Sunday, September 27, 2009

New work...Custom Cuffs for E. Badu.


Erykah Badu has been one of my top clients for 10 years.
She and I are both intrigued by spiritual teachings
and symbols of enlightenment.
Below are images of the Khepera Cuff bracelets
I recently crafted for her by hand. Also known as Scarab,
large dung beetles from the eastern Mediterranean
and regarded as sacred in Ancient Khamit/Egypt.
Khepera is the manifestation of the rising sun,
rolling the sun along the sky.
Khepera also has the attributes of
self generation, self renewal and to become.

Cuffs are made of Sterling Silver with a
high polish finish.

I design a pattern to fit her wrists perfectly before
cutting the final pieces out of metal.

Below are images of Badu wearing classic
LWest pieces I designed custom for
her throughout the years. She owns dozens
more that I'll share during my
Vault page launch coming soon..

The first pair of leather cuffs I designed for Badu.
Tan fish cuffs with burned engraving.
She wore these for almost two years straight during
the Mamas Gun Tour.

On stage over seas wearing the
Grey Leather Stitched Fish Cuff Bracelets.

Custom Astro Pisces Pendant in Copper,
worn during the filming of the
Dave Chappelle Block Party movie in Brooklyn.

Badu pictured here wearing the first
generation prototype Nipple Bangles in Copper.

The 3rd generation design...perfection!
Available for purchase at www.tashawest.com

Ladder Copper cut out Cuff Bracelets.
One of her all time favorites she purchased two pairs.

Copper Hammered Ripped Cuff Bracelets.
very elegant and organic.















5 comments:

Renae B. said...

When I grow up I want to order AMAZING custom LW pieces like that one. :) Awesome work, babe. Let's GET IT!

Love Tasha West said...

Thanks Re! xoxo

Rebecca Casciano, Green Beauty + Wellness said...

gorgeous collection of badu'isms by ltw!

Unknown said...

one day when i'm rich, i'm going to order tons of tasha west jewelry!!! one day!!! soon i hope...

those pieces are DOPE!!! pete told me you were awesome, but i didn't know he meant THAT AWESOME!!! i can't WAIT to work with you on SOMETHING... ANYTHING! lol

Anonymous said...

truly works of sheer genius by miss lorraine natasha west... :)congrats on more and more creations!