To best describe this multi media artist, as quoted by Vogue Japan, “Bella’s creativity is equally matched with her passion for the arts, and her innovative approach is inspiring. To watch her create is an experience; it’s mesmerizing to see this gamine doll faced beauty in her element. Nothing around her exists except for her canvas in front of her and to create art. There’s something magical about watching her that’s intoxicating because of her conviction with her vision. She has a loud voice, her vision is razor sharp.”
     Wearing as many hats as she does, Bella immediately thanks and had the deepest gratitude for her formal art school training at Otis College of Art and Design to which she calls “invaluable” - for her to create art with no boundaries- shuttering at the thought of being confined to just one medium. 
“I just need a canvas- and the medium will then come.” As told in a recent interview with Vivi Magazine.
From fashion styling high fashion editorials for publications of gravitas, pitching concepts and art directing ad campaigns, contracted to fashion design for various companies worldwide, traveling with personal clients on tours, press junkets, costume designing 2 film shorts and 1 full feature thus far- all while picking up an award for best art direction and costume design for the film short “Lay It On Me”- which did a full sweep at the International Film Festival when debuted in Nice in 2016- this charismatic creature can barely contain herself when she brings up collaborating with her idol Alejandro Jodorovsky. 
     “Well you will never know unless you ask. And in my mind I had nothing to lose. So I took my savings, traveled halfway across the world and went to find Alejandro- from being thrown down a flight of stairs by his manager Josiane Stroh- to his supposed “protégé” Moreno – waiting 6 ½ hours at Café Terrasse where he used to read Tarot-“ (she pauses to take a deep drag from her Marlboro Red and scratch the top of her beloved teacup Yorkie Saint Jude’s head)- “well let’s just say he’s a mean creature- that doesn’t hold onto anything that Jodo stands for, just living off of the glory of being able to ride the tails of his coat that Jodo allowed him to sit next to. He didn’t take in anything that he was trying to teach him- poor thing” (as she rolls her eyes stamping out her cigarette). In her three months in Paris, she was contracted for another 3 months to design from the ground up a collection for Josephine Bonair- found Alejandro- to which she felt like she finally “made sense”- and “felt normal for the first time”. This led to the next 2 ½ years of Bella traveling back and forth between Paris and Milano, having to come back to Los Angeles for 48 hours because of Visa restrictions, and with Alejandro , she created the pen and ink hand rendered illustrations for his new book of poems, “Sowing Seeds”. 
      Bringing the pictures in her head to life is a high Bella says she can never get enough of and “it just keeps getting better”. 
Her ability to tell stories - that are visually exciting and mentally enticing has caught the eye of some of the fashion critic heavy hitters, and has been honored by Elle Japan as the U.S “style master” 5 years and a row thus far... and the “new face of fashion” by Vogue Japan, as a photo of her hangs in the prestigious Cormo Cosca gallery in Milano- when it ran in an issue of Vogue Italia in 2015, catching Franca’s attention and was immediately put up in her gallery, and the prints are still selling strong.
      One rarely at a loss for words, it’s a beautiful vulnerability when I bring up Vogue Italia to Bella. As she blushes looking down and biting her lip shaking her head- she just softly says how proud her mom would be- and how much she wishes she could be there to see it in real life together. 
And the photo is just Bella being herself. Her friend Sisilia Piring asked if she could come over one day when she was working out of home, and the photo series has ended up in everything from Juxtapose magazine, Paper, Dazed and of course permanently a part of the galleries print collection. 
     The beauty lies that she’s just being herself, and Sisilia was a fly on the wall candidly catching this eccentric little artist run around her fashion castle, nonchalantly chopping tomatoes in her kitchen wearing a lynx fur coat, her hair in curlers, wearing her new favorite silver cutout laser platform Giuseppe Zannotti shoes, making a caprese salad. 
Her authenticity as an artist is truly that. It’s real. She’s one of the rare ones. A real one. 
Eloquently and beautifully said by a dear friend and one of the strongest voices in the industry in Paris, Barbara DiLorenzo of Josephine Bonair, “Bella doesn’t do art- she is art- tu comprend?”