ARTIST · LAUSANNE

Lauren McHale is an American artist and designer based in Switzerland. After nearly two decades in fashion, including close to a decade at Emilio Pucci, where she became Head of Special Techniques and created work for figures including Beyoncé, she shifted her practice toward metalsmithing, gemstones and sculpture. Through LAMH, she creates one-of-one works that exist between jewelry, sculpture and artifact, combining precious metals with rare and unusual stones in molten, geological forms. Her work explores material, transformation and the idea of jewelry as a collectible object rather than a