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Bing Bang in Flaunt


Flaunt Magazine, by Molly Young

Don’t be fooled by Anna Sheffield’s halo of curls and heart-shaped sunglasses. This is a woman who studied blacksmithing in art school, once managed a tattoo parlor, and lives in the company of an Ed Ruscha lithograph that spells “SIN,” in big bold letters.

Two chains, one thick and one gossamer-thin, are looped around the designer’s neck, and bird and heart tattoos lace their way up her arms. If Sheffield daily walks the line between masculine and feminine, we’d only expect her creations to do the same.

Bing Bang, Sheffield’s collection of jewelry, includes a constellation of bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and rings that look like something Marie Antoinette might have worn if she’d have grown up in the East Village.

The materials are perennial, the aesthetic talismanic. “I want these things to appeal to people on an innate level,” Sheffield says. “They’re meant to be heirlooms.”

There are gunmetal bangles and owl-head earrings with Swarovski-crystal eyes, charm bracelets and rosary beads. Sheffield’s jewelry is reminiscent of black tulips and iron filigree — objects dainty and tough in shifting, indeterminate proportions. If Repo Man were born a repo girl, she’d be wearing Bing Bang.

Sheffield’s jewelry is not for the faint of heart because these pieces are meant to be felt against the body — they’ve got weight and they make noise.

Blacksmithing, Sheffield laughs, proved not to be a viable career for a girl of her stature, but the spirit of the craft remains at the heart of her collection. And Bing Bang is just the sort of tough love that we need.

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