Cynthia Sakai

Cynthia Sakai
Born 1982
Pasadena, California
Residence Los Angeles
Awards Member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
Labels Vita Fede

Cynthia Sakai is an American jewelry designer and founder of Vita Fede. She also founded Girlboy by Koco, and is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Early life

Sakai was born in Pasadena, California in 1982 to an architect father, and a mother owned a boutique along with working at Fendi.[1][2][3][4]

Fashion career

Girlboy by Koco

Sakai’s beauty accessories were carried in Ulta and Sephora. Girlboy was funded entirely by Sakai’s work as a child actor. Vita Fede, the successor organization to her first designs, has remained headquartered in Los Angeles, where she has added a staff of thirty Los Angeleans and another sixty or so staff in other offices in various other countries.[1][5]

Vita Fede

Sakai opened her first multi-line showroom in 2003, where Sakai began remodeling Italian jewelry and sold the pieces through her shop as well as through vendors including Bloomingdale's to Neiman Marcus. Sakai named her enterprise Vita Fede in 2009, after the Italian word for “life” and the Italian word for “faith”. The line continues to be produced from Italian jewelry, where her company has a second headquarters.[1][5]

Designs

Materials used in Sakai’s pieces include brass, sterling silver, 24k gold, natural stones, and Swarovski crystals.[6] The signature piece in her Vita Fede line is the Titan, “a hinged bangle with distinctive cone details”. Sakai’s pieces have been worn by musicians and actresses at US national awards shows like the Billboard Awards and movie premieres.[7] She also designs technology infused jewelry, such as USB capable necklaces.[8] Sakai has stated that her intention with these pieces is to provide an aesthetic to technology devices different than technology-company created items.[4]

Personal life

Sakai travels to different countries in order to place her pieces in their retail shops.[9][10] In 2014 Sakai was inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America.[11] She has also appeared in magazines including Elle Magazine.[12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "CYNTHIA SAKAI". CFDA.
  2. ↑ "TEEN VOGUE Fashion University - Cynthia Sakai". teenvoguefashionuniversity.com.
  3. ↑ "Los Angeles Designers Share Career Advice". Refinery29.
  4. 1 2 "An Interview Vita Fede’s Cynthia Sakai - Savoir Flair". An Interview Vita Fede’s Cynthia Sakai - Savoir Flair.
  5. 1 2 http://fashionista.com/2015/02/vita-fede-cynthia-sakai-interview
  6. ↑ "Zoe Saldana Wears Delicate Gold Vita Fede Jewelry To Guardians of the Galaxy' Press Conference: Best Bling Of The Week". Fashion & Style.
  7. ↑ "Life, Faith, & Jewelry: Meet Vita Fede Designer Cynthia Sakai". BlackBook.
  8. ↑ Chicago Tribune (19 August 2014). "Fashion accessory trend equal parts tech and chic - Chicago Tribune". chicagotribune.com.
  9. ↑ "Jolin．Tina都「飾」它的粉 VITA FEDE登台秀限量款". 蘋果日報.
  10. ↑ "Level 6ix - New Exiciting Brands for Fall Winter 2012 : Up to date". level6ix.com.
  11. ↑ Danielle Directo-Meston. "LA's Apolis, Clare Vivier, More Join CFDA's Top Talents List". Racked LA.
  12. ↑ "Cynthia Sakai". ELLE TW.
  13. ↑ "Cynthia Sakai：不同年代的單品讓混搭更有趣". ELLE TW.
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