Bejeweled: Interview with Jewelry Designer, Yuko Ebina

YUKO EBINA is doing what she loves and does best—designing and handcrafting jewelry. After realizing what her lifelong passion was and with the prodding of family and friends, Ebina decided to run with her dream and turn it into a career. Her jewelry designs are reflective of her globetrotting experiences. As a kid she remembers […]

Do or Dye: Interview with an Up-and-Coming Hair Stylist

In a generation filled with tech-savvy, resource-rich, smart and ambitious twenty and thirty somethings, more and more people are picking up a second skill next to their day job to pursue a creative passion or hone a hobby professionally—and they’re embracing it with glee. Meet Esther Suh, who’s a case in point where she’s a […]

Words To Live By: When Fashion and Music Collide

  By Shontel Horne — Hanna Rochelle knows a good idea when she sees one. The Moscow-born, L.A.-raised singer/songwriter turned her love of lyrics into an enterprising fashion brand with her line Lyric Culture, ( sold at Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom), a surprisingly simple concept jotting the iconic words of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Pink […]

Making It Work: Interview with Interior Designer Marcia Prentice

By Bethany Nauert — Meet Marcia Prentice. If you watched HGTV’s docu-reality series “Design School” which aired in 2010, you may have seen her in action. The show follows a group of elite interior design students from FIDM who are given challenges to test out their design skills in the real world. One of her […]

Branding to Innovate: The Man Behind The Culture Creative Firm

By Bethany Nauert— Sean Yashar, a native Angeleno, is the powerhouse behind the innovative brand consultancy, The Culture Creative. Combining knowledge and creative foresight, Sean fills a white space for content creation in the design, lifestyle and luxury goods industries. A self-described “modern artisan” on a mission to save the world from the mundane, Sean’s […]

Curious Obessessions: Interview with a Model

Candace Eason may not be rich and famous, but that’s the least of her worries. “I’m just happy that I’m living” is her stance on life as she takes out a self-designed notebook filled with a long list of detailed goals. Graduating from the Michigan State University with an art degree, Candace had always been […]

It’s Heating Up: Interview with New Music Group, Aziatix

  By Annie Suh — When raw talent surfaces, it doesn’t stay hidden for long no matter what the barrier. A new Asian American hip hop/R&B group is proving this point as they take the reins on the global music scene, and they’re getting much love here as well. Aziatix (pronounced “ey-zhee-attics”) released their debut […]

Career Change: An Unlikely Conversion from Films to Needles

Text and Photos by Bethany Nauert — Russell Brown is not your traditional Acupuncturist. He doesn’t believe in all the clichés that normally accompany Americans who wax philosophical about Eastern traditional medicine. Hesitant to even own a pair of billowy yoga pants, he finds it deranged when Americans use words like “Namaste” and “Love and […]

Interview with Writer and Director, Adam Russell

By Bethany Nauert — “I approach screenwriting the same way I approached writing poems in my black and white speckled composition book in sixth grade. The end goal is to evoke emotion, any emotion, within yourself first (if you’re not feeling anything from your writing no one else will), then with the audience (in that […]

Interior Design Maven: Interview with John Saint-Denis

By Bethany Nauert — I met John Saint-Denis when I showed up at his lovely design-centric home for a photo shoot for Apartment Therapy. Everything in his flat is sexy, masculine and as regal as can be. This is no surprise for a well-respected figure in the design world, who knows way more than a […]

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