Lou zeldis biography
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Ever since I had my daughter a little over two years ago, my approach to jewelry has changed. The majority of pieces on my wish lists center around beautiful gems that honor and celebrate my little girl. My first Mother’s Day fell right around the week that I was returning to work from maternity leave, and rather than being focused on my back-to-work wardrobe, all I could think about was wearing a piece of jewelry that would make her feel close to me no matter where I was. Later that year, during our first holiday season as a family of three, I asked my husband for a gold medallion charm with all three of our first initials. Also, that season, I gave my mother a locket with my daughter’s picture inside.
Last year, I was drawn to jewelry that incorporated garnet, which is my daughter’s birthstone. To be honest, I wasn’t overly excited about this particular stone (I’m a spoiled sapphire baby), but I worked with a jeweler in New York who understood the plight of that other red stone. Together, we waited until the perfect garnet with the perfect shade came along and used it for a signet ring, and now I can’t take my eyes off it.
This year, I’m more focused on timeless pieces that work for both of us regardless of age or decade. I’m looking for simplicity more than anything els
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The LoUniverse Gallery
All About LoU…
LoU Zeldis was born in NYC in 1944. From an early age he had an affinity for the performing arts and when his family moved to California, he began a formal study of ballet. His father, a pathologist at UCLA, researching the effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, moved the family to Japan when LoU was in high school. These two years in Japan exposed LoU to a culture that would inform his sensibilities for the remainder of his life.
By 1963 LoU was back in the USA, working on Broadway under the direction of Bob Fosse in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ and dancing beside Ann Margaret in the film rendition of ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’ In 1965 LoU traveled to Vietnam performing for the troops with Mary Martin in a touring production of ‘Hello Dolly’
As LoU explained, by the late 1960’s he was so immersed in psychedelic drugs and mind expansion that Broadway held little interest for him. He became a world traveler; diving into experimental theatre with such luminaries as Andre Serbin, performing for the Shah of Iran and working with iconic director Peter Brook, where he and Helen Mirren became close friends as they toured the African continent in Brook’s ‘Conference of the Birds’
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