Searching for a vocation, he thought he might be able to fashion jewelry from lucite. He began carving small earrings in his apartment from the material, selling them for $20 a pop on the streets in Soho. This is where rags turn to riches for Bittar. Though big department stores had agreed to carry his jewelry in the mid 90s and he’d designed furniture for…
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