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CITY NOTES NYC

City Notes is born from a conversation. Part interview and part travel guide, City Notes takes its readers on a humble tour of a metropolis through the eyes of a creative professional. It’s an idiosyncratic close reading, an interview with a place via the loyalty and loves of some of its most prestigious ambassadors. In this edition wejetset follows Claudia Gold on a tour of her city, where she highlights her favorite places to eat, stay, see, relax & live. Click Read More to request your free copy of city notes, view additional photos and watch the trailer.

Claudia Gold’s fifteen-year evolution as an entrepreneur in New York is a textbook tale of self-starting hustle and creative versatility. In the early ‘90s Claudia was not only one of the few dedicated female graffiti artists in the city but also among the first anywhere to sign a symbol instead of writing a name. That eponymous claw organically grew to adorn t-shirts, hoodies, jewelry and one-of-a-kind reworked vintage as Claudia’s empire, an official business since 2002, expanded around her icon.

Uncompromising with her affiliations and keenly attuned to the problems of dilution and low standards in the world of streetwear, Claudia insists on bringing fresh ideas and new challenges to the boys’ club: her prestigious collaboration contract with NIke yielded the first artist sneaker by a woman for a woman, a hitherto undheard-of concept. Powerhouse Books published Bombshell: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money in 2007, a tribute to the astonishing breadth of her achievements as an artist and businesswoman. “I feel,” she says, “with my logo and my brand, coming as they do from a former life, that the possibilities are limitless…”

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