Davey Detail: The Artist Now Designing for Lady Gaga
Davey Detail Isn't Just Rose McGowan's Ex — He Designed Lady Gaga's Coachella Billboards
Search “Davey Detail” and most results still frame him as a footnote in Rose McGowan’s biography. That’s about a decade out of date. Today he’s running a Los Angeles design studio whose recent client list includes Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball tour, Nine Inch Nails’ Peel It Back tour, and Omega — a career arc that gets buried under recycled divorce-timeline content.
Quick answer: Davey Detail is the public name for Davey Leavitt, a Los Angeles multidisciplinary artist and designer, former co-founder and Creative Director of the artist collective CYRCLE (2010–2020), and founder of Davey Leavitt Studio (dl/s). He was married to actress Rose McGowan from 2013 to 2016. His current work centers on creative direction for music and lifestyle brands.
The name situation, briefly
Three names circulate for the same person: Davey Detail, Davey Leavitt, and David Morgen Leavitt. His own studio site uses “Davey Leavitt, also known as Davey Detail.” The Los Angeles Times, reporting on the 2016 divorce filing, used the legal name David Morgen Leavitt. There’s no separate person behind any of these — it’s one artist, three name forms depending on context (art world, legal filings, tabloid shorthand).
What he’s actually doing now — the part most bios skip
After CYRCLE wound down in 2020, Leavitt launched Davey Leavitt Studio, positioning himself as principal creative director, designer, and artist for what his site describes as institutional and cultural brands. The studio’s own portfolio lays out specific, dated projects rather than vague “collaborated with” language:
- Lady Gaga, The Mayhem Ball (2025 tour): official campaign design — art direction and graphic design, with creative direction credited to mtla.studio.
- Lady Gaga, “Harlequin” album: custom typography, hand-lettered in lipstick, across the exclusive vinyl, standard vinyl, and CD releases.
- Lady Gaga, Coachella 2025: three billboard designs placed along the I-10 freeway for her Coachella set — two seen entering the festival, one on the way out.
- Nine Inch Nails, PEEL IT BACK tour: the studio’s about page credits Leavitt with leading global campaign art and merchandise design for the tour, alongside the Gaga work.
- Wilson: a 3D-printed detachable hiking sole engineered for Wilson’s Pro Staff 87 tennis shoe, plus pop-up court activations and brand identity work for a “Wilson Tennis Racket Club” sub-brand.
- Omega: wordmark, logo, and timepiece design for the “Art of Time” limited-edition watch collection.
That’s a meaningfully different story than “artist who used to be married to a celebrity” — it’s an active creative-director career touring with two of the bigger pop and rock acts of 2025–26.
The CYRCLE years (2010–2020)
Before the studio, Leavitt co-founded and served as Creative Director of CYRCLE, a Los Angeles-based artist collective whose murals and installations appeared at Rossoblu, the Aria Resort and Casino, and The Freehand Hotel. CYRCLE’s client and collaborator list, per the studio’s own account, included HBO, DC Shoes, Reebok Classic, A Bathing Ape, Pharrell Williams, Swizz Beatz, Steve Aoki, and street artist Vhils, along with campaign appearances for Audi, New Balance, and Uber. This is the period that built his art-world credibility before the shift into brand and tour creative direction.
The Rose McGowan marriage, in three sentences
People reported that McGowan married Leavitt in Los Angeles on October 12, 2013. The Los Angeles Times reported she filed for divorce in 2016, citing irreconcilable differences and a separation date of May 1, 2015. E! News reported the divorce was finalized on November 10, 2016. That’s the full, sourced timeline — there’s no indication anywhere in credible reporting that the marriage continued past 2016 or that there’s more to the story than a standard filing-to-finalization process.
What’s not verified — and shouldn’t be treated as fact
A birth year of 1983 shows up on a couple of art-directory sites (ArtRabbit, BELHAUS), but neither is a primary source, and no outlet has published a confirmed birthdate. Net worth figures, family background, and current relationship status circulating on other bio sites don’t trace to any credible source. Treat those as unverified rather than fact, regardless of how confidently other pages state them.
