We’re celebrating exceptional ladies within the worlds of meals and design all through Ladies Are Wonderful Month (aka Ladies’s Historical past Month, Food52-style). Is there a girl we must be profiling? Tell us.
Virginia Sin, the founder and artistic director of Brooklyn-based ceramics and residential items model, SIN, has lengthy been a part of the Food52 group. We’ve been fortunate to hold her lovely, considerate work in our Store for over a decade, and anxiously await her new designs every season.
Not too long ago, we visited Virginia at her new, expanded Brooklyn studio to be taught extra about her profession, SIN’s evolution, and her love for Martha Stewart.
Is creating one thing you get pleasure from or is it one thing that you must do?
Virginia Sin: I really feel like they don’t should be mutually unique. When pivoting between enterprise choices and artistic choices, I believe there’s undoubtedly a steadiness and an artwork kind to juggling all of it.
When did you understand that is what you needed to do?
I believe that entrepreneurship has been part of me since I used to be a small baby. Earlier than Sin, I labored in promoting for 12 years. However, on my first day on the job, I used to be sitting in a cubicle all day and it crushed my soul. Then later—after years of constructing manufacturers—I noticed I needed to construct a model of my very own. I simply knew that that is what I wanted to do.
What a part of your work are you most pleased with?
Having the ability to develop an excellent ownable, visible language—being a product that somebody appears at and acknowledges as a SIN design has at all times been one thing that I labored actually onerous in the direction of.
How does being a girl affect your work?
I’ve at all times been actually passionate and dedicated to creating certain thatI generally is a actually sturdy chief and that I’m in a position to lead by instance. And it’s tremendous necessary to me to empower my group and make them really feel like they’re not solely valued, however simply so extremely expert and gifted—and that they’ll do no matter it’s that they need to obtain.
Who’s essentially the most inspiring girl in your trade?
I at all times take into consideration Martha Stewart. She’s reinvented herself, remains to be so related and simply so resilient. So, yeah, I believe she’s a very good one.
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