The Contour of Luxury Fall/Winter 2018 | Page 98

Alexis Day Loree, your life’s career journey is one that most people can only wish for, but you somehow manifested into your reality. Share with us a bit on how it is that you landed 3 successful careers in the ways that you did? It is pretty extraordinary, to say the least. Loree Rodkin Luck... Would love to tell you I had a grand plan for my careers, but all were accidental. Alexis Day You must have an astonishing interior design style to have attracted Rockers such as Alice Cooper, Rod Stewart, and others. What is the back-story on your accidental interior design career, which led you to be an interior designer of the homes for the rock glitterati? Loree Rodkin God my interior design career started with Don Henley sending me to interior design school and next? My then fiancée a songwriter, Bernie Taupin, having an empty house and friends like Rod and Alice and the rest is history so they say. Alexis Day From successful interior designer to an unlikely Talent Manager, yet a successful one, to such A-list celebrities as Robert Downey Jr., whom I love, good lookin’ Brad Pit and my girl Sara Jessica Parker, you have once again segued into a new career direction as a jewelry designer. Your achievements speak volumes about your level of creativity, adaptability and bravery. What influenced you most to make a move between each career transition? Were you ready to move on each time? Loree Rodkin Certainly wasn’t a grand plan or even a dinner d minute plan... More like career a.d.d, and not being smart enough to not be afraid to bounce... Really my life unfolded for me.