Local Designers Collaborate for Zero-Waste Jewelry Line
07/07/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Local New Orleans businesses, Passion Lilie and Beatrix Bell, are excited to announce their collaboration on a limited-edition, zero-waste jewelry line. Katie Schmidt, designer and founder of the sustainable clothing brand Passion Lilie, collaborated with local jewelry designer Beatrix Bell to launch the line on the heels of the pandemic.
“I had all of this leftover fabric cut into small bits, some of it from making masks,” Schmidt says. She started working tirelessly making masks at the beginning of the pandemic because that’s what was selling. “I wanted to utilize those leftover pieces and not waste them. The idea of a jewelry line popped into my mind and I’m not a jewelry expert.”