A designer, artist and innovator, Laeia Angelica blurs the line between fashion and art, creating unique, exquisitely crafted pieces. She is currently based in New York City and has lived on four continents– with each experience further enriching her artistic practice. Having not only devised the concept of these wearable works of art, but also inventing and patenting the processes that make it possible, Angelica’s story has been one of innovative excellence. From the very start her collections were bought by the world’s most prestigious stores: Bergdorf Goodman, Le Bon Marché in Paris and other boutiques around the world. Her private clients include crowned heads , celebrities and socialites.
Growing up in Europe and being surrounded by art from her earliest moments certainly predestined her to be an artist. Her father was an architect and a painter, her great-grandfather was a jeweler who created the crown and scepter of the Shah of Iran. And as a child, she was told the lives of the impressionists by her mother instead of the usual bedtime stories.
Made entirely by hand, and taking days to complete, each piece is a work of art and an expression of Angelica’s philosophy.
For much of human history, the butterfly has been considered a symbol of the soul and of freedom. It is also a symbol of transformation, a call to realise our better selves and to assist however we can in the transformation of the world. Angelica’s own attempts to do just that have seen her partner with a number of charities and more recently with Mending Kids International — a charity that provides life saving , life altering surgeries to children in developing countries.
