About Karlene | Lapin Luxuries

Some dreams don't disappear — they just wait for you.

At 17, I had a seat waiting for me at fashion school. Life had other plans. I became a mother, then a nurse — spending years pouring myself into caring for everyone else. The dream of fashion, of beauty, of creating something that made women feel something… I tucked it away.

But it never left.

Lapin Luxuries is what happens when a woman finally chooses herself. Every piece I curate — the jewelry, the gifts, the little luxuries — is chosen with intention, for the woman who has been everything to everyone and is finally ready to be something for herself.

I may have taken the long way to get here. But I arrived. And I brought New York with me.

Welcome to Lapin Luxuries. It's finally your turn.