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.
Biography
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. 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.
American rapper A$AP Rocky sought Cohen out after seeing one of her creations. She has created multiple grills for Rihanna. One of the grills she created for Rihanna featured a delicate lip ring.
During Givenchy's Fall/Winter 2015 show Cohen collaborated with Riccardo Tisci to create mouthpieces with vertical metal bars reminiscent of the mask worn by Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. She also created grills for Hood By Air's Spring 2016 show.
References
- ^ Ellenberg, Celia (6 March 2014). "Introducing Dolly Cohen: The French Jewelry Designer Behind Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, and A$AP Rocky's Custom Grillz". Vogue. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
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- 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.