Meet Our Heart Throb Love Award Winner: Photographer Rob Schanz

Ever since photographer Rob Schanz won the Heart Throb award in the first ever BLDG 25 Blog Love Awards late last year, I’ve been wanting to do a feature on this talented man.  When we read the submission letter, sent in by Rob’s girlfriend, we all kind of fell a little bit in love with him.  Read More

Scenes From The Office

The office is starting to look full again as people are returning back to work from the holiday break. Leftover decorations are still floating about to get in that last bit of holiday spirit, and it seems that the start of 2014 is going to be pretty white with all of the snow we got last night. I’m ready for the weekend to bundle up and embrace it! Read More

Sneak Peek: January 2014 With Sasha Pivovarova

In my 4 years at Free People I’ve seen some pretty amazing catalogs… but to this day one of my all time favorites is still our April 2011 book featuring Sasha Pivovarova.  This ethereal beauty has such an air of grace and magic about her, and she just seems to float effortlessly in our clothes.  We were thrilled to work with Sasha again on our January 2014 catalog, and she’s the perfect model to showcase the fresh new trends for spring 2014.  What’s even cooler about this book is that it was shot at Sasha’s beautiful home, by her husband Igor Vishnyakov, giving us an intimate glimpse into her home life and fascinating artwork (the illustrations in the catalog were done by Sasha herself!). Read More