Kinfolk Magazine Volume Two.

Kinfolk Volume Two from Kinfolk on Vimeo.

We have definitely touted this before but we're going for it again. We LOVE Kinfolk magazine. It's an amazing new resource for us to ooh, aah and swoon over. 

Volume Two will be released next Monday, December 12th and this time it's focus is on spending time with family and friends during the Winter and Holiday months. We're so excited!!

Watch the teaser above and if you're as enamored as we are, click here to become a subscriber.

Factory / Park Series

(left to right: Explorer Boots, Stakeout Boots, Letter Press Heels, Daisy Wheel Heels)

David Amico's FACTORY / PARK SERIES is now up at Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills. This Los Angeles based artist took inspiration from Skid Row and transformed it to create these beautiful abstract paintings. I was inspired to pair up some of his paintings with my favorite fall Seychelles shoes. I can just imagine wearing any of these shoes while visiting the gallery with my friends. The show just started and will be on view through December. This is one art show you should not miss this season!

ACE GALLERY - BEVERLY HILLS
9430 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 858-9090

(images from Ace Gallery)

The Faces of Fashion.

Fashion Notes has recently launched it's Fashionable Faces modern art posters to commemorate the fashion industry faces we all know and love. 

These 10 designers are forever embedded into the fabric of fashion history and continue to represent the best of the best, both by craft and legacy.

View the full lot here. Which one is your favorite?

Come Join Us.

Please come join us this Thursday as we storm the LA ART WALK, set up shop at the amazing new Brigade Boutique and serve wine and shoes. How can you say no?

You can't, so check out the details here, http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2321710298 put it on your calendar and we look forward to meeting you.

our friends are amazing

It's all too easy to take your friends for granted, but sometimes something pops up to remind us just how blessed we are to have some seriously amazing and talented friends. Like who, you ask? Well, our friend Heidi Ross is a photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Being based in one of the music capitals of the nation means she has an enviable roster of music clients she's photographed, including The Dead Weather, Cary Brothers, Sara Bareilles and Karen Elson, just to name a few.

Heidi now has a blog, so you can get a regular dose of her stunning photographs right here

above: Karen Elson & Sara Bareilles photographed by Heidi Ross

femme du jour: Sonia Delaunay

In her time, Sonia Delaunay was a star of the Paris fashion world, her name synonymous with other icons like Chanel and Jeanne Lanvin. Now she is best known for her contributions to abstract painting, but her avant-garde designs left an indelible mark on the fashion world

Sonia was born in Russia but moved to Paris in 1905 to study art. She soon married fellow artist Robert Delaunay and together they developed a style of abstract cubist painting known as Orphism. Sonia was revolutionary in her ideas that fine art should not be seen as more important than commercial arts and craft. She translated her painting style into every facet of daily life, including textiles, and fashion design and interiors, and was even commissioned by Diaghilev to design sets and costumes for the Russian ballet.

We are happy to see Sonia Delaunay reaching a new audience through a beautiful new book Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, published by the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. We are so inspired by her 75 year career that we put together a look for you inspired by Sonia and her characteristic bright prismatic forms.

1. Drafting Shift Dress, Anthropologie

2. Seychelles Pot of Gold heels, Seychelles Footwear

3. Vintage Parasol, Free People

4. Poppy Watercolor Dot Ponytail Scarf, Coach

5. Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, Anthropologie

6. Cloche Hat with Flower, Lori's Shoes

Original & Handmade.

We have a new Etsy shop we have fallen in love with called Bold & Noble. Run by husband and wife team, Jane and David it is a bespoke print shop featuring typography, maps and original hand drawn designs.

In an interview Jane described handmade as, "The human touch. Working with things that are tangible, that you can feel and smell. In this fast, digital age, we are lucky to still have contact with materials and be part of the process of having an idea and making it a reality."

We agree. Cheers to you and David for your beautiful works. We can't wait to see what you come up with next.

 

(All images courtesy of Bold & Noble)



Wish we had thought of that.

Don't you wish you had snapshots of all the people and places you have met and seen? A visual diary of your memories you could revisit from time to time?

We do and Mikael Kennedy did and so he created a polaroid collective, called Shoot the Moon which is currently featured at the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art gallery in Chelsea (NY).

Of the 450 (or so) polaroids, 50 hand-picked images were chosen to be featured in a collection called Pieces of the Moon being shown at the Catalog Gallery in Vancouver. 

As the Jealous Curator aptly said in his guest post featured on SFGirlbyBay,  

"over the past decade, american photographer mikael kennedy has taken thousands of polaroids during what has been often described as a “kerouac-esque” journey, wandering back and forth across the continent, hitching rides, couch surfing, moving from city to city. there is an undeniable intimacy in each image, revealing an obvious closeness to the subject – however, to the viewer, the details still remain vague. were these friends, lovers, strangers, or all of the above?"

Catalog Gallery and The Jealous Curator present : “Pieces of the Moon ~ Photographs by Mikael Kennedy” from Catalog Creative on Vimeo.

What do you think?

Meet Florine.

(Portrait of Myself, 1923)

You never know what will lead you to where you end up. Such was the case today, when I was searching Etsy looking for great finds for this blog and stumbled upon Knit Fitt's post: A Modern Woman of Art History. It was too good not to share and be inspired by -

Florine Stettheimer was an American artist of the early 1900's influenced by deco modernism. Born into a wealthy upper class family, Florine traveled back and forth between Europe and New York and lived her life focusing solely on her art, poetry and creative pursuits. 

Although she longed for acceptance and recognition in the art world, she was reclusive with her works and after a few poor showings, never intended her pieces for the world's stage again. 

After her death, her sister Ettie, (against her will and instruction), donated and published everything and alas an art star was born. Her paintings depict decadence and leisure; essentially the world as she knew it.

(Wish we could have joined her!)

(Cathedrals of Art, unfinished 1942)

(Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917)

(Family Portrait #2, 1933)

(Still Life with Flowers, 1921)