You may recognize this local designers funky fresh vintage pieces from  this year's Gold Globes or from one of the many boutiques carrying her line, but Vintage Glo is just getting started. With her designs fresh off the runway at New York City's Fall 2010 Fashion Week, Vintage Glo designer, Gloria Bass is definitely basquing in the glory. 

She recently took the time to sit down with me for a few words on her one of a kind pieces, here's what she had to say. 

JL: How did you get started? 

VG: I got started from just loving old things from furniture down to trinkets from an early age of 10 years old. Before my house looked like a museum that is decorated with antique furniture and trinkets, I had to find another way to keep going to the flea markets, thrift stores, garage sales and antique shops. And that was making jewelry. My sister was living with me at the time and I started a collection of vintage jewelry this and that and made the connections to make a necklace or bracelet for her and I. I say connections because thats pretty much what I was doing. I had never put jewelry together and never took a class. I am self taught from the beginning. Anyway, my sister said that I needed to stop giving her pieces and I need to sell them. I thought she was nuts but being the web designer she is, she started making a website for me and came up with my name Vintage Glo (Glo is what I was called in high school). Well, she got me excited and she gave me back all her jewelry and told me to go sell. I took my so called designs to the Irvine Swap Meet and was asked from a store owner, Jenny from Patina Boutique, if I would like to sell my jewelry in her store. That was the confidence I needed to go and introduce Vintage Glo Jewelry line to other boutiques. I had 4 stores carrying my line in the first 3 months I was in business. Thanks Sis!

JL: Where would you say your biggest inspiration comes from?

VG: My biggest inspiration came from a friend, Tami Hichman, who also is a designer of vintage jewelry, Relics by Tami. Her rosaries were my favorite. I took it a couple steps further and embellished the center saint and the cross with vintage rhinestone choker chain.

JL: Your pieces are always so fun and feminine, do you plan it that way?

VG: Since there is bling in all my work, it will be feminine everytime and since most of the time I have no forththought of what I'm going to create until I settle into my chair, it becomes a fun piece.

JL: Does the design just come to you as your making it?

VG: Again, yes, it comes to me as I'm making it. That is why I love what I do, I get to surprise myself too.

JL: Working with vintage jewelry and with all your pieces being one of a kind, how to maintain your edge?

VG: I don't even think about it until I'm asked this question by my clients. I just do it! I have to say I amaze myself sometimes because I refuse to look thru fashion magazines to see what the latest trend is.
That would just mess me all up.

JL: So how do you keep it funky?

VG: I guess because I like to think out of the box, I love different things, and being a spunky person myself, it ends up being funky.

JL: As an artist, if every piece you make is a work of art. A small part of you that's out in the world, what message are you sending?

VG: I know everyone has that "work of art" in them. They just have to find it within themselves, fall in
love with it and own it.

JL: What's your vision?

VG: It's simple: That I keep the joy of loving what I do! And if I do that, then I will see the joy in my customers as well. 

For more information, visit her at Vintage Glo. Don't forget to check out the slideshow are a peak at some of her pieces!