
Foot First"True luxury means getting exactly what you want," says the custom shoemaker
George Esquivel. "I want to be the American version of Hermés." He and the singer Janelle Monáe wear his lace-ups.

The jewelry designer
Monique Péan (far left) and model Elettra Wiedemann wear her pieces; some are scrimshaw as well as woolly-mammoth ivory from Alaska.