This Saturday, I’ll be selling my tees at Market SF in the Mission!

Spoiler alert: I’ll be selling at my wholesale rates. If you’re in San Francisco, please come say hi!

The Blue Macaw
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
Noon-6

All images above from artists selling at this week’s market, including my friend Kaili’s beautiful Waialea Jewelry.

Thief&Bandit

Thief&Bandit is an awesomely bright accessories line out of Richmond, VA, created by Amie Cunningham. You may have seen several of Amie’s accessories were featured last year on The Uniform Project.

Most pieces are made from screen printed jersey, and the bracelets up top include strips of soft leather as well.

The oversized tees printed with patterns in a corset shape are fabulous. Shop, and view products on models, at Thief&Bandit’s Etsy shop.

Les Enfants Sauvages

Les Enfants Sauvages is based in Montreal, designed and created by Marie-Christine Quenneville. Pieces are made from African wax cloth.

The hair bows looked adorable in Marie-Christine’s braid,

and the dresses are sewn to a beautifully flattering fit on most any body type. I saw a few women trying them on and was mucho impressed.

View products on models in Les Enfants Sauvages’ current lookbook, and shop them on Etsy.

Early Jewelry

It was great to see Kylie while she was in town from Lawrence. She says that her best events are in San Francisco and Chicago — people there really “get” her style. (Though I can’t imagine not!)

Geode and horsehair pieces shown above, and below, the newest additions to my personal Early collection: metal-and-string necklaces with brass-, copper- and black-colored beads. Kylie bought them from an African peddler who passed through Lawrence in a van. I love their simplistic design and construction (knotted at the back), plus their jingly sound when I move. Worn here with the Fashion Loves People tee available exclusively from Haught Style in Kansas City.

Shop the Early Jewelry online store here, though for the African beads, you might have to ask nicely.

I’m in the market for a new tote — something classic and hearty, for casually carrying around my laptop and any occasional purchases alongside my (mini) purse. Beautiful shades and textures of brown leather keep catching my eye. The newest on the list is this Wedge Tote, handmade by Jill Harrell in San Francisco by Scabby Robot, $160.

Many of the brand’s styles are made from scrap and reclaimed leather. You can see more styles here.

Drumroll please…

The latest Fashion Loves People ♥ Kirk design, Seeing Dots, is now available in our online store!

And possibly even more exciting is that for the launch, I’m lucky enough to be collaborating with four of my favorite jewelry designers in the world: Alyson Fox, Manimal, Early Jewelry and Adoura Demode. Limited-editions and pre-releases of their pieces are for sale in our store.

For now, I’m going to let you read the press release for more info. (Which I wrote of course, though I do my darnedest to make it sound like I didn’t!) I’ll be hitting you with plenty more details, and even a few events, soon enough.

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Fashion Loves People ♥ Kirk partners with indie jewelry designers to launch newest design

This morning, Wednesday, Aug. 4, Fashion Loves People ♥ Kirk introduced its newest design: Seeing Dots.

In collaboration, four indie jewelry designers — Alyson Fox, Manimal, Early Jewelry and Adoura Demode — have contributed limited-editions of their work, which are for sale in the Fashion Loves People online store.

Alyson Fox is exclusively pre-releasing four necklaces from her fall additions to her A Small Collection, each an evolution of the forms and innovative use of materials her designs are known for. One of each style is available. http://asmallcollection.com/

Manimal designer Kristen Lombardi is exclusively pre-releasing two styles from her fall collection, titled Alaskan Winter, made of suede and other leathers and inspired by Inuit imagery. Beautiful new shapes and color palettes expand the brand’s down-to-earth repertoire. Three of each style are available. http://www.save-the-manimals.com/

Early Jewelry designer Kylie Grater custom-designed a variation of her classic horseshoe necklace to mimic the lines of the skirt in the Seeing Dots illustration, in black oxidized metal with a dangling quartz, as well as spotted guinea-feather earrings with custom round ear wires. Each design features 100% recycled sterling silver. Two of each style are available. http://www.earlyjewelry.com/

Adoura Demode designer Danielle Teller contributed her rosary necklace, made of new and reclaimed materials. A hint of familiarity and irreverence on a beautifully detailed chain. Three are available. http://adoura.com/

FLP’s design Seeing Dots design is a 1972 fashion illustration by J. Kirk Davis, originally inspired by Norman Norell evening gowns. The sophistication of the drawing is juxtaposed on grey heather jersey, available as a racerback tank or a v-neck tee. Polka dots in the subject’s skirt are accented in white.

