Luckily, the Port Coquitlam native’s internationally acclaimed recycled vintage leather bohos, backpacks, clutches and cuffs have worked from the get-go. "I really have such trouble screwing around with something that doesn’t work,” says Vancouver’s most stylish bag lady, Erin Templeton. Meanwhile, Kosturova stays far from the glamour of Hollywood, instead choosing to work out of her home, a shabby-chic loft on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.Įrin Templeton – Bag Designer – Erin Templeton Accessories Since then, her sexy suits have (barely) covered the best bikini bods in showbiz with a celebrity following that includes Mariah Carey, Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton, Hilary Swank and Cindy Crawford. The particularly divine design was also the first of her creations to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in 2008. That very first bikini, a fully sequined lime-and-turquoise crochet stripe, is still sold on her website as the “Beach Goddess” (above). While shopping for a bikini for a trip to Australia, Kosturova couldn’t find one she liked. Then another escape – this time from a particularly grey West Coast winter – changed her life. ![]() ![]() A free spirit who bristled under Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, Kosturova left the landlocked country of her birth to live by the ocean. That’s what makes it so exciting.”Īnna Kosturova – Swimwear designer – Anna Kosturova Swim and Resortwearįor swim- and resort-wear designer Anna Kosturova, less has indeed been more. “Then again,” says the soft-spoken aesthete, “design is an inherently risky thing. The resin lounger was, he readily admits, almost impossible to make and used extremely volatile materials. His first artistic and commercial success, the 2.4 Chair, was nearly his last. He began to create increasingly fanciful models for buildings that didn’t exist and felt drawn to creating new forms of expression.Īrbel has celebrated a banner 2013 with Bocci’s European debut this spring at Euroluce, Milan’s biannual furniture salon, and the installation of a 35-metre-tall light sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum during the London Design Festival.īut success has not come without risks. It was only toward the end of a six-year program at the University of Waterloo that a growing obsession with architectural scale models pointed him in a different direction. I knew I was meant to be a creator all my life,” says Omer Arbel in the rooftop garden of Bocci’s headquarters in the design-centric Armoury District of Vancouver.īorn in Jerusalem, the Vancouver-raised industrial designer originally thought his calling was architecture. His conceptual approach, now fueled by an infrastructure for prototyping, fine craft, manufacturing and distribution, has given birth to a collection of conceptually driven lighting, furniture, electrical accessories and objects, which have since gained significant presence and impact within the design community.Omer Arbel – Industrial Designer – Omer Arbel Office and Bocci In 2005, Arbel became Bocci’s creative director. ![]() ![]() Conversely, critics have noted that the practice’s built works appear to be inspired by an obsession with the object, the possibilities implicit in the process of making, and the intrinsic quality of materials. They appear to be motivated by larger-scale concepts which can only be considered architectural. It has been said of Arbel’s practice that its industrial design works, in both limited edition and mass-produced formats. Barber Osgerby | Hotaru Anniversary EditionĪfter apprenticeships at Miralles Tagliabue Architects and Patkau Architects, in 2005, Arbel founded a multidisciplinary design studio focused on blurring the boundaries between the fields of building, industrial design, and materials research.
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