It was a girl with nomakeup, Coke-bottleglasses, and brownhair with noapparent style versus a woman with hot-pink lipstick, painted-on eyebrows, and asilverstripe in her hair.
Jewelry which has now evolved into architectural pieces that he describes as "a little laboratory for exploring shapes" still makes up 10 percent of what he sells, and his work has taken on miniature mainstream form: He designed the bottle for Dior's perfume J'adore and the case for Guerlain's Kisskiss lipstick.