Top to bottom: 1. Miscellaneous gold-toothed skulls, jewelry and wood vases + Recycled glassware and Fog Linen pieces. 2. Wood vases on a handpainted shelf — such amazing merchandising + Japanese ceramics and super-affordable Fog Linen trays. 3. Lockets by Tres Petits Points + Root bowls and burl wood serving boards. 4. Dishware illustrated by [...]
I just posted on the Storenvy blog about the eight days Jon and I spent in Austin last week, from SXSW Interactive through Music — what a time! Highlights included TxSCC, Danny DeVito, Austin shopping, Austin food and Bon Iver with his shirt off. Select snapshots coming soon. And if I met you last week for [...]
Remember Standard Magazine, which launched in September? It’s an online-only shelter mag that features exclusively eco-friendly goods, but it doesn’t mention eco qualities because they shouldn’t be out-of-the-ordinary — they should be standard. (Just in case you needed a refresher!) Kelly asked me to contribute to the current issue by curating the “On the Boards” [...]
Earlier this year I bought the best-fitting pair of jeans I’ve ever owned: “The Legging” by AG Jeans. They are a perfect summer-weight denim with a sheen and a hint of stretch (though not the super-stretchy denim that the term “jegging” might conjure up). All stitching is dark, the same color as the denim. One night [...]
New additions to Alyson Fox’s A Small Collection! I got to see a handful of Alyson’s new necklace designs at her Spartan trunk show in May and am glad to see many of them available online now. They’re a steal at only $30 a piece. But the best part? That the colored beads are those [...]
Earlier this summer while browsing the racks at Buy Definition with Grechen, I saw several underwear styles in the T by Alexander Wang line and thought, “Huh?” I didn’t understand them, but I didn’t think too much about them, either. But since then I’ve seen Esti Choi, the adorable and discerning owner of Buy Definition, [...]
CLAREVIVIER La Tropezienne, eco tanned Italian leather, $320 CLAREVIVIER Messenger Tote, Nubuck leather with detachable leashed clutch, $345 CLAREVIVIER Remake Clutch 11.5″ x 11.5″, remnant leather, $149 The design goals behind CLAREVIVIER, designed by former French journalist Clare Guerrero Vivier, are described as “timeless style over trend, quality over hype, and progression over abstraction” — [...]
Out of the 200+ designers camped out at Palmer Events Center for Austin’s first-ever Renegade Craft Fair, these seven grabbed my attention for their amazing designs and inspiring backstories. Big thanks to Lilian Asterfield Upcycled Vintage Neckties, Ryan Berkley Illustration, Leah Duncan Illustration, Design & Textiles, Jenny N. Design Handmade Leather Bags, Letterpress Delicacies, Nous [...]
I spent my entire day yesterday at Renegade Craft Fair Austin — what a perfect Sunday! I got many of my favorite artists on video, which I’ll be sharing with you soon, but for now here’s a look at one of my favorite items from the entire day: VERAMEAT’s Got Heart ring. It’s available in brass [...]
Renegade Austin is this weekend! There are a handful of Austin vendors I’d definitely like to meet and a few Kansas City artists I’ll be sure to say hi to, plus I’ll be spreading the word about Storenvy’s free online stores, not to mention that I’m hoping to put together a video of highlights to share [...]
We got our cards sent off this week — the top one by Hammerpress, for Jon’s mom, and the bottom one by Dutch Door Press, for my mom. I got both at Spartan here in Austin. Happy day to all the moms out there!
Austin is officially winning me over, and fast. Tonight I’ll be heading to Spartan, where Alyson Fox will be showing off limited editions of her work from 6-9. Yes, Alyson Fox, of Mociun collaborations and A Small Collection, plus countless features in design media like Domino, NYLON, Design*Sponge, Daily Candy and more. The Spartan folks sound pretty fantastic, [...]
Though I wasn’t able to be at Thursday night’s High Voltage student fashion show in person, I was able to watch it via Fashionably Austin’s webcast. The designs and overall show production looked extremely impressive, and I read in advance that the 32 students’ 128 looks would place an emphasis on “eco-friendly fabric and technology-smart garments.” In [...]
Thank goodness for fellow bloggers! Thanks to Indiana of AdordedAustin.com and Tran of tranish.blogspot.com, I made plans for tonight to go to what Indiana calls ”one of the most anticipated fashion events in all of Austin,” the University of Texas’ textiles and apparel division’s year-end fashion show. HOWEVER, my brother and his wife just let me [...]