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...illustration class at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City in 1997. "Right away we realized we had the same vision: making toys that are a storytelling device," says Horvath. "I chased her for a year, and she kept saying no. When I started to give up, she came around." But in 2001, Kim's student visa expired, and she had to move back to Korea. "I was completely devastated," says Horvath, who during their two years apart took a job as a manager at Toys International in L.A. "I interfaced with buyers and distributors and realized...
...point ran into his friend Nakamura. "It was original and simple in a time when handmade plush dolls were too ornate and craftlike," says the Giant Robot owner. "The prototype had great energy and didn't ask too much in terms of analyzing it as a form or design concept. It was just easy to like. So I ordered 20." They sold out immediately. Kim sewed a second batch of a new character, Babo (Wage's blue, buck-toothed, dumb-but-loyal best friend). They sold out in two days...
...WEEKENDS, THE LINE AT ISTANBUL'S Mangerie, a hip rooftop restaurant with views over the Bosporus Strait, stretches three stories down the stairs toward the street. On a recent Sunday, Defne Kocabiyikoglu, 28, a design consultant, and her boyfriend, Baran Baran, 30, a motion-graphics animator, were settling into a Turkish brunch of kasar cheese and sesame-sprinkled simit pastries and expounding on the fashion constraints of the city. While Kocabiyikoglu can get any clothes she wants?favoring fashion-forward labels like Roksanda Ilincic and Tina Kalivas, which she buys online and mixes with local finds, she points...
Merve Yesilada, 22, who is working on a soon-to-open gallery and design store, Haaz, with interiors by Sami Hayek (brother of Hollywood's Salma) was having breakfast at the laid-back Assk café, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that...
...Bonpoint is completely different," says Richard Alibert, president of the company. "We are focused only on children and on dressing them every day." Although making kids' clothes might seem to be a simple matter of adapting design and manufacturing techniques to smaller sizes, he and others say it's much trickier. To cover the 0-to-14-year-old market requires 25 sizes with drastically different designs depending on whether a baby is lying down or starting to sit up, or whether he or she is still in diapers. Most items must be washable, and they must be comfortable?...