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This is Jeff

  • Posted by: GOOD , Trujillo-Paumier
  • on August 9, 2007 at 5:01 pm

Name: Jeff Hong

Age: 29

Location: Palos Verdes, California

Hometown: Los Angeles, California (Korea Town)

Occupation: Jewelry designer; co-owner and manager of a jewelry store in South Central, Los Angeles called Iceefresh

In The Rough

I use my knowledge of what I like to do and try to combine it with jewelry. I’ve never bought a piece of jewelry in my life. What I think about is how I can make it. I thought it was fresh cool to sell something I had designed.

Iceefresh

I couldn’t do this by myself. You need a family. You need a real good team. You need a lot of trust. They have to trust me and my designs. I have to trust them when they make it.

And Those Are His Things

 

1. Highway 10 necklace ($65,000): “I hold onto it for a friend. He doesn’t like to keep it at his house for safety purposes. Basically I’m his banker.”

 

2. Pencils: “Everything I make, I draw first. It relaxes me, sometimes better than sex.”

 

3. Movies: “My favorite movie is Scarface because it’s about someone who made something of himself from nothing.”

 

4. Baby Shoes: “I guess it was my mom who put my first sneakers on.”

 

5. Jeweled skateboard: “This is the skateboard that started it all.”

 

6. Grills: “They’re like makeup for some people.”

 

7. Par grinder jewelry tool: “You can grind things. You can puncture holes into any jewelry, you can polish, you can paint jewelry with it.”

 

8. Keys to his Porsche 997: “I like speed. If I’m not playing with my hands, I’m playing with my feet.”

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DISCUSSION: 2 Comments
    • Posted by: bjgough
    • on August 21, 2007 at 11:33 pm

    My sister-in-law makes her own jewelry as well, and she is making some sweet stuff. I know how her experience shapes her approach to design, what I’d like to know is where/how you get your ideas for specific pieces/lines of jewelry.

    • Posted by: martyzthebutlerb
    • on September 27, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Uber expensive jewelry crafted by hipster speedfreak feels fun but how is it good? Feels a bit more MTV cribs than world changing.

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