I always love our April catalogs – it’s festival fashion at its best, and this year our team shot in Joshua Tree, California, setting the scene for four girls on a road trip through the desert. Read More
Results for festival
Thursday Poll: Blanket Bags
Festival season has begun, which has us thinking about bags – which bags we can pack a weekend’s worth of stuff into, and which bags will be good to walk around the festival with. Read More
Tunesday: Q&A with Slow Club Band
Slow Club is a folk rock duo made up of Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor, hailing from Sheffield, England. I originally heard about them when a blog reader recommended them, and I’m so glad I checked them out – I love the breezy simplicity of their music and the 60s elements that are sprinkled throughout. Read More
Handpicked: Our Current Favorites
The Inspiration Piece ~ Inspired by an antique necklace our fp one designer picked up at an open-air market during her travels, the Marigold Embellished Tank is the perfect statement piece to bring out the wandering gypsy in us all. Read More
Woodstock Photo Diary
This past weekend was one of the best I’ve had…ever. My boyfriend and I drove up to Woodstock, NY on Friday evening, where we spent two nights in a charming bed and breakfast. Read More
Who’s going to Coachella?
Our Coachella tickets arrived in the post this morning and now the excitement has definitely kicked in! Read More
Store Events This Weekend!
SXSW Styling Event at Free People Austin at the Domain!
Saturday March 10 2012 10am – 9pm
Come get styled in your perfect festival look for upcoming SXSW Read More
Trend: Floral Headdresses
The floral headband underlines the delicate femininity of Spring Summer 2012. We’re in love with floral and what’s more floral headdresses! Read More
Blogger Diary: Can You Hear The Music?
It seems like music has been taking over my life lately, and I’m totally ok with it. Music is pretty much always playing in the back of my mind, a constant presence, maybe just turned down to a quieter volume at times, but lately it is blasting into my ear drums and I can’t seem to satisfy my hunger for more. Read More
Snapshot: Victoria Trevino, Texas
2011: A Look Back
Our catalog team traveled around the world…
…and us bloggers got to go to our shoot with Sasha Pivovarova in NYC – definitely a highlight of the year!
We worked with so many beautiful models…
We debuted FP Spun and Vegan Leather, and launched a special line of Limited Edition Dresses! We celebrated with pop-up shops in NY and LA, where Jade Castrinos performed at our store.
We fell hard for extreme flares, monochromatic dressing, birkenstocks, turbans, sweater dressing, fancy collars, western boots, friendship bracelets and bright nails, flatforms, mixed prints, color pops, polka dots and more…
We were influenced by decades past…
…and by trends like mod and grunge.
We brought you festival coverage from Pitchfork and Outside Lands…
We shot our July catalog with Alexandra Valenti and the Happen-Ins, and we had such a great time we went back and threw a party to celebrate the catalog release! We also threw a party at our 5th ave store for Fashion’s Night Out and had a blast.
We made so many lovely blogger friends!
Many crafts were made, and we held our first crafting events in Cambridge and NYC!
And, some new furry faces popped up in the office :)
2011 was a good year :) Here’s to making the next one even better!
Happy New Year!
xoxo
Free People
Atlantis Books
Our makeup artist told me about this lovely book shop called Atlantis Books, located in Oia, Santorini. I love the story behind it and would love to spend a day browsing its many shelves! She brought me back the postcards above, and a sweet little short story called “Feuille d’Album” by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Paravion Press, which was founded out of Atlantis Books, it is one of several different stories they print in small booklets that you can mail to a friend or loved one.
“In the spring of 2002, Oliver and Craig spent a week on the island of Santorini. The land inspired them and there was no bookshop, so they drank some wine and decided to open one. Oliver named it Atlantis Books and the two laughed about how their children would run it someday.
We found an empty building facing the sunset, drank some whiskey and signed a lease. We found a dog and cat, opened a bank account, applied for a business license, found some friends, built the shelves, landed a boat on the terrace and filled the place with books. Jenny came in April and painted everything blue.
Atlantis Books opened in the spring of 2004 and lived below the castle for one year. In the winter of 2005 we moved into the center of town and settled nicely into the community. We’ve had food festivals and film festivals, writers reading on the terrace, and a host of cats and dogs.
The bookshop feels like home now and we’re still laughing about how our children will run it someday. As Will says, it’s as easy as that. As you. As that.”
“Paravion Press was born in a bookshop on the cliffs of an island in the south of Greece. The shop swarms with people who love stories and who are far away from loved ones. And it occurred to us that by sending a story in the mail there might, as John Donne put it, be a moment to ‘mingle souls: for thus, friends absent speak.’”
Check out their website!