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March 16, 2015 Prachi Gupta

She won’t go searching for that umbrella you left at a restaurant or the set of keys you misplaced last week, but Brooklyn artist Hannah Rawe will help you reflect on some of the objects you’ve loved and lost. Since mid-December, Rawe has set up a tiny shop at Giti Fashion in Park Slope called […]

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March 4, 2015 Prachi Gupta

While most of us dream about bumping into our personal heroes, few of us would be prepared to make a lasting impression on them. Not Swoon, however. The artist recently met women’s rights icon Gloria Steinem and handed her the perfect gift: a ring depicting the female clitorus (Note: this not the same thing as […]

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August 7, 2014 Marina Galperina

Concept jewelry by industrial designer Naomi Kizhne really pushes the notion of functional ornamental objects. These accessories are actually micro energy cells encased in biopolymer. They “collect” kinetic energy from your body. There is the Blinker, “an elegant gold shell that cups the arc of our nose” and extracts energy every time you blink. Another, decidedly more intrusive-looking […]

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May 28, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

At last, something delicate and feminine for the refined masturbator. This lovely jewelry collection also doubles (quadruples?) as a set of sex toys. Fed up with the phallic-shaped dildo’s dominion over the sex toy industry, a team of female Italian designers created Ménage à Quatre to offer independent women a hands-on approach to self stimulation. […]

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