Glamorous GLAMOROUS PEOPLE, ART COLLECTORS & CHIC CHIC FASHION LOVERS LOVE LOVE LOVE MERCURA NYC Made in Manhattan, EYEWEAR & BODY ART & CROWNS MOST COPIED ORIGINAL SUNGLASSES, JEWELRY, EYEWEAR, ARMOR, CROWNS IN THE WORLD
MERCURA NYC: THE ORIGINAL PICASSOS OF EYE AND BODY SCULPTURE & CROWNS
Rachel Cohen & Merrilee
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GLAMOROUS PEOPLE, ART COLLECTORS & CHIC FASHION LOVERS LOVE LOVE LOVE MERCURA NYC Made in Manhattan, EYEWEAR & BODY ART & CROWNS MOST COPIED ORIGINAL SUNGLASSES, JEWELRY, EYEWEAR, CROWNS IN THE WORLDCurtis Eberhardt Photo mg-5mg-6 MERCURA NYC: THE ORIGINAL PICASSOS OF EYE AND BODY SCULPTURE & CROWNS ......poetic justice at the hotel chelsea Elton John Covers POP Magazine in Mercura Sunglasses at NYC News Stands GLAMOROUS PEOPLE, ART COLLECTORS & CHIC FASHION LOVERS LOVE LOVE LOVE MERCURA NYC ORIGINAL EYEWEAR & BODY ART MOST COPIED SUNGLASSES, JEWELRY, EYEWEAR, IN THE WORLD
Lily Nova covers Vogue Thailand January 2022 Beauty wearing Mercura Crystal Art Sunglasses, Rui Faria - Photographer Bobette Cohn - Fashion Editor/Stylist, Kim Brown - Beauty Editor, Martin Cullen
Allure Magazine The Genius Of Pat McGrath
Cover Story features Mercura Art to Wear February 2021
Mercura Baroque Sunglasses at Surreal Eyewear
Richard Burbridge - Photographer
Rajni Jacques - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Jimmy Paul - Hair Stylist
Pat McGrath - Makeup Artist
Amilna Estevao - Model
......poetic justice at the Hotel Chelsea and East Virginia
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only by the designers themselves going around the curves and
swirls of time peeking into the past and experiencing the future through flexible images to make life personal and unforgettable in any millennium
Anyone in MERCURA NYC can become a personality, be unforgettable in the experience, made for the person who dresses without fear and likes to be seen in the crowd and
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ultra art time travel....post modern, post surreal, inspired by all art and yet creates a feeling of its own, made by two sisters dubbed original Picassos of Eyewear (2006). Catch the light, become the ultra mystery.
They originated the round pot pearl sunglass in the mid 1980's, wires in the mid 1980s mixed with mirrors painted shapes in brass combined with saturated rich colors, the sunglass leash going directly across the frame and/or with multiple extensions,the sculpted built up crystal, pearl, multi-medium shapes extending into the frame, the first frames with large solid brass details sculpted and or/in multi-media paints on eyewear and then later sculpted cat ears, thicker wirework sculptures worked into eyewear and many more. They continue to have their design studio at the Chelsea and at a large work loft in the Virginia;
Richard Bernstein favored Mercura Artists, he made this potrait in the 1980's of Merrilee Cohen and Rachel Cohen
LEICA S Magazine, WORLD RENOWNED, cover features Mercura Sunglasses lensed by the famous ENRIQUE BADULESCU, style ROMINA HERRERA MALATESTA 2017
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Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen and Rachel Cohen-Lunning work together as MERCURA NYC. Together they designed metal body sculptures and art at the Hotel Chelsea in the mid 1970's. Artwork included unique fantasy pieces: metal dresses, metal bustiers, gauntlet cuffs, armor, headdresses, sprees,
