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Accessories Designer Tiersa Nureyev’ Stella Fluorescent

Stella Fluorescent: a fashion-forward entity using innovative elements and production techniques to create stunning treasures.

Stella Fluorescent is a San Francisco-based design studio co-founded by Tiersa Nureyev and Erik Hilburn. Named after their daughter Stella, the studio’s focus is on making fashion-forward, thoughtful objects that take the form of accessories, jewelry, and textiles.

Nureyev, the creative head behind Stella Fluorescent, started her career as a dressmaker and seamstress before training as a fashion designer. After becoming a mother, she transitioned into working as a jewelry and accessory designer as well as an art teacher serving children and youth. This was all to gain flexibility for managing her work and home lives.

While in design school, she spent a great deal of time in the textile department, which fostered her love for materials and a material-driven creative production process. Her academic training helped her define and articulate the conceptual framework that updates her current professional practice.

For Nureyev, the decision to make accessories and jewelry rather than clothing was a practical one, as the financial and physical requirements were more attainable for a recent graduate and new mother.

In addition, her fascination with textile materials and techniques offered her a rich pathway to innovation by making objects that utilize and experiment with textile construction techniques. Nureyev is focused on manipulating linear fiber and other materials and in creating intimacy between objects, infused with meaning and tradition, and the body of whoever wears it.

Nureyev and Hilburn launched the brand, Stella Fluorescent, a name inspired by their daughter’s name Stella, which means ‘a star’, and Fluorescent is something that is ‘lit from within’—in other words, a radiant entity. The birth of their daughter was a significant perspective shift that gave them a new way to understand their ideas, how they wanted to show up, and how they would contribute to the world.

“What more encapsulates the spirit of creation than having a child? The feeling of boundless potential, and emotional resonance, a muse that symbolizes empowerment, amplified energy, a sense of glowing magic,” says Nureyev.

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