The shirts are ethically produced in Dominican Republic in line with the Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct, and certified by Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP). The fabric contents are 38% cotton (6.25% organic), 50% polyester (6.25% recycled) and 12% naturally occurring rayon. All previously released shirts are 100% organic cotton.

Each shirt purchased from the Fashion Loves People online store comes with a 5″x7″ print of the shirt’s illustration, signed and editioned out of 50 by Davis, printed on 100% recycled paper.

Additional highlights:

• All shirts in the FLP♥K line are printed with vintage fashion illustrations by J. Kirk Davis, circa 1960s-1970s.

• 5% of proceeds benefit the Not For Sale Campaign, fighting human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.

• Shirts are tagless, printed inside the back collar with a “Fashion Loves People (loves) Kirk” insignia.

• Shirts are printed in the U.S. with water-based eco-friendly inks.

• Shirts ship in recycled chipboard envelopes hand-stamped with the FLP logo.

• In retail locations, new hangtags are made of scrap birch veneer, paper-thin slices of wood that are an excess of the Colorado furniture industry. They are letterpressed by hand in San Francisco by IN HAUS Press. http://www.inhauspress.com/

• Fashion Loves People is an ethical fashion blog first (http://fashionlovespeople.com, founded by Janette Crawford in 2007) and an archetypical ethical apparel line second.

• Fashion Loves People ♥ Kirk was launched in 2009 by Davis and Crawford.

Fashion Loves People ♥ Kirk will soon release details on several upcoming events in the San Francisco area.

All apparel graphics created in partnership with Heather Hale, http://twineandtwig.blogspot.com. Online store photography by Darius Monsef, founder of http://www.colourlovers.com. Modeled by Laura Ellner, editor of http://www.ontheracks.com.

For wholesale or general brand inquiries, contact Janette Crawford at janette(at)fashionlovespeople.com.

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All Osborn Design handmade shoes are 20% off with code SUMMER, and all reMade USA upcycled leather bags are 20% off with code SUMMERLOVE.

Almost sounds like they called each other. :)

reMade USA sale via Green Grechen.

There’s something so soft and sweet about A Alicia‘s necklaces.

Designed and handmade in London by Anna Johnson, the pieces are constructed with only fair trade and organic fabrics and vintage and recycled materials.

These single-strand necklaces are $37 and the double-strand is $67, and they ship in recycled/biodegradable packaging. They look lovely with just a plain white tee!

Via EcoFabulous.

More shoes made in Africa! EXTRASEED‘s classic flats are handmade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The uppers are made from factory waste, either leather or vegan scrap fabric.

And the soles are made of recycled rubber from car tires!

The pairs range from $38-$55, depending on materials. Take that, Payless.

Shop EXTRASEED on Etsy!

Launched in March of this year, SAWA Shoes are the first 100% African-sourced and African-made sneakers on the market. Sporting a vintage-inspired aesthetic, the sneakers boast the easy familiarity of a true classic-in-the-making.

Familiar, and yet fashion-forward enough that some of the world’s most premier shops have picked them up, from Dover Street Market in London and Comme des Garçon in Tokyo, to Soula in Brooklyn.

SAWA was founded by three friends in Paris with a shared love for Africa and for shoes: Fabio Di Iorio, who worked in product development at Le Coq Sportif and Adidas Originals; Mehdi Slimani, who also worked in product management at Le Coq Sportif, and Frédéric Barthélemy, who still has a day job, but plans to devote himself to SAWA full-time in the very near future.

“In a nutshell, Fabio, Mehdi and Fred are people who love to create and live without boundaries,” they say. With a company as well-executed as SAWA, boundaries don’t stand a chance.

Read the rest at Commerce With a Conscience »

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 Savons Reconstructed Jewelry & Clothing, Scarlett Garnet Handcrafted Jewelry, Minor Mishap Marching Band and everyone at Renegade Craft Fair!

There are many artists I wasn’t able to get on video (or whose video sadly didn’t turn out), but I’ll be sure to tell you more about them soon.

Anytime you get the chance to go to a Renegade event, do it!

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 for $34, or in 14k gold for $200. All the brand’s jewelry is made by hand, and its sterling silver is 100% recycled.

All credit goes to the lovely Grechen for eyeing this ring first and getting one herself! But it’s so delicate and sweet that I have to be a copycat. Vera didn’t have my ring size when I made it to her booth, and I think I’m going to go all out with the 14k gold option for everyday wear, so for now I have to save it for the top of my wishlist when my anniversary rolls around in August. It adds the perfect gold touch to the plain silver wedding band I wear on my right hand (I keep my engagement band separate on the left), tying in all my gold jewelry. I can’t wait to get it.