crowns, metal hoods, and eyewear, cigarette holders, head ornaments, boxes and paintings and table mounted sculptures. They originated the round pot pearl sunglass mid-1980's, then wires in 1980s mixed with mirrors painted shapes in brass combined with saturated rich colors, the sunglass leash going directly across the frame and/or with multiple extensions,the sculpted built up crystal, pearl, multi-medium shapes extending into the frame, the first frames with large solid brass details sculpted and or/in multi-media on eyewear and then developed sculpted cat ears, thicker wirework sculptures worked into eyewear and many more. They continue to have their design studio at the Chelsea and at a large work loft in Virginia
Tyra Banks in round crystal Mercura covering Tyra & Elton John for POP Magazine
MERCURA NYC is and was worn by art lovers, celebrities, artists and intellectuals, from writers and art curators such as Danielle Steel, Linda Drabova, Natalie Angier, Nick Bienes, Rhea Gallaher, Stacy Engman, Elle Madrona to film makers such as Robert Dernhelm ,
Abel Ferrara and Shirley Clarke to photographers such as Greg Kitchen, Ellen von Unwerth, Mark Sink and Catherine Leroy to present day rising stars as the New Kids on the Block, and established celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, LESLEY ANN WARREN, STEPHANIE SEYMOUR, BEVERLY JOHNSON, HILLARY RHODA, CHARLOTTE FREE, LENA DUNHAM, ZOSIA MAMET, ALLISON WILLIAMS, JEMIMA KIRKE, Jacqueline Bisset, Guilietta, GREGORY DELLICARPINI, STACY ENGMAN, JOY ADAEZE, Debbie Gibson, Ivana Trump, AZEALIA BANKS, Candice Bergen, Avian, Daniela Wong, Belkis Rodriguez Hirsch, Barbra Streisand, Joan Collins, Maria Snyder, Tisch, Grace Jones,
LIBERTY ROSS, Cher, David Bowie, WINKY, SOLANGE KNOWLES, AFRIKA BAMBAATA, Stella Tennant, Nicki Minaj, JASON DERULO, Marianne Fox, Monsta Villa and Liv, Sarah Ashley Longshore, Gucci Mane, Joan Collins, Bobbie Brown, TYRA BANKS, Gina Davis, MACY GRAY, LADY GAGA, LELA ROSE, MIMI PLANGE, ADAM LAMBERT, STACEY BENDET, Emily Vancamp, Ryann Redmond, GypjaQ, Chelsea Schuchman, PATTI WILSON, SOFIA SIZZI, Khloe Kardashian, Cindy Crawford, Victoria Justice, Neon Hitch, MNDR, Kyreayshawn, Jim Landolphi, Natalia Kills, Rebecca Hessel Cohen, Carmen Electra, Lil Chuckee, Kat Graham, BELINDA CARLISLE, SHANNEN DOHERTY, Maryann Gentry, MACKENZIE FOY, Nicki, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charlotte Free, RITA ORA, Vali Meyers, LESLEY ANN WARREN, Christina Aguilera, Candi Lynn, Nicole Richie, Emmylou Harris, Beyonce, RICHARD BERNSTEIN, RIHANNA, Chloe Grace Moretz, SOPHIA AMORUSO, Sam Ratelle, Alice Glass, KELLY OSBURNE, ADAM LAMBERT, LAKEITH STANFIELD, BRITTANY HOWARD, PAT POWELL, IRIS APFEL, IGGY AZALEA, Wild Belle, Harper and Blynn, Hannelore Knuts, Dree Hemingway, Cole Mohr, LAKE BELL, Cara Delevingne, Alexandra Richards, Diandra Forrest, Shaun Ross, Hannah Holman, Wyclef Jean, TYRA BANKS, Jessica Hart, Lil Debbie, Annasophia Robb, Xosha Rockstar, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amber Rose, Nancy Glass, GRACE JONES, Don Majic Juan, Terence Koh, Haluk Akace, Philip Tracy, Tim