Here at our self-proclaimed world’s cutest research lab we throw lots of things away, because honestly most of our tests don’t work out. All of our fails are actually wins, because every wrong answer goes towards figuring out the right solutions for our designs. Some of our trash is actually kind of pretty. Above are [...]
Author Archives: diana
0Date: May. 4, 2012
Say “Hi” to my ladybug pins. Here’s the story about how they are made. I wanted the ladybug pins to look as realistic as possible so I started out with specimens of real ladybugs. An expert jewelry maker in the New York City jewelry district made a mold of the specimens and created red wax [...]
Date: Feb. 6, 2012
It’s almost fashion week again. I’ve been attending since 2005, I’m getting a little jaded, and I’m getting fewer front row invites. I’ve been thinking back to the excitement of my first fashion week show. I was nervous bordering on terrified, wearing a borrowed outfit I couldn’t afford and sitting front row at the Project [...]
Date: Dec. 13, 2011
Surprisingly there aren’t a lot of leather remnants that are fortune cookie colored. So we make monthly trips around the garment district to pick out leather and keep it in storage for our next run of cookies. While we hit the usual wholesale leather stores, we’ve also found a few dealers who resell leather remnants [...]
Date: Nov. 17, 2011
I’m excited about my new Ladybug Pin collection. I wanted the pins to look as realistic as possible so that it will look like the wearer has a real ladybug crawling on their shirt. The pins are modeled after 11 different species in the Coccinellidae or ladybug family (pictures of the real bugs are below). [...]
Date: Oct. 24, 2011
Here’s a quick little video to demonstrate the Jack Frost Scarf in action. It’s not cold enough in NYC to demo it outside, so I used an ice tray. You can buy a scarf in our shop.
Date: Oct. 21, 2011
It took me three years to perfect the Fibonacci Scarf pattern, and it takes hundreds of hours to hand knit one scarf. So I brought my Fibonacci Scarf pattern to the Textile Design Lab (TDL) in New Zealand to see if they would be able to manufacture them. They were able to program my design [...]
Date: Oct. 4, 2011
I’m getting ready for my next photo shoot and realized I forgot to post photos from the last one. So here’s a look back at our Laser Lace photo shoot: When fashion photographer (and friend) Ricardo Louis and I were walking around Prospect Park scouting a location for our photo shoot, we decided to leave [...]
Date: Jul. 21, 2011
I’m not one for glamor shots. But I discovered my narcissistic side when Jonathan Monaghan resident artist at MakerBot 3-D scanned me for their “New York Notables” event… and then was kind enough let me get 3-D scanned again. Scan with hair up, scan with hair down, scan with glasses, I even tried to curl [...]
Date: Jul. 21, 2011
Thank you nice customers who have been pre-ordering Laser Lace Tees and Tops! As a special surprise, artist Katherine Moon designed a trio of buttons for me to give away with all of my pre-orders. We just sent the art off to the button making factory, but here’s a photoshop rendering of what they will [...]