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The Art of Design

There was one dress in last month’s Go Red for Women show that really stood out for us. It was red, as per the show’s theme, but with two knockout details. One, the dress’ shape, accentuated by a blue diagonal panel; and two, the dramatic silk and ...

Swim into Style with IbellaV

With Polish-born models now dominating the Balmain, Louis Vuitton and Chloe campaigns (such as the notable Anja Rubik) it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Poland also produces the fiercest and freshest designers that are emerging east of Berlin and into ...

The Evolution of John Brevard

What do you see when you close your eyes? Some people see light and patterns emerge from the darkness. Others see the things they’ve been dreaming of. Others, the things they fear. Others, still, see the things their subconscious is trying to tell them. ...

Doin' It for Themselves

Unlike most designers, jewelry designer Daniela Millan does not have a background in design. Her education was in finance, and she first moved to the U.S. from Venezuela to work for a bank in Chicago. Then, she moved New York. By day, she was ...

Style and Substance

Six years ago Joaquin Ortiz broke his back – literally. “I was hit by an SUV and smashed in to the side of a boat," Ortiz explains. "I was told I would never walk again."

Not one to take such a grim prognosis lying down, Ortiz worked, and ...

Going Global

Jewelry designer Carolina Loyola grew up in Key Biscayne, where she learned the craft from her mother, high-end jewelry designer Adriana Loyola. But she didn’t go immediately into design. Instead, she moved to Boston, where she went to college for ...

Just Classic

Claudia Estrada always wanted to go into fashion design. But when she came to Miami in 2000 from Ecuador, she studied interior design instead, thinking it a more practical choice. But the siren's call of fashion was too strong. She left school and opened up ...

A Darker Shade of Pale

What do you get when you combine Miami audacity, North Eastern austerity and LA street smarts? Kill Darling, the new LA-based line by Miami-native Sam Klemick.   

The line, which combines Klemick's "blunt, outspoken" personality with the fairy ...

As You Like It

Before she was Nadia Dayan, bikini designer extraordinaire, she was Nadia Dayan, unemployed drafter on honeymoon in Thailand. When she returned to Miami after a month abroad, Nadia wanted to continue experiencing the bliss that one experiences on holiday. ...

Post Punk Chic

Italian-born designer Fia has always gotten a lot of attention for how she dressed. When she was living in New York, modeling and attending FIT, "An artist sort of chased me down the street on a bicycle and asked me if I wanted to model for her ...

Found Objects

Cindy Borjas is very in-tune with her personal style. "I'm a goth at heart. I'm stuck somewhere between 1915 and 1940," she says. "I've been shopping at vintage stores since I was a little girl," mostly, she says, for economical reasons. But, "Once I ...

They Made it Themselves

When artist Aleksandar Kirilov met design student Laura Pimentel one night at Mansion, probably the last thing on his mind was protecting his paintings. Then the couple started dating, and Pimentel shifted from designing jewelry to designing ...

A Breath of Fresh Flair

“Fun, breezy, young and fresh,” is the way clothing designer, Lorie Lester describes her work. MFb got together with the up-and-coming designer to take a peek at her latest collections in her new studio and boutique, which recently opened in MiMo. ...

Bold to the Bone

Last night at the Charles Albert Spring 2011 jewelry Preview, MFb was treated to a behind the gems peek at the latest exotic, statement necklaces, rings, and cuffs that are sure to knock your pearls off. The event took place at Art Fusion Galleries in ...

Beachy Keen

“My signature outfit is ripped jeans, a white t-shirt and tons of jewels. It’s never too much in my book,” says the gem savvy Courtney Udelson, creator and designer of the classic with a contemporary twist jewelry line, Courtney Lee Collection.

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A Little Drama, Please

Karelle Levy, the mind behind Krelwear, sees her design as a direct reflection of her performance art. Her pieces are inventive (right down to the fabric that she creates herself), and theatrical in their own right. Which is not surprising considering ...

Dressing Us from the Feet Up

Isabel Toledo is one of the rare designers recognized as much in the art world as she is in the world of design. Her pieces are inventive and bold, but rather than being more for the runway than the real world, Toledo's designs are extremely down to earth. ...

Quite a Gem

Shannon Saint Clair has always been crafty. She learned to sew as a kid, and seems to look at the world in terms of its parts (and what can be made from them). As an NFL wife (she's married to John Saint Clair, who used to play offensive tackle for the Miami ...

Silvana Danies Returns to Miami...with Goodies

Every creative person wants to be “discovered” in one way, shape or form. They want for the fruits of their imagination to exist outside of themselves; to be "real" to others. This happened for Silvana Danies when she walked into Mia, a jewelry boutique ...

The Time is Now

Time-Peace is a watch and t-shirt company that came about in a completely unconventional way. For starters, it wasn’t about designing fashion at all; it was about starting a revolution. Lucky for us, this movement pushed six young fellows to design ...