William, Santigold, TAYLOR SWIFT, BEVERLY PEELE, Jasmin Le Bon, Sophia Goth, GRETA GERWIG,ORIETT DOMENECH, GIORGIO D'SANT ANGELO, ALDON JAMES, ROMIE DAVIS, OSCAR MONTES DE OCA, IGGY AZALEA, LANA DEL REY, Jim Landolphi, Jazmine Sullivan, Khia, Mila Jam, Bebe Rexha, JONZU JONES, Carla Bruni,Rose McGowan, Mykki Blanco, Tessa Thompson, Tia Carrere, Nina Sky, Moxiie, Chelsea Leland, Joy Adaeze, Tiffany Foxx, Paola Wong, Troy Artis, Rocky Hes, Iman,Sylvia Miles, BILLY PORTER, Sean O'Pry, Leebo Freeman, Paula Abdul, SKY FERREIRA, Kelly Lebrock, SHARON STONE, DEAP VALLY, CANDY BROOKE, ELTON JOHN, Geena Davis,SALLY JESSY RAPHAEL, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Taylor Mead, Derek Warburton Jamie Lee Curtis, Lil Kim, Tamara Barkley, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, DOMINIQUE SWAIN, Greg Ellis, Rinko KiKuchi, Al Roker, Jay-Z, Lebo Newman, Christy Turlington, ADAM LAMBERT, Sophia Amoruso, LAKEITH STANFIELD, Naomi Campbell, Madison Mobley, Kate Nash, Winky, Violet Chachki, Michael Musto, Nelly Furtado, Ivete Sangalo, EarthGang, Goldie Hawn, to name a few on the endless list.Some of these wearers are from the Hotel Chelsea NYC, others were magnetized by MERUCURA NYC'S work in New York and Virginia to Shang Hai to Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Mexico City, Dubai, New Dehli, Rio, Bangkok in unique museum shops, optical shops and fashion shows around the world.
Cohen, Mercura, 1985, wearing masterpiece designs sculpted in brass & silver & enamel including yolk, shield, butterfly mask(worn as belt), tiara floating to the shoulders, cuffs which were also worn as hair pieces, jewelry transitional, mercurial. photo by Ira Cohen, also featured in the NY Times
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Shannen Doherty wears Mercura crystal sunglasses Beverly Hills 90210
Greg Kitchen Portrait of Susan in MERCURA NYC EYEWEAR 2008
MERCURA NYC has been featured in gallery shows at the NOW Gallery NYC, Stuart Gallery NYC, EM Donahue Galleries (presently called Proposition Gallery) NYC, The Museum at FIT Splash exhibit NYC, the MICRO Gallery,the Puppenhaus Museum Basil Switzerland, the University of London Galleries, the Chocolate Trail Thailand, Room Service NYC Art Show at the Hotel Chelsea, The National Arts Club Gallery, The Metropolitan Musem of Art Fashion Institute show of 1999 and permanent collection, and museum shops as the Guggenheim Museum Store, the Store Next Door(at the Whitney), the Puppenhaus Museum Shop, the Albright Knox Museum Shop, the Chocolate Show, the New Museum, the Dublin Museum of Optometry, Livan Savino, and Surreal Eyewear NYC. Recognized for their Clearly recognizable by intense unique visionary qualities in well balanced expressionistic designs Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, Derek Warburton dubbed the "Picassos of NYC Eye and Body Sculptures." MERCURA NYC makes Body Sculptures and Eyewear of sculpted silver, brass or gold painted with jewelers' enamels or molten combinations of metals, or brass veined with silve r and/or bent, twisted, scrunched solid brass in signature museum pieces. Sunglasses are as armatures for MERCURA NYC who surround them with sculptures which act playfully with the face. Their eye art is made of an endless variety of materials.
