Interview with Officially-Licensed Mucha Jeweler Kelly Morgen
By Jean MartinGBACG Finery Editor How did you start making jewelry? What was your inspiration in starting out? I originally fell in love with jewelry making while I was studying abroad in Florence, Italy during my junior year in college. I immediately realized that this was it: here was exactly what I wanted to do with the rest of my […]
Designing a Wedding Dress for Toni from Luann
by Philip Gust. Published in the November/December 2016 issue of Finery. When cartoonist Greg Evans decided that two characters from his popular Luann comic strip were getting married, he needed a wedding dress for the bride, Toni Daytona, who would be marrying Luann’s brother Brad. Greg and his daughter Karen came up with the idea of a contest for fans […]
Edith Head: Star Costumer
by Kali Pappas, First published for the January/February 2012 issue of Finery Despite her long studio career and a stunning cache of major awards (including a record-setting 8 Oscars and 35 Oscar nominations), costume designer Edith Head is a star whose name isn’t widely recognizable. Her work, however, is instantly familiar to virtually everyone. She’s the woman responsible for the […]
