Plus, Mondo looks the part of a fresh new designer. That’s something I loved about Season 7 winner Seth Aaron Henderson, whose work I do love. His style is so strong and unique and easily identifiable as Mondo. He was not only the clear winner of several “Project Runway” challenges, viewers chose him as the clear winner too. Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of Mondo’s prints, but it was obvious that he should win. (But what’s this about Jessica’s sister wearing Gretchen’s clothes?) The Marie Claire connection probably helped there. Michael Kors and Nina Garcia fought for Gretchen Jones and her commercial collection focused on what’s happening now in the fashion world. Pre-shop With Love by Reagan Bregman now online or in person at the grand reveal event on Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28 at Shaftel Diamonds (5706 San Felipe St.).Jessica and Heidi Klum loved Mondo, especially his polka dot dress. Time to add “baseball prognosticator” to her list of titles. Do you have a bold playoff prediction for us?' Dude even hit a home run for your birthday. And I went to A&M - I could do maroon!ĬM: You famously told Alex to 'go get some hits' when you were literally about to have Baby Knox. RB: Right? So, say you wanted Astros orange, or you're an LSU fan and you want purple, or an A&M fan and you want maroon, it would be maroons sapphires - and you just interchange it. RB: Yeah! Something else I wanted to tell you is that we are going to do more collections in the future, and the idea is to do game day jewelry.ĬM: Daaaang. If I'm gonna give something to a friend for her wedding, I want it to be elevated and memorable.ĬM: So I gotta ask, with all these customizable and removable pieces and gemstones, can you do Astros colors? So, whenever you're gifting it, I feel like it's something you're giving that's going to last a really long time, versus temporary. I've learned a lot about jewelry, especially sapphires, and now even as a consumer, I'm looking for that stuff because it's awesome. They're natural sapphires - not from a lab anything, a real gemstone - and 18-karat gold with a better plating.

A lot of it is what I would love to be gifted or I would love to give to my friends, and the idea too is getting people something that will last, right? So that's why this is an elevated collection. RB: Yeah! That's exactly what the inspiration was. Apart from the beautiful heart for Little Knox and those kind of moments, did you craft pieces that you would want to give - or get - as gifts? Like, ' Okay, this is what I would want to get my mom,' or 'This is what I would want Alex to get me,' (sorry, Alex)? If I'm giving something to someone, how I would sign it? That's where the idea came from.ĬM: You've always been intentional in development. Ands so we were going through names, we were thinking kind of almost, 'how I would sign my name ?' Since it's such a personal collection, we did With by Love Reagan Bregman. RB: And so I had already come up with that idea prior to naming. That's what the meaning is.ĬM: I'm not getting verklempt, that's just dust in my eye.

And so when I had my son, that happened, and there's other things in life where that happens - a you-didn't-know-you-had-it-in-you kind of thing. So, my own take on it is how it symbolizes how your heart grows in so many ways, you could never imagine. RB: I didn't want to do a literal heart because I've seen that done a lot of time. And so the main thing I created for the collection is an abstract heart.ĬM: And you clearly avoided the kinda cliché jewelry heart thing. And as you know, I had a son last year, and so that was a really big moment in my life. RB: So a lot of the pieces that we made, I wanted them to be meaningful. Tell me more about the name of this line. You killed it with the Breaking Barriers line as your follow-up album to Exiza - you really put a lot of thought into that name. ĬM: You and I have talked branding in the past - it’s important to you.

But this is the perfect collaboration, because I love the Shaftels and I love the people who work there - it's family business.

I’ve done businesses before, so for me, the fun part is also the business side of it. RB: Yeah! So, it was never really like, 'I’m gonna start a jewelry line.' It kind of just came together.

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