Ferrara Jewelry
Anthony Ferrara graduated from the Boston School of Fashion Design; he traveled to Italy to study the art of custom tailoring. Upon his return to Massachusetts, he opened a small couture shop for women where he began experimenting with metal mesh as trim on couture fashions.His first widespread success with mesh apparel was sparked by an invitation to participate in a Boston fashion show. Ferrara created a dramatic mesh swimsuit and from there started making clothes out of metal mesh. The excitement the swimsuit generated in Boston led to a special association with Whiting & Davis. At that time, Whiting & Davis was the world’s leading producer of metal mesh. Ferrara interlocked metal links formed from rings of solid brass, aluminum or stainless steel, plated or enameled, and polished it to a brilliant finish. It draped like fabric while providing the longevity of metal.
Ferrara was asked to be the exclusive designer of their ready-to-wear line, which was marketed worldwide where he worked for seventeen years. Today , Ferrara has his own company that sells fashion forward accessories including jewelry, handbags and belts out of metal mesh. Ferrara designs have been worn by such superstars like Paulina, Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. His designs have been featured on the pages of the world’s most prestigious fashion magazines: Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Italia and many more. Anthony Ferrara has worked with Gianni Versace, Missoni, Emmanuelle Kahn, Courreges and Paco Rabanne among others.
In 1990, Ferrara was commissioned to create an exclusive fashion for the famous Absolut Vodka ad campaign, the same campaign which previously featured the art of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring plus the fashions of Marc Jacobs and David Cameron. The ad “Absolut Ferrara” showcased a shimmering sterling silver mesh mini dress and turban. Ferrara was the only designer asked to create more than one garment for Absolut. Also in 1990, Ferrara created a $532,000 18 karat solid gold dress, advertised as “Absolut Fashion.”
As the foremost designer working in metal mesh today, Anthony Ferrara creates wearable art. He loves working with mesh because nothing else behaves like it on the body. He understands how mesh is made and knows what it can do. With his talent and imagination, he continues to explore new finishes, patterns and textures for the FERRARA clothing and jewelry lines.
