By donna on August 18, 2010
This is something really cool from the ASR Trade show last weekend. We gave them a box of our hottest accessories and they ended up on almost every model in the show. Here’s an opportunity to see great ways to style the goods. My favorite is the two of my white bangles stacked with two [...]
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By donna on May 2, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in All, Products, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, modeling, philantrophy, photography, women's surfing | Tagged betty b designs, Betty Belts, cause designs, cause jewelry, David Pu'u, donna von hoesslin designs, inspirational jewelry, Jeanette Ortiz, Mary Osborne, new designs, Sierra Partridge, ventura, women's surfing |
By donna on April 5, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in All, Meaningful career, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, life, marketing, modeling, ocean, photography, surfing, travel, women, women's surfing | Tagged betty b., Betty Belts, brand identity, brand personality, branding, David Pu'u, Hailey Partridge, hobie, partridge twins, Sierra Partridge, sports modeling, surf photography, surfing twins, team betty, women in surfing |
By donna on September 19, 2009
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 [...]
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By donna on August 9, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Environmental, Products, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, modeling, photography, women | Tagged Betty Belts, distinctive style, Kate Hudson, sustainability movement, Vanity Fair |
By donna on April 14, 2009
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 [...]
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By donna on March 3, 2009
Congratulations to Mary, for getting this well deserved attention by one of our country’s biggest daily newspapers. Mary Osborne was the very first surfer to join the Betty Belts Surf Team way back in 2003 and I’ve watched her career explode over the years. By Sal Ruibal, USA TODAY On the surface, Mary Osborne looks [...]
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By donna on February 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By donna on January 18, 2009
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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By donna on January 2, 2009
David is on a roll! Here is yet another blog post from his busy fingertips. We did this photo shoot he is blogging about far away from our usual place in the ocean. It was off to the Desert with Betty Belts Team Riders Jeanette Ortiz and surfing twins Sierra and Hailey Partridge. I provided [...]
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