35 pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute
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Greg Kitchen copyright photo Andy Warhol posed portrait before Andy said "I love them, make them twenty feet high and put big ropes where there are fine wires" of MERCURA NYC
Big metal wraps and dresses by MERCURA NYC shown with Giorgio Sant Angelo Couturier American Council of Fashion Design Award winner Collection of 1987 and in a 1999 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art fashion Institute are presently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute Collection.
above two hand cut brass pieces of MERCURA NYC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute Collection, on dresses as worn on Giorgio Sant Angelo catwalk 1987
MERCURA NYC works featured in Giorgio Sant Angelo Collections from 1975 to 1989 on the runway, and in magazines such as Interview and the Cover of British Vogue and S magazine STYLE INTERNATIONAL, also through time our pieces on the covers of many other magazines including Vanity Fair, TATLER Style, Numero, Cosmopolitan, Lula, Details, POP Africana, several Nylon Mexico Magazines,Marie Claire, Elle Madrona, The Untitled Magazine, Details, Detour, Hollywood Weekly, YEN, NO, New York Magazine several times, multiples of TYRA Magazine, ACCENT, New York Times Arts, FASHION Collection Magazine, The Official Tribute Issue Nicki Minaj, Minnie's ABC, Masquerade, XEX, uide to New York Fashion Week, W25 Chelsea NYC Magazine, W27 Chelsea NYC Magazine, Factoria, NOIR, Model's Digest, RIKA, Newsweek, FRESH Magazine, several New York Big City Style, Nicotine Magazine, The DAILY Front Row, The DAILY Dan, The DAILY Hamptons, POP Magazine, Oyster, Derek Loves Shopping,Boutique Magazine, Ghubar, Essence, G3, BLEU, Dimension, PushIt, ROUGE, NO Magazine, BG Magazine, Factoria, Portfolio Magazine, WestEast, Umbigo, multiple THE L Magazines, Eyequest, multiple Accessories Market Place Magazines, Multiple the NY Daily News, Tantalum, PRIDELIFE, INFASHION, Fault Magazine, Papercut Magazine, IN-Magazine, POPAfricana, XEX Magazines, ZOO, The Los Angeles Times Fashion, METRO UK, WWD Accessories, Madame Figaro, S STYLE Magazine of South China Post, etc. etc. etc. also on the covers of books including DAMES by Eric Boman, Dress Codes by Ruth Rubenstein;VOLCANO
by Jamila Garrett; sold most of all eyewear books, EYEWEAR RETROSPECTIVE: WHERE FASHION MEETS SCIENCE by Nancy Schiffer: and were also sketched into Betty and Veronica Comic books by Daryl Edelman, on billboards by Antonio Soares Portugal, Paola Wong for Pink Magnolia, AMERICAN DREAM, featured in Diana Marye fine
art illustrations, McAlpine Miller paintings Scotland, Allen Hirsch portrait of his wife Belkis, Antonio Soares Illustrations, in the latest hot fashion books by Katie Baron, STYLISTS: New Fashion Visionaries, LoveShackFancy sketch book, Jeffrey Williams illustrations, Pat Boone illustrations and the amazing multimedia paintings from New Orleans by Sara Ashley Longshore, You Don't Look Fat You Look Crazy by Sarah Ashely Longshore, GIRLBOSS big edition by Sophia Amoruso, several Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh and Helmet Newton books and gallery shows.
MERCURA NYC also participated in the Club Art and club Fashion Shows, pieces were hung in group shows with John Cage works at the Famous NYC Mudd Club, with Richard Hamilton works at Kamikaze, presented at the Limelight with Valentino's Clothes, another show at the Limelight featured MERCURA NYC on models in black tights(show also featured Robert Lee Morris Jewelry). MERCURA NYC was given full solo shows in New York City at the Roxy, the Society Club, the World, Club USA, the Limelight, the Underground, the World, MK's, The Palladium, The Mike Todd Room and, of course, shown at the National Arts Club, where big multi-media paintings and Body and Eye Sculptures were celebrated and hung on the National Arts Club NYC walls through winter-spring of 2000, at Toshi's NYC with International Fashionistas celebrating Mercura NYC for their 2013 publishing Anniversary, Room Service art show at the Chelsea Hotel with the art of Susan Olmetti, in photo exhibits by Annie Leibovitz and Helmet Newton, galleries of Livan Savino NYC and Surreal Eyewear NYC.
