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rock of ages; Rebecca Lau spins a youthful remix on fine jewelry.(Brief Article)

Vogue

| October 01, 2004 | Yaeger, Lynn | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Lynn Yaeger

Rebecca Lau, 24, who has been designing dazzlingly bold jewelry for two years, exclaims, "I love anything shiny!" She describes her work as "very sculptural and geometric"; recent creations are based on deconstructed concentric circles.

Lau studied fashion design at Parsons and FIT, where her classmates included the dynamic design duo Proenza Schouler-but the gold bug didn't really bite until she went to London and worked with the British jeweler Lara Bohinc. "Then I really got inspired," she says. Now she lives and works in a former chocolate factory on Manhattan's SoHo-Chinatown border, and makes frequent forays into the Diamond District in midtown for confabs with moldmakers and gem-setters.

Lau likes a ...

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