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Rachael Domingo, creative director/lead apparel designer, painter/illustrator Black Chandelier

www.rachaeldomingo.com

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I love blue and orange screaming at eachother, severe shapes, the concept of melting and dripping. Water is my favorite element - everything it does is beautiful. Varying pencil lines turning into threads and branches. high contrast vrs. mat, low saturation, curved lines that form delicate shapes, open space, music, piano, dance, glassy eyes with heavy oil spill liner, things falling apart and getting stitched back together, lights, paint, the curls at the ends of a fern, color, and then everything back to white,,, These things make me very happy. Everything else generally does not. Now back to work!


"I love the constant movement of the fashion industry. I was born with a raging passion for elegance and elevated beauty; drawing dresses, high heels etc. from to time I could hold a pencil. The walls in my room were constantly plastered with new images of women flaunting latest designs. My dad was a hippy sculptor who taught us how to play with sticks and bones, my mother was a pianist who would fill our house with music and my sister would put her tap shoes and mutilate our wood floors while I ran around working on doll-house interior re-decoration, sculpting doll heads out of clay play script writing and designing costumes for my next back porch play production. I spent a lot of time alone outside with the trees and birds and gained a love for nature and it's infinite supply of harmonious beauty. Not much has changed, I am still constantly doing art. If I'm not designing or painting, my mind is teaming with thoughts surrounding each project and coming up with new ones. I have found that beauty comes directly from the strength of the soul and the visible only matters when it is supported by the invisible. Though I am still quite effortlessly taken by the seductive process of manipulating surfaces that relate to the figure. My love of nature and creatures is still very evident in my work. Art to me is a lifestyle, a constant stream of processes and recreation, a sensitivity to the delicate invaluable magic of life and a mind set that I find entirely vital."

Missy Scarbrough, wardrobe stylist, fashion show and event coordinator


Growing up with 5 sisters, Missy Scarbrough would sneak into her sisters’ rooms when they were gone and steal their biggest and boldest accessories, including necklaces, earrings, belts, purses, and hats. Many hours were spent in front of the mirror mixing and matching different outfits and accessories and then sneakily putting the accessories perfectly back into her sisters’ closets before they got home from school. That is where her love for fashion began. Having a love for so many elements of life, Missy ended up going to four different colleges and studying everything from music, to art, to fashion. But always having a constant love for fashion, Missy decided to pursue a career in it, specializing in wardrobe styling.




 




Mason Fetzer, lead graphic designer, Black Chandelier

www.masonfetzer.com 

1. Scalpels are like Xacto knives

It’s 1999. It’s 5 o’clock in the morning. I change from my street clothes into some light blue scrubs. Hospitals are cold. The surgeon tells his team, “This is Mason, he’s a pre-med student.” Actually, I’m a pre-pre-med high school student.

Seven hours. I stand, I listen, I watch. I see a laparoscopic spleen removal, first one in Utah. I see a hernia repaired. I see cancer removed. I see careful artists, carefully executing a creative and imaginative procedure. I am captivated by the intensity, the precision, and the improvisation. I want to be a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon. I want to cut with a scalpel. 

2. I write like my Dad
It’s my first year of Junior High. Last year we had to write in cursive. Always. We were graded on it. I hate cursive. I just don’t have the knack. So, I decide to write in all caps. Girls think I have nicer handwriting than they do. I get asked to handprint lots of stuff. 
 
My dad went to school to be an architect. But, I don’t want to be an architect; I want to be a surgeon. Surgeons are notorious for terrible handwriting. In college, my dad learned how to scribe drafts with that special “blueprint font.” He spent days copying text, like a monk copying the Bible. He mastered it. The professors thought he had nicer handwriting than they did. He gets asked to handprint lots of stuff. 
 
3. Playing Nintendo is like riding in a car
It’s late in the day, when the sun floods the sky with pink. I’m on a family vacation. I notice out the window of our family van that the mountains pass by slower than the fences; the fences go by slower than the road. I am fascinated by the physiology of this visual depth of field.
 
Later, I am back at home and playing Nintendo, I notice as I play that the mountains go by slower than the fences, the fences go by slower than the road. Just like in the van. This time however, my visual landscape is the two dimensional electric plane of the TV. A flat screen with just layers, shifting.
 
It’s right now. You’re reading this, my artist’s statement. I escaped from biology but kept my love for scalpels, except now I say X-Acto knife. I stayed in the family business, sort of, but not as an architect. My Nintendo has been replaced by an Apple computer, which I still play way too much. And I am fascinated by intensity, improvisation, and precision. Also, by just layers, shifting.


Sarah de Azevedo, jewelry designer, Locust of the Sea

Sarah de Azevedo is a multi-talented art ninja. Prolific in Jewelry and accessory design as well as a well the haled "Best Tattoo Artist" in Salt Lake City where she lives and works. She is a powerful aesthetic force for the Black Chandelier constantly creating new covetable pieces that make unforgettable impressions and the perfect gift for anyone with a severe sense of fashion. Visit our jewelry section often for constant new additions to add to your unique personal collection.

