She has had her very own sales space for her line vintage clothing collection, Eulogy, in Lula B’s Oak Cliff when you consider that she becomes 15. Fashion origins: “I turned into doing collage artwork for like five years, numerous reducing human beings’ faces and piecing them returned together. I turned into doing collages of Kanye West, and I was given some iron-on switch paper and started transferring them to white button-down shirts for a school-style display. I do loads of rhinestone and severe beadwork on vintage clothing. I ended up doing such a lot of decorated pieces; I had an entire rack of them and needed to promote them.”
Learning curve:
“I’ve been painting or drawing considering that I become 3 or 4. At this factor in my existence, being creative is my personal way of meditating. I’m trying to learn how to stitch properly now because I’m looking to prepare my personal 30-appearance fashion display in October.”
Personal style:
“The last yr I was wearing loads of ballgowns to high school. Now I’m wearing things which can be simpler to move round in—something that feels right that day. I don’t try and positioned it in a single-gender or one container.”
Felipe Tascon, 16
He makes rings that sell for up to $six hundred at Traffic LA in The Joule.
Jewelry style:
“I call it a decomposition of your normal jewelry. I use a definitely hot torch that, within the earrings world, is particularly used for melting. But generally, you’d melt something right into a puddle; I soften my metallic only halfway.”
Recycling:
“Everything is melted down from both older pieces of jewelry or vintage wedding ceremony items that my mother and father received—spoons that we’ve never used because they were too first-rate. They don’t have thoughts. They’re better as rings.”
Past life:
“I used to make yo-yo string professionally. After experimenting with specific fibers, I just commenced making my personal, and then I sold it to other yo-yours. That becomes a long term in the past; it’s not simply relevant to my lifestyle anymore. I changed into 12; I’m 16 now. With rings, I determined something this is financially a touch bit extra reliable and marketable. It’s just simpler to sell. Unfortunately, polyester’s now not reasonably priced if you’re not buying it through the thousand kilos.”