MERCURA NYC went on the runways with many couturier fashion collections including Valaya (The King of Couture INDIA), Falguni and Shane Peacock, Giulietta NYC, Many years of Pink Magnolia, Years of Giorgio Sant Angelo, Carlos Luna, Indashio, Oscar de la Renta, David Leigh, Curly Vee Velasquez, Oriett Domenech, Nasty Habits, Emigee Coouture, Mary McFadden, Vera Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Michael Forrest Furs, Barbie's 50th Anniversary International Designer Show, Grosvenor Furs,LoveShackFancy, Zandra Rhodes, Mia Grau Productions, Anna Molinari, Blumarine, Heatherette 2008 collection, BB Dakota Collection Book. MERCURA NYC is also styled into American and International movies, magazines and runways under our own name or clothing designer labels most recent certain have their shows up on Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Mexico, Vogue UK, Vogue India, Elle Mexico, MTV, Elle Italia, Numero, Cosmopolitan.
MERCURA NYC has been styled and published with famous designers clothing from Gaultier to Yves St Laurent to Calvin Klein to Gucci, to Donna Karan, Celine, Moschino, Chanel, Blue Marine, Victor and Rolf, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Valaya, Shane & Peacock, Dolce and Gabbana, Sonia Rykiel, Eric Bowman, Lanvin, Zandra Rhodes, Alberta Ferretti, Giulietta NYC, Giambattista Valli, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, more, more, more, more, more.............to new young rising designers as Soyoon Elly Park, Tanaka Ghosh and Andy Starkweather, also featured with precious jewels from Van Cleef and Arpels ,David Webb, Harry Winston,Cartier and Bulgari, Tiffany's, Chaumet Chanel Joaillerie, Schlumberger,Buccellati, Boucheron, Ralph Lauren Joaillerie Fortunoff, Louis Vitton .... . We were most inspired by meetings with Charles James, who never showed on the runway but is known as America's first and most influential couturier designer.And meetings with RRRCreative Sam Ratelle & Ryan Ratelle and they styled our sunglasses on Billy Porter The Best Dressed Man of GQ 2020 and The Oscar Red Carpet and Vogue at the MET annual party. Billy Porter is seen all over cable and national TV wearing his four pairs Mercura NYC sculpted crystal glasses and in magazines wearing Mercura NYC seven styles of Mercura sunglasses
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Writers we inspired included Judith Gould star character in their novel Forever,wearing our crystal sunglasses to look enticing and Jill Neimark's Bloodsong character who wears our alligator sunglasses as part of her personality in her acclaimed novel Bloodsong.
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Photos published of MERCURA NYC include those by Helmut Newton, Tom Munro, Ellen Von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, Greg Kitchen, Curtis Eberhardt, Ron Contarsy, Indira Cesarine, Gary Lupton, Frank Franca, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Anna Donovan, Oroma Elewa,Michael Comte, Eric Boman, Jack Pedota, Robert Dornhelm, Tim Francais, Catherine Servel, George Chinsee, Kristina Wilson, Gloria Nicola, Seth Sabal, Spiros Poros, Rachel Cohen-Lunning, Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, Luca Babina, Annie Lebowitz, Eric Martin,Amy Arbus and many many many more. We have magazine covers and pages from around the world that pasted together would be much taller than a one hundred foot high sculpture. Is this foreshadowing? Opticians across America tell us the newspapers and local filmmakers love MERCURA NYC! Video music stars such as Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Rita Ora, Lil Chuckee, Gucci Mane, Macy Gray, Jazmine Sullivan, Khia, Mila Jam, Wild Belle, Bobbie Brown, Neon Hitch, wear them in their top rated videos, and Tyra Banks wears them in several of her Shows.
