Brands
Mended Veil
Mended Veil was founded by designer and artist Daniel McDonald in 1995. McDonald was born in Los Angeles in 1971, moved to New York to study sculpture at Cooper Union, and was later a founding member of the experimental collaborative group Art Club 2000(1999-2000). Throughout the 1990s, Mended Veil produced accessories for runway shows and friends in cooperation with avant-garde D.I.Y. designers, Susan Cianciolo (Run Collection) Bernadette Corporation, Seth Shapiro (American Manufacturing) and United Bamboo. Mended Veil joined The News showroom in 2000. The line has since offered 13 collections, which use humor and absurdism to irreverently reflect a variety of themes culled from Gothic literature, science fiction, stage magic, politics, witchcraft and the natural sciences. Through an exploration of the symbolic language of major religious and secular mythologies, Mended Veil attempts to question the impulse for adornment and its function as a personal communicative device. An expansive inventory of consumer drek and semi precious materials, evocative found objects and commercially available beads from around the world are processed and combined with handmade components to produce these iconoclastic accessories.