Pauletta Brooks Wearable Art

Pauletta Brooks holds art degrees from Hampshire College and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Having worked in the fashion industry as an illustrator, stylist and art director, and being an avid mineral collector, it was a natural progression that Pauletta would begin to create and wear her own stylized jewelry. When Pauletta was asked to style a fashion show for a line of simple black bathing suits she decided to fabricate her own jewelry to be worn by the models. Big, bold and tribal... her designs (26 pairs of one of a kind earrings flowing down to the collarbone!) went down the runway and ultimately were the showstopper. Buyers, clamoring to know ‘who designed the jewelry’, placed orders and provided the impetus to launch into this new career. Pauletta Brooks has been designing and fabricating her own jewelry Pieces ever since.
Pauletta’s design work has been featured and credited in major fashion magazines and journals including:
Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Details, The Daily News, and Ornament Magazine. Her crafts have been featured in Handcraft Magazine, Sundance, Plaid Industry Books, and the galleries at F.I.T and The Folk Art Museum, New York.
Drawing inspiration from art historical reference and from the manipulation of the material itself, Pauletta Brooks creates pieces that can be appreciated as both sculpture and fashion. Her pieces are complex, elegant, organic, tactile, modern, primitive, bold, ‘wearable art’.