Zipper Bracelet featured in InStyle Magazine

On page 125 of January 2009's InStyle Magazine, Keri Russell is shown wearing a Zipper Band Cuff. This bracelet and other style variations are available for sale at Kate's online shop.

Zipper Jewelry in Cosmo Magazine

The original Zipper Pin was recently featured in the Czech Republic's version of Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Zipper Jewelry featured on Highsnobette

Many thanks to Samia and Lois for the feature on Highsnobette.com:


"Kate Cusack has just won me over with her collection of accessories made of zippers. Based in Brooklyn Kate Cusack approaches jewelry making from an artistic perspective allowing her to create pieces with shapes and movements that are unconventional, highly visual and fashionanble. I'm totally smitten!"

latest Zipper Necklace

Silver Rope © 2008

available at Heidi Lowe Gallery
(contact info at right under "galleries and retail shops")

Zipper Jewelry featured on Cosca Blog, Italy

In early November, Zipper Jewelry was featured on Cosca blog from Italy. They have an extensive list of other design blogs to look at, and lots of interesting design features.

Zipper Jewlery at ZooZoom's Fashion War at 3rd Ward

Zoozoom & 3rd Ward Present Fashion Wars Live -A Party for Independent Style on Friday, November 14th from 8 pm on... CALLING ALL STYLISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, INDEPENDENT DESIGNERS, ARTISTS & JUST PLAIN CREATIVE MINDS! FASHION WARS LIVE is an unprecedented documentation of indie fashion and a celebration of creatives working in the fashion industry.

Fashion designers & lovers are invited to dress their friends to compete in Zoozoom's real time FASHION WARS. Photos of participants will appear through out the night and attendees will cast their vote for the most stylish among us.

WFMU DJ's SmallChange and Trent Wolbe will be providing the soundtrack. Up-and-coming Philadelphia band Except After Sea and The Dig of New York will be playing live sets, peppered by the violin stylings of Marques Tolliver. Artisan Collective & Collen Rae Smiley will display fashion art installations.

Be Photographed. Drink. Dance. Party. And show off your fashion chops.

(vote for Kate. . .)

Zipper Jewelry featured on LushBling.com

Many thanks to Nicole who recently featured Zipper Jewelry on LushBling.com

Zipper Jewelry featured on Z-blog

Zipper Jewelry was recently featured on a blog that focuses on all things "Z." To view posting, visit: http://i-am-z.com/zblog/archives/140

Zipper Jewelry worn at Chanel Pavillion

New York Times reporter, Melena Ryzik, wore one of the latest Zipper Necklaces to the opening night of the Chanel Pavillion--a traveling exhibition created by Karl Lagerfeld and Zaha Hadid.

Check out the Urban Eye interview with Karl Lagerfeld and others who attended the evening.

Zipper Jewelry featured on Cool Hunting

Many thanks to Ezra Natalia who wrote a very insightful article about Zipper Jewelry. View the article first published on Cool Hunting's website here.

To read other features by Ezra Natalia, visit ezranatalia.blogspot.com/

full text from article below:

For Kate Cusack, the New York-based jewelery designer, costumer and wig-maker, her iPod's shuffle setting is an apt metaphor for the ups and downs of her hectic lifestyle, “The shuffle bounces all over the place and reminds me of music I like, but don't always remember to choose. Sometimes the song transition nicely from one to the next for a while, but other times there is a streak of things I am not in the mood for.“

Kate is one of those lucky NYC creative types, cobbling a living from various related pursuits, for whom every day is different. You can often find her at home steadily working in her studio or rushing all over Manhattan shopping for a show. But the young designer says her favorite days are those that combine everything, “when I can pick up supplies I may need for my zipper Jewelry while I am out looking for fabric for costumes.”

Her first Zipper Pin came about in 2002. Having recently finished designing and creating costumes for a children's dance theater company, she got her hands on bags and bags of zippers. Picking up on the current trends in fashion, the iconic Chanel Camellia and the sartorial thrift from the 1940s (designers used extra fabric from dressmaking as decorative elements), she started experimenting.

The resulting accessories reference the elegance of depression-era resourcefulness while simultaneously deconstructing fashion and costuming—not to mention their readymade aesthetic appeal. The curving, layered forms that Kate comes up with celebrate the sparkle of the metal teeth and the endless possibilities that the linear construction affords. A zipper is, after all, little more than a line, perhaps the simplest of design building blocks.

Her costume design career and zipper jewelry have grown on parallel, sometimes intersecting, tracks over the past few years. After spending four years studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art, creating costumes made of unlikely materials and collaborating with the community on parades and festivals, she moved back to New York. There, she found work designing costumes for a number of small off-off-Broadway shows, as well as at top NYC costume shop Parsons-Meares where she made costumes for Broadway and Disney.

Squeezing in stints as a window dresser, it was when creating five Marie-Antoinette-style wigs made entirely from plastic wrap for Tiffany & Co.'s 5th Avenue store, that her zipper jewelry first got noticed. The woman in the visual merchandising department who hired Kate admired the zipper pin she'd affixed to her jacket so Kate made the second zipper pin as a thank you.

Currently enrolled in a rigorous three-year MFA program at the Yale School of Drama, Kate continues to produce her line of zipper jewelry and recently finished designing costumes for a series of short plays based on the life of Barack Obama called "Obama Drama." And, of course, the one-woman wonder also finds time to maintain a blog called “Kate Update" for her most current work and magazine features, etc.

To buy zipper jewelry (the hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind pins, bracelets and necklaces start at $85, $110 and $400 respectively), shop through her Etsy store. Custom designs based on style and price are also possible by contacting Kate directly.

Zipper Jewelry at SOFA Chicago 2008

These new pieces will be available through the Snyderman Works Gallery at SOFA Chicago. (SOFA: Sculptural Objects Functional Art)

Golden Rope, Kate Cusack © 2008

Crown, Kate Cusack © 2008

Bouquet, Kate Cusack © 2008