Dolly Cohen
Dolly Cohen is a jewellery designer based in Paris. She specializes in custom mouth jewellery and has created grill designs for Madonna, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Drake, and Cara Delevingne.
Cohen worked as a dental technician before turning to grills around 2005. Cohen's grills are handmade to fit the teeth and jaw of the wearer. She makes the grills with chromium chromate. She makes a print and a plat, then sculpts a mold out of alginate. She uses yellow or white 18K gold.[1] She takes one day to make one gold tooth and refuses to recreate oral jewellery she has made in the past. She maintains a laboratory in Paris' seventh arrondissement.[1]
American rapper A$AP Rocky sought Cohen out after seeing one of her creations.[1] She has created multiple grills for Rihanna. One of the grills she created for Rihanna featured a delicate lip ring.[2]
During Givenchy's Fall/Winter 2015 show Cohen collaborated with Riccardo Tisci to create mouthpieces with vertical metal bars reminiscent of the mask worn by Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.[3] She also created grills for Hood By Air's Spring 2016 show.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Ellenberg, Celia (6 March 2014). "Introducing Dolly Cohen: The French Jewelry Designer Behind Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, and A$AP Rocky's Custom Grillz". Vogue.
- ^ Kallor, Amber (17 April 2015). "Grillz Experience a Feminine Revival". Style.com.
- ^ Wolf, Cameron (2 July 2015). "Meet the Woman Who Made the Grillz in Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" Video". Complex.
- ^ Screws, Nic (30 June 2015). "Getting Gold Grills Made With Amar'e Stoudemire in Paris". Bloomberg Business.