— Transformation has been the hallmark of Kym Gold’s career. She went from selling her designs at 18 years old on the Venice Beach boardwalk to building one of the biggest stories in denim history with. Shortly after the fashion business phenom sold the business for $800 million, her youngest son gifted her a pottery class in an attempt to encourage her to carve some free time for herself. “He said to me, ‘Why can’t you just have a hobby?'” she reminisced on a call with WWD.
The sinuous Yvette Pendant lamp is Dumae’s first, envisaged during Gold’s time spent building and staging homes. The range was made to set the tone for an entire space while straying from traditional lighting“Our category introductions begin with lighting, but we’re already exploring and ideating a broad range of expansions across home, hospitality and retail,” she said.“There’s little difference between the way I run my business now and how I did so in fashion.
“I work on both sides because I have a business degree. I’ve learned you can take your passion and your craft and turn them into a business and that’s something for which you really have to massage whatever brain cells that you don’t use and learn to know how to run your own business,” she said.“Though the brand is my creative outlet, I’m constantly working in tandem across the business side as well.