Dolly Cohen Explained

Dolly Cohen is a jewellery designer based in Paris. She specializes in custom mouth jewellery and has created grill designs for Madonna, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Drake, and Cara Delevingne.

Biography

Cohen worked as a dental technician before turning to grills around 2005. Cohen's grills are handmade to fit the teeth and jaw of the wearer. She makes the grills with chromium chromate. She makes a print and a plat, then sculpts a mold out of alginate. She uses yellow or white 18K gold.[1] She takes one day to make one gold tooth and refuses to recreate oral jewellery she has made in the past. She maintains a laboratory in Paris' seventh arrondissement.[1]

American rapper A$AP Rocky sought Cohen out after seeing one of her creations.[1] She has created multiple grills for Rihanna. One of the grills she created for Rihanna featured a delicate lip ring.[2]

During Givenchy's Fall/Winter 2015 show Cohen collaborated with Riccardo Tisci to create mouthpieces with vertical metal bars reminiscent of the mask worn by Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.[3] She also created grills for Hood By Air's Spring 2016 show.[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Celia. Ellenberg. Vogue. Introducing Dolly Cohen: The French Jewelry Designer Behind Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, and A$AP Rocky's Custom Grillz. 6 March 2014. 2 July 2015. 25 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161025195541/http://www.vogue.com/866542/dolly-cohen-designer-behind-cara-delevingne-rihanna-asap-rocky-grillz. dead.
  2. News: Amber. Kallor. Grillz Experience a Feminine Revival. Style.com. 17 April 2015.
  3. News: Meet the Woman Who Made the Grillz in Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" Video. Complex. Cameron. Wolf. 2 July 2015.
  4. News: Getting Gold Grills Made With Amar'e Stoudemire in Paris . Bloomberg Business. Nic. Screws. 30 June 2015.