Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff peddles $5K textiles at NYC cannabis shop

nypost.com:

hitting New York’s art scene. Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter opened her textile exhibition at a cannabis store on the Lower East Side Thursday — where she peddled knit portraits for several thousand dollars.Ella Emhoff — whose father is second gentleman Doug Emhoff — debuted her knit pieces, which she said marks her transition out of the fashion world and into her new phase of life as an artist.“This new art form kind of was birthed out of my knitwear, where I started kind of playing around with this duplicate stitch technique,” Emhoff, 24, told The Post during her reception at Gotham NYC, billed as a “woman-owned legal cannabis concept store on the Bowery.”“But I found that no one really wanted to wear all of this stuff, because it’s kind of crazy and loud, but they liked looking at it.

So then I just started experimenting. And now I’m here.”Fourteen of the first stepdaughter’s textile pieces were on display among the shop’s various marijuana accessories, the proceeds of which would go directly into her own pocket, she said.Emhoff declined to address rumors the exhibition was a fundraiser for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a controversial anti-Israel organization she caught fire for publicly supporting just last month.Each piece was modeled after items, people and pets that Emhoff said “just kind of makes you smile.”“Because these are all just objects [in the art] that I like, and I like looking at but they obviously evoke some kind of happy emotion from people, because it’s a recognizable object in yarn,” she added. “I’m testing the waters, because obviously, I know it takes a lot of effort and time and just like putting yourself out there.