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Los Angeles, CA - Venice,
California-based glass jewelry designer Trace Palmer is
enjoying a year of star-studded success as pieces from her KarmaKulture
line make their way out of LA boutiques and into the hands of
celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Pamela Anderson, Jill
Ritchie and even Madonna's daughter Lourdes. Also stylists are
seeking KarmaKulture hand-blown glass pieces for their photo
shoots with stars such as Carney Wilson who recently wore
Trace's ultimate creation, her "Goddess" piece for a
People magazine shoot. Additionally, Playboy used select
pieces from KarmaKulture for a movie shoot in early August.
In 2002 Sharon Stone purchased
a glass necklace from a boutique in Venice and has since had
her costume designer order five custom-made pieces for Stone
to wear in her upcoming film Cold Creek Manor due for release
this fall.
Trace grew up in Northern
Ireland in a village outside Belfast called Holywood. She
moved to Sheffield, England for University, then to London and
then finally to Los Angeles in 1996. She moved up to Oregon
briefly in the late '90s where she developed her glass blowing
techniques then moved back to LA where she founded
KarmaKulture, her own jewelry line, in 2000. Her line is now
carried in high-end designer boutiques throughout LA including
Fred Segal in Santa Monica, Platino on Montana Avenue and
Jennifer Kaufman in the Beverly Center. You can also find her
creations at the Functional Art Gallery at Bergamot Station in
Santa Monica, the LA Art and Folk Museum on Wilshire, and the
Pearce Gallery on Abbot Kinney in Venice. Visit her site at
www.karmakulture.com for full store and gallery listings.
When asked what goes into the
making of a piece Trace replies, "I love to make a
specific piece for someone… getting a feeling for who they
are and then making the piece especially to fit their
character. I recently met a singer who asked me to make him a
custom necklace and he told me his band was just about to
release their first album with some African influenced
rhythms. I made him a necklace of dark wood beads from the
seventies to give some nostalgia, amber for confidence and
creativity, and seeds from the sacred ebony tree I collected
in Africa to relate to the African influence in his music. The
glass piece was a deep-perspective pendant, an abstraction of
passionate, creative energy using green for peace and growth,
with pinkish tones for love on a background of brown to match
with the wood and the seeds. He was amazed with it because he
said it was exactly what he wanted. I love connecting with a
person to inspire my creative intuition."
Recently KarmaKulture glass
jewels were featured at an expo at Bergamot Station in Santa
Monica, California, the Create:Fixate group art show in
Beverly Hills and the Malibu Art Festival.
Trace will be focusing on the
extraordinary as she premieres her new Fall 2003 line at the
following fashion show:
- Petro Montegos Fashion
Show at Celebrity Centre International (5930 Franklin
Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028) Thursday, August 28, 2003 -
7:00pm (Invite Only)
Trace is the featured Diva of
the Month for July 2003 on popular online site UnitedDivas.com.
And look for her in the September issue of Travel and Leisure
and the October issue of Teen magazine.
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For more information, samples, or to interview Trace please
contact Lynn Hasty at Green Galactic at 323-466-5141
or
lynn@greengalactic.com. Also, please visit
www.karmakulture.com. |
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