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"  Photo: Courtesy of Laura Medine They say the apple doesn&amp;#039;t fall far from the tree\u2014and in the case of the Medine family, that is one very sparkly, bejeweled apple. Leandra Medine, aka, The Man Repeller, has made her stamp on the fashion industry\u2014collaborating with brands like Dannijo and PJK, and her brother Haim Medine is the brains behind cheeky jewelry label, Khai Khai. Now, their elegant mother Laura Medine has forayed into the design world with her own high-end namesake jewelry line. Mrs. Medine has always had a penchant for jewelry, and Leandra has inherited that passion, as well, starting trends like the catchphrase &amp;quot;arm party&amp;quot; (a stack of bracelets on one&amp;#039;s wrist). &amp;quot;I grew up in Milan, and my father was a precious stone trader, so jewelry has been part of my life since I was a child,&amp;quot; Mrs. Medine told us. &amp;quot;Diamonds, rubies, emeralds were just ingrained in my daily life. And I knew that one day I would revisit it. I love jewelry.&amp;quot; In 2010, she also designed for the Mark Henry collection, an Alexandrite gemstone collection. Her line is centered around the idea of &amp;quot;well-being&amp;quot;\u2014perhaps a nod to her other hobby, yoga. Read on to learn more about her influences, celebrity crushes, and if she&amp;#039;ll be creating her own blog any time soon.   Photo: Courtesy of Laura Medine  Tell us about your path to designing jewelry. I always believe that jewelry makes the outfit, so I think it&amp;#039;s an important component to a woman&amp;#039;s wardrobe. My husband is a jeweler, and I&amp;#039;ve been helping him since before I had my four children. I was working for him in merchandising and taking care of the buying, because he used to buy in Italy\u2014that&amp;#039;s where I grew up and I speak the language. I weaved in and out of the jewelry world until I decided to just give my full attention to it by creating the Laura Medine line. What influences your creations? Anything that gives a feeling of well-being: nature, the solar system (my Celestial collection has [motifs of the] sun, moon, and stars), and even musical notes are a part of my collection because music brings happiness to the soul. We have [an element] of a lot of movement\u2014we call that the wave. We also have the Flora and Fauna collections [which is inspired by nature, such as tulips, flowers, butterflies, and other insects]. I&amp;#039;m also a yoga practitioner so I&amp;#039;m very much in tune with that. At the same time, I definitely keep fashion in mind: [I design for] the lady who likes to look good and feel good while wearing this jewelry. What else should we know about the woman who wears this label? Every piece I make, I have to love. So the woman is basically reflecting myself\u2014the lady could be from her mid-thirties all the way to her seventies. Someone who loves fashion and loves to always look put-together. The jewelry just ties the whole outfit in, and makes you feel good\u2014and look good! Who&amp;#039;s your dream client? Kate Winslet. She&amp;#039;s classic. I could also see someone like Jennifer Lopez for my bigger pieces. I could go from one end of the spectrum to the other.   Photo: Courtesy of Laura Medine  How is your line different from what Leandra does with The Man Repeller or what Haim does with Khai Khai? Khai Khai is more whimsical and edgy\u2014it&amp;#039;s just a lot more fun. Leandra has her own style: avant-garde and out-of-the-box. Leandra loves my collection, and she loves Haim&amp;#039;s collection\u2014everything she wears is our jewelry, mine and Haim&amp;#039;s. She can embrace both of our styles very nicely. That&amp;#039;s why my collection and Haim&amp;#039;s line are both very versatile. If you want to be classy or edgy or avant-garde, you can incorporate it. Would you ever make a blog to complement the jewelry? No, I don&amp;#039;t think so. I won&amp;#039;t venture into that! It never really crossed my mind. I love what I&amp;#039;m doing, and I get immersed in it. I like to focus on designing, designing, designing\u2014and pleasing my customer. I just want people to love the pieces. How do you hope to expand the label? I would probably make a line that is more accessible, price-wise. I would make it in silver, with less precious stones. That&amp;#039;s the way to go to the masses, because right now my price point is higher [than that]. I would go in that direction, because I would like everyone to have a piece and to take part in this. The Laura Medine Collection is available at Fivestory and London Jewelers for $1,500-$25,000.  Photo: Courtesy of Laura Medine "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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