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New David Pu’u Gallery Sneak Peek

New David Pu’u Gallery Sneak Peek

David had been working on a new edit of his online gallery for the past week and has been meticulously selecting from 400,000 + images of his immense library from recent and older work. These are some of the gems he unearthed, many of which have rarely or never been seen. Bookmark his website: www.DavidPuu.com [...]

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

Gratitude is something I feel more than ever now. Just an example: Last night my production manager (who is like family) in Bali and I had a “meeting” across oceans. We chatted and shared pictures via online messenger and email with our respective smartphones. It allowed us to be so close, as if we were [...]

Cause Collection – Four Surfers | Four Designs | Four Causes

Cause Collection – Four Surfers | Four Designs | Four Causes

I have a beautiful new collection coming out shortly (check www.BettyBelts.com starting May 10th). I’ve been busy tying up all the loose ends to get it on the site and available to you. Meanwhile, my S.O. David Pu’u, who shot all the designs and the women behind them, Team Betty, wrote a beautiful piece on [...]

What We Do.

David Pu’u is, as you probably already know, a very gifted photographer of beautiful things. He and I are both blessed to work with some amazing people, including twins Hailey and Sierra Partridge. Here is his most recent blog about what that means… Model Models by David Pu’u Recently, NYC based production company Silent Crow [...]

A New Year of Appreciation

The beautiful Balinese people who I have been working with for six years now on the production of Betty Belts and Betty B. can teach us a lot about generosity, love and appreciation. One thing I have never seen among the Balinese is a sense of entitlement. They practice gratitude every day with their daily [...]

Note From Bali: Enchantment (from August 30th)

Note From Bali: Enchantment (from August 30th)

Enchantment is the word that flows through my mind throughout this trip. Bali is incredibly enchanting. Inspiring… Gorgeous… The land of the Gods. We are almost done here. I’ve been working on new designs with my artisan friends and also with each of the young women from Team Betty who joined us for a portion [...]

A Distinctive Style Magazine Interview

http://adistinctivestyle.com/ This is an awesome online magazine, complete with soundtracks and short videos to go with the stories, a very hip must-read (See Kate Hudson on the cover). It’s the Vanity Fair of the sustainability movement. And even better, there’s an interview with me in it where I got a chance to talk about some [...]

Mary Osborne: Unintentional Icon

The lovely, always smiling Mary Osborne was the very first athlete I wanted on my surf team when I got started with Betty Belts in 2003. I asked her “Mary, I’m starting a surf team, will you be on it?”. And luckily she said gladly and we’ve done a lot together since. The man I [...]

Surfing Partridge Twins Show Their Glamorous Side

We had the twins down from Santa Cruz for the weekend, Betty Belts Team Riders Sierra and Hailey Partridge, a.k.a. “The Surf Twins”. These girls are among the marvelous female athletes that my company Betty Belts sponsors. They came to work with David (Pu’u) on a Bikini shoot for Hobie Swimwear. They are also sponsored [...]

Betty Belts Adds New Talent to the Surf Team: Asia Carpenter

A hand written resume in the form of a photo album came in to the Betty Belts headquarters in Ventura one day a few months back from 13 year old Asia Carpenter, her pretty face on the cover. I’d heard about her from the Partridge twins, who we discovered back in 2005 when they sent [...]

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