ERIN MINKLEY

Speaking of pattern - an artist I know from high school (Erin Minkley, who is currently my new penpal - Facebook sure has it's perks!) has some work that has got me excited about pattern too.  I am so unfamiliar (and frankly uneducated) about textile art and I have been loving perusing her work for inspiration.

PATTERN

Tom has been talking to me about pattern a lot lately.  He's also pointing it out all of the time so during this past fashion week in NY and now all over Europe I find myself collecting all of these amazing patterns in my mind.  One of my favorite things about the patterns I have been seeing is that they are graphic, loud, and unabashedly layered on top of one another.

I have been eating up all of the fashion week images!

These images are collected from: Refinery 49, Vouge, the Sartorialist, and T magazine blog

Photographer : Heloise Faure

I can't remember now where i came across this photographer, but I find this image mesmerizing.  It's titled "Fernanda".
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Kinfolk + James's + Britt Chudleigh

Chels just did a few stellar write ups (here and here) on our little collaboration for Kinfolk Magazine so I will refer you to them instead of doing another.  I'm really proud of it though, so I wanted to post it on my own blog.  I am so glad we got the chance to work together on this.

What a dream team (Kinfolk + James's + Britt Chudleigh).  If only we could all find more reasons to work together!  I know my fingers will be crossed.

Ever since we moved in together I have been telling Tom that when we have our own house (in a duplex now where our neighbor has full reign over the back yard) that I want an outside bed.  I've been running the logistics of this through my head for almost a full year now until I came across this beauty.  I will have an outdoor sleeping quarter one day.  Mark my words!

Blue Bear Outside

We got the first samples of the hats Tom designed.  Can't wait for what's next.