Anna Sheffield
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Anna Sheffield is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 jewelry designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...

 and entrepreneur. Anna designs jewelry for three of her own lines: Anna Sheffield Fine Jewelry, Bing Bang and Bespoke. She has also worked in collaboration with fashion designers such as Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...

 and Philip Lim and retail stores including Cole Haan
Cole Haan
Cole Haan is a fashion label that was founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1928.The name comes from founders Trafton Cole and Eddie Haan. Originally Cole Haan was a men's footwear label...

, Target Corporation
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...

 and Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that owns and operates five retail brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN....

 to create jewelry.

Biography

Anna Sheffield studied Fine Art in San Francisco, with a concentration on blacksmithing. After launching Bing Bang on the West Coast, Sheffield moved to New York in 2002. She started her Fine Jewelry collection in 2007. Anna sells her lines at high-end department stores including Barneys New York
Barneys New York
Barneys New York is a chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. The chain owns large stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale, and smaller stores in other locations across the United States.Brands sold include...

, Le Bon Marché
Le Bon Marché
Le Bon Marché is the name of one of the best known department stores in Paris, France. It is sometimes regarded as the "first department store in the world". Although this depends on what is meant by 'department store', it may have had the first specially designed building for a store in Paris...

, Joyce Hong Kong and others.

Awards

In 2007, Sheffield was nominated for a CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America
Council of Fashion Designers of America
The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. is a not-for-profit trade association of over 350 of America’s foremost fashion and accessory designers. As of 2009, Diane von Fürstenberg is the group's President and Steven Kolb is the Executive Director...

) Swarovksi award for accessories. 3

Sources

  • WWD http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/phat-baby-when-anna-met-andrew-field-day-2106680?full=true
  • CFDA http://www.cfda.com/index.php?option=com_cfda_content&task=press_display
  • Anna Sheffield Official Site http://www.annasheffield.com

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