8 · 2018July 12 · 2018 Jewelry That Does More Than Sparkle By Crystals from Swarovski These sisters don’t just talk the talk, they walk the talk: California-based Patti and Lizanne Pagliei not only create jewelry under their Waxing Poetic brand that is handmade, beautiful and full of meaning, it&rsqu ...
Posted on May 4 · 2018July 12 · 2018 French Jewelry Chic – C’est Magique! By Crystals from Swarovski When Lili Chen launched her Bohm Paris jewelry brand in 2016, it was her second brand—she had already cut her teeth on an earlier range, IKITA, using enamel, glass, feathers and semi-precious stones, but she wanted to create a jewelr ...
Posted on 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. ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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- ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...
Posted on 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 ...