Trendsetting jewelry and accessories combining metal and textiles to create an edgy rock and roll esthetic. Competitively priced and made in Brooklyn.

Designer Lisa Fortin has been creating handcrafted jewelry and accessories from within New York City's most progressive neighborhoods for nearly 10 years. She recently relocated from the burgeoning art community of Bushwick to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's well-established heart of music, art, and fashion.

Steel Couture is what happens when rigid metals are manipulated to create soft and feminine shapes. Each piece reflects Lisa's innovative styling, intricate attention to detail, and rock-n-roll aesthetic. Distinctive findings keep her work fresh and unique.

Lisa got her start in 1997 creating costumes made from chainmail, intricately woven armor traditionally used on medieval battlefields. Shakespearean actors, fire dancers, aspiring rock stars, and a hollywood sweetheart have all donned Lisa's work. A dedicated artisan and entrepreneur, Lisa began exploring other mediums that are similar to woven chainmail in their construction, such as knitting, crocheting, and braiding with wire and chain.

The premier Steel Couture collection developed an immediate following and was carried in fashionable boutiques around New York. In subsequent years, Steel Couture was featured Lucky, and Nylon, and Daily Candy. The line is now available nationwide and in Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, and Mexico.

Brooklyn's creative fashion scene and industrial surroundings serve as constant inspiration. The current handcrafted collection recalls the timeless Stevie Nicks with supple suede, feathers and fringe.

In the summer of 2007, Lisa and her husband, a watchmaker, opened a storefront in the heart of Williamsburg, where watches are serviced and emerging designers are debuted. They live behind the shop in a garden apartment with their daughters, Clara Fae and Lily June.