Colleen Nika interviewed me last week about Von Kottwitz for new destination site Vevant. Check out the piece, which includes preview stills from a new film we’re working on….

“Though she’s wisely cautious, she’s not counting out all expansionist plans. “I did a film already,” she says, referring to the Meridian film, a concept piece that accompanied her Fall 2010 collection premiere in February.  It’s a portrait of a woman’s intimacy with jewelry, a celebration of decoration, ritual, and the creation of personal totems. Though Von Kottwitz might be conceived to be stark, cold, and utilitarian, on the wearer’s hands (or neck), Stotler’s vision can reverberate with a humane individualism.  “By using vintage footage of my mother adoringly filmed by my father intercut with new images of a modern, intimate ‘boyfriend experience,’ I sought to show the way jewelry can become a very personal element between a woman and her lover, as both the last thing she puts on when going to meet him and the final thing she takes off in private.” Stotler explains.”