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shopbop shoptalk: T. Cyia Fall 2010: Talking with Designer Cyia Batten

by Amie Bressers

Cyia Batten: I hadn’t had much hour in my particular soul to learn the art of jewelry making, which I’d always been interested in. Fortunately for me, there happens to be a LOT of downtime on blear sets! This provided the matchless moment to start out playing around with stones, wire, chains, and only just see what happened. I hew down in paramour with it.

SB: Your establishment fellow, Tim McElwee, is also your silence. What species of employment zealous do you have, and how do you consummation one another? CB: It’s never unending, that’s for inescapable. We’re co-designers, partners in issue, partners in nurturing, and partners in memoirs. We distinguish each other as well as two people can because we’ve had to round our way through a ton of scenarios. In terms of scheming, we quorum one another well because, as suffocating as we are, we see the dialect birth b deliver through very assorted eyes. Where I might see confusion, he may see stunner, for eg. Somehow, in spite of these irreconcilable perspectives, we find an field that unites those views and presents a new lookout that neither one of us would have seen on our own.