Like Fran Drescher pouring coffee wearing a Todd Oldham stars-and-stripes skirt set, Katerina's style expresses all the ebullient accoutrements of what makes a designer logo so alluring.
Matt and Viviana of THNK1994 fame are in the prettiest motel room I've ever seen in Hawaii. They've been watching a lot of Baywatch and making homemade chia pudding that glows like tiny ocean crustaceans.
Kat talks to us about her process of repurposing deadstock jeans and dresses, that time Dua Lipa wore her jeans, and the "sexy, groovy and fun" iconography of her world.
She created the environment of an imaginary press conference where the minimalism of Swedish courtrooms mixed with hot-pink-and-orange symbols of luxurious power, like a Barbie-dollhouse Range Rover key.
"I’m inspired by the history and all of the weird geniuses who have lived here. I recently discovered that Irv Robbins of Baskin Robbins had a house in the Encino hills with an ice cream cone shaped pool!"
"I have a problem with people ascribing bright colors and fun subject matter to children only. Who decided that! A really boring person probably and that's not who my pieces are for."
Scrolling through her finds makes us feel like we're with her in an intimate boutique in her hometown of Miami, poring through '80s trading cards featuring California beach babes, Betty Boop necklaces, dark 'n' dreamy floral corsets, and handbags made of pink faux fur and denim.