Interview with Narrative Designer Marianna Barksdale

"I guess what drives me is I like to complete the idea, I like to create the narrative. I guess it’s the same way someone is driven to make a film, they want to convey an idea. They think they have a new way of telling a story, or a new vision, or a different way of saying the same thing that someone has said already. Somebody told me once that there’s only 39 stories..."
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Interview with Radical Designer Logan Neitzel

"I just kind of let it come to me naturally. In two days I can figure out a whole collection, or sometimes it'll take a month and a half before I narrow it down. But yeah I dream. Especially when its creating collections and things like that. I'll wake up in the middle of the night and a piece is finished and I just have to get it out of my head- otherwise I'll either forget it or it'll just like drive me crazy..."
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Interview with Haute Couture Jewelry Architect Carla Labat

I think people are interesting when you know where they come from. I think its important even individually to understand where one comes from. So when you're looking at the kind of jewelry that we make, there’s a providence to each kind of piece of passementerie. Some of the things I buy are from certain special vendors who have their own family history...
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Interview with Conceptualist Master Amy Cheung

I'm so un-Hong Kong. I also do massive pieces, so large that only museums can showcase them. People in general ask me why I create art, which is so hard to sell. But I don't really think about a plan B. I don't create a piece with the thought of whether I can store it or sell it. That’s not my objective or agenda. Maybe that makes me a little different...
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