January 2012
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This Week’s Discovery:
the Liberty perfect shirt
Our idea of inalienable style rights: life, Liberty and the pursuit of florals. These artful, eye-popping blooms from London’s Liberty Art Fabrics, the British house famous for its fabric collection since 1875 (even Oscar Wilde was a fan), are our current obsession. Our design team revived this drawn-from-life floral of garden perennials like wild grasses, oxeye...
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This Week’s Discovery:
the Wallace & Barnes flannel
Grants Pass, Oregon: the coolest town you’ve never heard of. One of our men’s designers was hanging out in the Northwest (a hidden mecca of amazing Americana finds) and zeroed in on a vintage plaid shirt at a yard sale for its hardy, worn-to-the-mill construction. The team reinterpreted it for our limited-edition Wallace & Barnes collection in durable...
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Spring/Summer ’12 Collection Event
for 24 hours, we’re giving you the chance (before anyone else) to pre-order styles from our collection lookbook photographed at our show during NY Fashion Week.
Get your exclusive private access here.
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Sneak Peek at Spring
we took some snapshots from behind the scenes of our photo shoot for our spring looks (we’re already counting down the days until sandal weather…)
Our model gets an extra hand in the wind power department.
Our shoe designers literally put their best foot forward this season.
We heart spring accessories.
The stylists get steamy prepping the outfits.
The web editors work...
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Behind the Seams: Knit Trip
we talked to a couple of our in-house sweater experts, Andrea and Natalie, to get the inside scoop on the design team’s most recent journey to Florence, Italy, for Pitti Filati—the world’s largest yarn show
Showstopper: Pitti Filati is like the Oscars of yarn shows. Top designers from around the world flock here each year, and the things we see are important indicators of what the season’s...
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Eye-openers
this week’s roundup of delightful discoveries
Liv, one of our women’s accessories designers:
“I have so many belts, scarves, pins and accessories at home that I’m always on the lookout for ways to display them all. I love how the dresser and dress form are used to display the goods!”
Inspiration found here.
Catherine, one of our web designers:
“I love the idea of looking at a very...
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Shelf Life: Ruth
a peek into the office of our window dresser and prop finder extraordinaire
I think of my office as a holding place
for favorite props until they find their
perfect home in one of our stores.
(clockwise from top left)
–This is my inspiration board, where I put clippings from books, blogs or magazines that catch my eye. There’s a tear sheet in this snapshot that shows a wall of...
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Cool Hunting
our men’s design team took a field trip to Tokyo, the capital of cutting-edge cool and rare vintage finds, to seek inspiration for our upcoming collections
1. Omoide Yokocho, or “Memory Alley,” a narrow passageway packed with yakitori joints (famous for their skewers of grilled meats) and sake bars. Rumored to be a source of inspiration for sets in Ridley Scott’s cult-classic film Blade...