black and white above, Gary Lupton Photos, Styled by Linda Drabova featured in Inspire Magazine
Petite blonde famous French Photographer, Catherine Leroy, at Hotel Chelsea Party wearing MERCURA NYC
hand cut brass as pieces of MERCURA NYC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute Collection, on dresses as worn on Giorgio Sant Angelo catwalk 1987
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We initially created believing and still do believe certain pieces will be used as models for buildings and fenestration for windows. Any Warhol suggested we make them all Catherine LeRoy took these photos below of Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, at their studio at the Hotel Chelsea in 1985, wearing their body sculpture creations, for an article that appeared in Italian, French, Japanese and German Magazines
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high. Robert Rauschenberg admired Catherine LeRoy took these photos of Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, at their studio at the Hotel Chelsea in 1985,wearing their body sculpture creations, for an article that appeared in Italian, French, Japanese and German Magazines in hand cut brass as pieces of MERCURANYC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute Collection, on dresses as worn on Giorgio Sant Angelo catwalk 1987
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below urls photos of Naima Mora by Eric Martin, styled by Marc Sifieuentes
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below are urls of Tom Munro photos, styled by Patti Wilson, in Japanese Vogue and Numero
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Hello Beautiful Urls photos by Eric Martin, written by Madison Mobley
http://hellobeautiful.blackplanet.com/your-glam/a-little-shady/
http://hellobeautiful.blackplanet.com/your-glam/qa-merilee-and-rachel-founders-of-mercura-eyewear/
http://www.now-gallery.com/ (some people we have shown with)
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/the_costume_institute/giorgio_di_sant_angelo/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=95&sort=2&sortdir=desc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=8&dd2=0&vw=0&collID=8&oID=80016083&vT=1
http://www.dripbook.com/eric_martin/book/mercurany/#107068 photos by Eric Martin
http://www.popafricana.com/issue1/#beaute photos by Elewa Oroma
http://www.covermagazine.biz/ please sign in to Cover Magazine archive #39, takes a few seconds, styled by Linda Drabova, photos Kristina Wilson
book , available at Barnes & Noble Eyeglass Retrospective: Where Fashion Meets Science by NANCY SCHIFFER, cover photo of MERCURA NYC by Greg Kitchen Schiffer Publications
http://susanolmetti.com/image/mercura/index.htm
Special thanks from MERCURA NYC to Andre Leon Talley, Peter Lindbergh, Greg Kitchen, Linda Drabova, Natalie Angier, Andrew Lerner, Elle Madrona CEO of International Fashionistas, Patti Wilson, Kyle Luu, Michael Kozak, Indira Cesarine, Tom Munro, Catherine Leroy, Italian Vogue, Taylor Kim, Andy Warhol, Christina Wilson, Gary Lupton, Curtis Eberhardt, Nancy Schiffer, Rick Caldwell, Leith Clark, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eric Martin, Richard Martin, Mark Sifieuentes, David Widjaja and Madison Mobley for their wonderful part. If images do not appear please check our Pinterest at Mercura NYC
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222 West 23rd Street #824
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Lela Rose NYFW S/S 2017, Pink Magnolia MBFWMx S/S 2017
Pink Magnolia spring/summer 2021
Sam Ratelle 2019
