One of the things we have been learning about this year- and tracking via journal- are phases of the moon. You’ll see it mentioned on our instagram every quarter step (full 🌕 third quarter 🌗 new 🌑 first quarter 🌓). 🌑 New Moon: new beginnings 🌒 Waxing Crescent: conceptualization 🌓 First Quarter: action 🌔 Waxing…
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How To Measure
On the new site we have added a newly rewritten (thank you amazing copywriter Virginia! ) Size Guide, with better (clearer) directions on how to measure. I thought I’d proudly share our cute little sketches as well.
Three Lists
When I arrived in the studio yesterday, I made three lists. Things I should do. Things I want to do. Things I’m afraid to do. I constrained the parameters to just studio work, by the way. Otherwise those could be very long lists. This was after a few days spent diligently and timefully completing year…
Simple Winter Underlayers
I love to choose dark, rich, shades in the winter. Think nutmeg or chocolate. Basic black is always a nice option as well. The deeper shades complement winter clothing choices- layers of cottons, silks or wools, in my case. Nothing like a cocoa brown bralette under a steely silk camisole paired with a woven shirt…
Color Inspirations
Season after season, I find myself looking towards photos and memories of natural settings to choose colors for the new collection. For fall and winter of 2017, I was intensely interested in a bright yellow-green shade that reflected fall leaves. It was an odd color for a lingerie set, but It fit well with the…
Making Things: Jackets
I made my first tailored jacket when I was sixteen. It wasn’t very good, but I remember staying up all night, hand-stitching every seam, because that was how couturiers did it, right? Early on I developed an obsession with Chanel suits and jackets, of the 1960s and 70s era. I had never owned one, had…
Design Process 