If Kat Von D is the only fierce female tattoo artist on your radar, get to know de Azevedo who—like the high-profile star of TLC’s LA Ink—holds her own and then some in a largely male-dominated industry. Unlike Von D, de Azevedo has climbed the ranks in a town known more for its conservative politics than its impressive skin art. Her portfolio, along with those of fellow Beehive State artists, is slowly but surely helping to reverse outside perceptions of Utah’s thriving tattooing community. From pin-ups and landscapes to floralgarden sleeves and a spot-on portrait of actor Heath Ledger (RIP), her creations are well worth the wait—a very good thing, considering she’s currently booked out six months in advance. OniTattooGallery.com




Drew Landerman, Accessory designer, Black Chandelier  

www.drewnicorn.com

I was born and raised in picturesque suburban Sandy, UT - youngest child of 6 from your "typical conservative Mormon household."

Drew began gaining notority in SLC's underground nightlife scene in 1996 - decked out in outragious DIY fashions: this sharp-tounged / quick-witted club kid ferociously worked it out on the dancefloor nightly. However, that was not enough - there had to be something more...

Constantly causing a scene, maintaining the ability to turn heads, and make innocent standers-by question their reality is what Drew does best. what exactly defines "masculine" and what makes something "feminine" -- the lines are obviously blurred.

When Drew isn't busy owning the catwalk, making waves in the concrete and challenging stereo types, he's may be found crafting his sought after one of a kind Drewnnicorn accessories made from select vintage chains and other tantalizing components.







Andrew Florin, Graphic artist & Designer 

Andrew Florin Art & Design


Andrew Florin is a multi-faceted Artist/Designer currently residing in Salt Lake City, Utah.














    

                           

Terrance Bodine, Quasar Jewelry Designer

Peering through the forest of my mind to the world around me spirals into a kaleidoscope and I have no choice but to create as inspiration and ideas come to me.  As an ever learning artist and designer many things in this world strike me as interesting, unusual or captivating and I want to share those discoveries with others.  Observing gifted designers around us and critically viewing the society of fashion and artistry I like to tribute their vision of the world as well as endorsing my own.  After observation then comes gathering things that speak to me around my environment is a constant medium of expression.  Expressing myself in my designs is important because my art is a reaction and reflection to those things around me, sometimes a commentary on the life surrounding me, and that voice is important.  My goal is to translate the beauty and worth in life and the never-ending reaches of magic that tends to follow each of us going unnoticed until being acknowledged. 

My jewelry collections are called Quasar, meaning "very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus, quasars are the must luminous objects in the universe" because I want that spark, passion and unique occurrence of a Quasar to be a theme for my jewelry designs.  Open you eyes, mind and heart and bring your kaleidoscope along to explore the forest of Quasars with me.  Bon Voyage!  

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Terrance Bodine

(photo taken by Aly Johnson)




Aaron Michael Woods - Men's Designer, men's collection development and styling



 

http://www.modelmayhem.com/1108237

 

He was born and raised in good old Provo, UT.  Growing up there, Provo was no place for progress in fashion, or progress in general. He had to get out. Since then, he has spent a few years in California, Chicago, and Washington DC, during this time, he started seeing the world with a different eye and a more open mind. He started modeling fitness and fashion in Chicago, and moved to Salt Lake City in 2009 and fell in love with the underground culture. Bringing the real world to his home state and realizing changes that need to take place, Aaron now works to design clothing that is polar opposite from the "cookie cutter" mold that he was raised around. He brings new avenues to the Black Chandelier men's fashion collections and his keen sense for unique design results in pieces that you enjoy wearing over and over again. Aaron's design work will make you stop and say, "hey! Where did you get that?"  When not modeling himself, or working on collection development, Aaron also works as a stylist for Black Chandelier specializing in Menswear. He has styled and designed numerous fashion photo sets both for the Black Chandelier and independently.



Lukas Robin Hood- Menswear styling, design and collection development      

 

My name is Lukas Robin Hood my parents named me so after my grandfather Robin Hood, I try to keep my style unique and original mixed with some old school favorites, love to draw up great ideas for art, clothing and other creative matters and mush them all together in my head to help make the amazing things at Black Chandelier.


 

 










Laura Besterfeldt- Jewelry Designer

Artist Bio:
I am an artist who chooses mainly to make art that is meant to be showcased on the body. I mostly want to bring a heightened sense of unique beauty & attention to daily life activities……. like dressing yourself …we have to do it everyday..by law. I believe all bodies are a work of art and what you put on it becomes an extension of that…..just trying to make that extension more unique and awesome in lines and concept. I currently live in Salt Lake City, Ut. I studied sculpture in Chicago, gemmology (the study of precious stones) in Vicenza, Italy, and jewelry manufacturing & design in New York. I offer custom work through my own business 2nd Skin Jewelry (secondskinjewelry@hotmail.com) and teach jewelry classes at the University of Utah through the continuing education program as well as at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Ut.