MERCURA NYC RECENTLY mid 2015-Present
Past five years on stage include Pink Magnolia 2010-2021-ongoing, Adam Lambert in his SUPERPOWER Video 2020, Iggy Azalea Eau de Juice ad 2019, American Dream Campaign 2021, BB Dakota winter 2015, Billy Porter On stage at the Oscars 2020, Tonys 2019, NYC Pride Parade 2019,Dancers Masquerade Gala 2018, TV SHows 2019-21-ongoing, Interviews 2019-21-ongoing featuring Billy Porter, RRRCreative Cleopatra campaign, Yas Clean Scentiva Campaign 2021, Surreal Eyewear Gallery Campaigns 2010-21-ongoing, Lela Rose NYFW S/S 2017, GypjaQ campaign 2016, 2019 Holiday Emigee Couture, Ryann Redmond at the TDF Gala 2019, Chanel Suit Billdboards by Antonio Soare 2015-ongoing books, Sam Ratelle Celebrity Appearance 2019-ongoing, 2021 Pat McGrath cosmetic ads-ongoing, Burning Man August 2016, DanteWuzHere videos & campaigns 2020-2021-ongoing,Sarah Ashley Longshore wikipedia & books ongoing, Sall Jessy Raphael campaign ongoing, Victoria's Secret Paris, August 2016 (styled by Elizabeth Sulcer) 2021 Newest Lionbabe Video "It's OK" out September 15/21-more videos-ongoing featuring Mercura Bustiers, Crown and Sunglasses, and many more ongoing, we are always showing and selling at our Chelsea
Always making artist body works and art sunglasses worn by top performing artists around the world include, Christina Aguilera, Gucci Mane, Monster Villa & Luv,Avian, Lena Dunham, Accessorized Giorgio di Sant Angelo 1987 year his brand won COTY Award, and from 1977-1987
Accessorized Oscar de la Renta 1977
Accessorized COTY award-winning Mary McFadden 1989 & 1990
Eyewear, Sunglasses for Vera Wang 1994
Eyewear, Sunglasses for Award-winning Mimi Planga 2010, 2011
Eyewear, Sunglasses, Lela Rinner, S 2017
Eyewear, Sunglasses for award-winning Valaya ( King of Couture India) 2011
Eyewear, Sunglasses for award-winning Falguni & Shane Peacock 2013
Eyewear, Sunglasses for CFDA nominee Giulietta NYC 2013
Eyewear, Sunglasses for Pink Magnolia; 2010-2021 for pointed to be Award-winning applauded by critics collection
Eyewear, Sunglasses for J J Valaya King of Couture f/w 2012
Eyewear, Sunglasses for award-winning Adrian Alicea Pleiadian Vogue S/S Collection 2015 and many more...
Eyewear, Sunglasses for CFDA Award winner Lady Gaga 2009 in Rouge Magazine Cover, later in Telephone Music Video, then on the cover of Madame Figaro, Inside Fashion Magazine, and in Marry the Night and Vanity Fair photographed by Annie Leibovitz, about town in newspapers
Eyewear, Sunglasses for Rita Ora, Elle Fanning, Rihanna, Elle Fanning, Miley Cyrus, Candice Bergen, Santigold, Madonna, Joan Collins, Tyra Banks, Nicki Minaj, Mila Jam, Elton John, Halle Berry, Ivana Trump, Charlotte Free, Natalia Kills, Justin Davis, Jason Derulo, Fifty Cent, Debbie Harry, Taylor Swift, Taylor Mead, Ashley Longshore, Grace Jones, Cher, Charlotte Free, Drew Barrymore, Shirley Clark, Dree Hemingway, Jay Z, Al Roker, Q-Tip, Rachel Cain(Screamin), Brittany Snow, Ashley Smith, Hannah Holman, Shannen Doherty...and many more award-winners
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Elton John covers Collector's Issue of POP Magazine in Mercura Sunglasses
WOW< these issues are still on the News Stand. In conversation with a stylist yesterday, TK
did say, "That is a BIG cover" and we have found this is also a "BIG" issue, full of splendid art and fabulous appreciation of new stars and established stars. Inside the Guggenheim Edition are amazing interviews, including super interview by Louise Gannon with Elton John, and an amazing spread of the new Belnciaga line on a living doll with masks.
