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Category Archives: Designer Profile
Q&A with b.i.t.s. founder Cindy Gellersen
A few months ago when Cindy Gellersen and I first began exchanging emails regarding a feature I was preparing for her luxury LA handbag line BAGSTIL, there was a gap in our correspondence. When our email exchange resumed Cindy informed … Continue reading
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Tagged American-Made, b.i.t.s, Bagstil, Cindy Gellersen, Horseback Riding, Horses, Made in Los Angeles
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Q&A with Victoria Tane and Special Offer!
Tucked away in her Nashua, New Hampshire studio, Victoria Tane spends most days mulling over discarded objects trying to imagine new uses for some of society’s abandoned treasures. She has spent the majority of the past five decades designing upcycled … Continue reading
Q&A with Cindy Gellersen: Founder of BAGSTIL
Growing up in Leipzig, East Germany when the socialist state still existed pre- “fall of the wall,” Cindy Gellersen knew she was destined to be a designer despite the implausibility of the occupation at the time. The destruction of the wall … Continue reading
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Tagged American Made Chic Bus Tour, Bagstil, Cindy Gellersen, Designer Profile
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A Factory in Brooklyn: Martin Greenfield Clothiers
The crux of the American dream has always rested on the premise that upward mobility from the bottom rungs of the ladder is entirely possible. While the media highlights the current wage gap disparity and questions whether upward mobility still … Continue reading
United States From Above
Equipped with their Nikon lenses, Brent Yaggi and Sarah Hicks soared 2,000 feet above the U.S. in a Cessna 172 during a three year period to capture these breathtaking aerial views. Currently residing in Denver, Colorado, the engaged couple makes … Continue reading
Revolution: America’s Snowboard Factory
Nestled at the base of Mt. Timpanogos in Orem, Utah, Revolution Snowboard Manufacturing has made a name for itself by completing all of its designs, prototypes and manufacturing in house, in the U.S. With some of the industry’s leading professionals … Continue reading
Mettlers American Mercantile
For over three decades Lou Mettler has curated sophisticated style and served as a pointman for conceptualizing innovative retail strategies for fashion giants across the globe including Polo Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Joseph Abboud, along with serving as one … Continue reading
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Tagged American Heritage, Lou Mettler, Mettlers American Mercantile
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Confetti System
“Between the two of them, Julie Ho and Nicholas Andersen had designed clothing, jewelry, movie sets, music videos, and Martha Stewart shoots, plus dabbled in painting, drawing, pattern-making, sewing, and crocheting before teaming up creatively in 2008. Ho had even … Continue reading