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Top 8 places to wear Clara Kasavina pieces |  | |
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Fur clutch at the VFW will go with the wall mounted deer heads.
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Stranded on a desert island, the big Marquise crystal ring can signal down a search plane
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A colored python clutch for election parties - blue for Democrats, red for Republicans
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Ultimate Fighting cage match, the oversized cuffs are great defense if cage breaks
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Purple python cuff for Viking home games (Silver Shadow for away)
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Bold dangle earrings to the grocery store, where you run into friends and exes
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Bib necklace while skiing to combat snow blindnes
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Buy a piece & exit store. Put piece on and re-enter store. Repeat. |
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Clara Kasavina
Luxurious accessories hand made in New York, Clara Kasavina is renowned for their innovation and meticulous hand-craftsmanship.
A collaboration between husband and wife, visionary and sculptor; each handbag, minaudiere, or jewelry is hand crafted with love. Clara's partner and husband Misha Berger, creates and sculpts all the metal work by hand in the Clara Kasavina New York studio.
The husband and wife duo met as children in the Ukraine and then met again as adults in the USA. Getting their start designing and manufacturing belt buckles for Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, the team was soon recognized by specialty stores across the US in what is now a 30 year celebrated collection of handbags and jewelry worn by celebrities and decorating the top fashion magazines of our time.
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Clara Kasavina Jewelry trunk show
Including stunning minaudiere clutches
Meet NYC representative Toni Murphy during this superb show. We'll be debuting hundreds of designs from Friday, Nov. 9th through Sunday, Nov. 11th.
- Over 40 clutches, including fur and exotic skins
- Hundreds of pieces of necklaces, earrings, cuffs and rings
- Get rewarded: your Clara Kasavina trunk show purchase gets you some SL Fashion Cash to use in November
- Treats and carousing by the SL sales family
- All day long, all three days (Nov. 9-11)
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THIS is impressive. Out of 1200 entries (and 400 finalists), Clara and Misha were selected as the winner of the 5th Annual Independent Designer Handbag Award in 2011 for InStyle Magazine, category: Red Carpet Ready - Evening Bag.
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Their winning design, the Romeo Minaudiere (pictured above), was featured at InStyle's Summer Soiree event in Los Angeles. What a wonderful achievement!
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ANATOMY OF A T0-DIE-FOR DESIGNER EVENING BAG: FROM IDEA TO SKETCH TO PRODUCT AND BEYOND by Peggy Healy
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Clara Kasavina
At the May Accessorie Circuit trade show in New York City we were blown away by a new evening bag from Clara Kasavina, the ready-for-the-red-carpet designer line of clutches, purses, minaudičres and fashion jewelry.
What was the inspiration? How do such beautiful, must-have bags come to be? Which comes first, the components or the design? To find out, we went to the source - designers Clara Kasavina and her husband and collaborator, Misha Berger.
 
She said: What happened, darling, is I went to a Swarovski presentation and fell madly in love with their new marquise-cut crystals in Denim blue. They came up with a whole new crystal shape! So I was very influenced by this.
He said: What I like is that Swarovski came out with the marquise in three sizes....
She said: Swarovski said that their creative people drew inspiration from Shanghai, Bangkok and....
He said: As soon as Clara said "Shanghai" to me, a picture of a Chinese fan popped into my head.
She said: Then Swarovski invited Misha to design a bag using the marquise crystals for their platform at the Accessorie Circuit Show this coming August.
He said: I was under deadline - they wanted it finished by the time of the Accessorie Circuit - so I got to work, sketching out a fan-shaped bag, encrusted with different sizes of the marquise crystals. I did the first one in Denim blue.
She said: Then I took Misha's design, turned it upside down, embellished it with clear crystals, draped it with marabou feathers and named it Larissa- so feminine and so sparkling, darling. don't you think?
He said: Somehow when the moment of creativity comes, it should be a flash and not something labored. That's what happened with the Samira bag.
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Detail, details, crystals and more crystals...
These pieces of highly collectable art are entirely original in mold, with hand-casted frames, completely hand sewn and sculpted. Achieved in the highest level of materials, lux leather, exotic skins and furs. Made with SWAROVSKI® ELEMENTS and precious metals, click here to find out more about this inspiring collaboration. |
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Museum worthy design style
Many celebrities have worn Clara Kasavina's designs, but how many have their style turned into a dedicated museum exhibit? Iconic style-setter Iris Apfel's fashion style was featured in the "Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" exhibit, organized by New York Metropolitan Museum Of Art in 2005. Iris Apfel herself picked out the exquisite Ruth bag from Clara Kasavina to become part of the collection, now permanently at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
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