On the net they are $45 delivered, at the news stands $15.95
31K View Download Peter Lindbergh photographer image for Italian Vogue styled by Patti Wilson model Bela Luogosia sunglass blocker by Mercura NYC for Mercura Sunglasses also featured in best seller Stylists: New Fashion Visionaries recently by Katie Baron
Vogue features Mercura NYC floral crown in Pink Magnolia Fiesta s/s MBFWMx 17 https://lnkd.in/eT3PkKU
Lela Rose feature Mercura NYC daisy sunglasses s/s 17 runway 15 pair Vogue feature
Mercura Painted Cat Ears Cover Numero,Mercura Painted Cat Ears Cover Numero,our cat ears are worn by Nicki Minaj, Camille Bidault Waddington, Dree Hemingway, Jessica Stam, Brittany Snow, Rocky Hes, Rita Ora, Kreay Shawn, Taylor Kraemer, Kate Nash, Khia, Oh Land, Lady Gaga(in the street and in Telephone video), to name some, on the runway Barbie NYC 50th anniversary runway Mercedes, Rodebjer, Nima, Adrian Alicea, Pink Magnolia.
making our golden girl cat ears since the 1980's (Neon Hitch wore hers to a MBFW)
WWD interview with Merrilee & Rachel Cohen of Mercura NYC photographed by Thomas Iannaccone
Pat McGrath Cosmetics ad featuring Mercura Art to Wear Baroque Golden Girl Sunglasses August 2021
Richard Burbridge - Photographer
Rajni Jacques - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Jimmy Paul - Hair Stylist
Pat McGrath - Makeup Artist
Amilna Estevao - Model
DECLARED MOST OUTRAGEOUS LADY GAGA ENSEMBLE Nearly a decade after Madame Figaro (is to Figaro News Paris as the T magazine to the NYT, available as a separate magazine around the world, including China, in Chinese Figaro cover & cover story magazine available on eBay 2022)) Lady Gaga wearing Mercura Sunglasses cover published , styled by Nicola Formichetti, photo Mariano Vivanco, hair Bob Recine, Make up Billy B, dress by Irina Shaposhnikova https://meandmylifestyleblog.com/.../lady-gagas-10-most.../
SEE MEARCURA SUNGLASSES NEWEST PRESS RELEASE 2021 EDITED BY CLAUDIA KITCHEN ON LINKEDIN OR MERCURA SUNGLASS SOCIAL MEDIA
Newest, July 11, 2024, Mercura covers stylelujo.com in an interview photo shoot which lasted 3 days by Joseph DeAcetis (top international stylist) New release https://www.stylelujo.com/the-artistic-renaissance-of-mercura-eyewear-as-avant-garde-art/ discusses Mercura Sunglasses from an interview 3 day photo shoot with Joseph DeAcetis, Agata Drogowska photos by Macrae Marran All about Mercura Sunglasses showing at the Hotel Chelsea NYC Thank you Joseph DeAcetis for your personal unique interpretation, words and art direction, of Mercura Sunglasses, in your publication of Style Lujo, July 11, 2024 "The Artistic Renaissance of Mercura Eyewear as Avant Garde Art" We love the incredible photography of Macrae Marran @styleluj0.com @macraemarran @mercuranyc @mercuraart @corymcdz @montebezsll @jonzu @kurtmcvey @stylelujo @geraldbusby
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New book RENOIR AND OPTICS written by Merrilee Cohen and Illustrated by Robert Smith available in hard copy and Kindle from amazon.com A good free read about the book and place to comment on the book is at renoiroptics.com
Recent Interview:StyleLujo Magazine portrait of Mercura, July 11, 2024, Cohen Sisters, Rachel Cohen(l) & Merrilee Cohen(r), at Hotel Chelsea, wearing crystal pop art and pearl veil sunglasses, hovering over other Mercura multi material art to wear Sunglasses. Their work is on cover pages of that issue, after being interviewed by Author & Fashion Director Joseph DeAcetis, Photography Macrae Marran, Film & Style Manager Agata Drogowska at the Hotel Chelsea @josephdeacetis @agatadrogowska6
