Who is Betony Vernon? What is she? For one thing, she is tall. Juno-esque. “Titian-tressed,” as the movie magazines used to say back when they were promoting Technicolor.
More importantly she has, for 30 years, been a tireless advocate for sexual well-being and, whisper it, pleasure. Her Sado-Chic jewelry (made in Italy using gold and sterling silver), collaborations with Missoni and Jean Paul Gaultier, exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Musée d’Art Moderne—have blazed her on a boundary-defying trail as a 21st-century love goddess. Her life and work form a dizzying Venn diagram of art and fashion, design and desire.
