The Free People Fashion Illustration Contest comes to a close tomorrow!
All email entries must be received by 11:59pm tomorrow night, October 3rd, 2008. All regular mail entries must be postmarked by tomorrow as well!
Don’t miss your chance to win a Free People goody box, with all kinds of stuff including a signed print by illustrator Kris Chau! Click here for all the details!
The winner will be notified by October 13th, and announced by October 17th, 2008.
Have you seen our Sky Brights Long Sleeved Top?! It is so adorable! I love burn-out, and the prints and colors are so cute! Which color is your favorite?
Here’s the Natural.
Maybe you like Berry best?
Shown below is the shirt in Moss.
Which color do you like best?
I snapped a couple fun little shots of the silhouette meeting yesterday – it was another day of accidental matching!
Special buddies!
A quick shot of one of our silhouette walls – basically an inspiration board!
These amazing crochet artworks were created by Emily Barletta. I love them and how organic they are! They look like coral to me! In her interview on My Love for You, Emily says she is inspired by internal biological functions, organs, blood, cells, etc… Check out her site for more pictures of her work- she has a cute blog too!
Via this great interview on My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses.
Today at the home office we had our booking meeting, and to go along with the trends we were featuring, we got some adorable (and very tasty) mushroom-shaped cookies!
Looks like everyone enjoyed them very much!
Anna works at the front desk in our wholesale showroom in New York. She takes care of all the details, and likes to add her own special handtouch to everything that she does.
When our wholesale buyers come in, we always offer them a beverage. Anna made these Free People labels to make the water bottles a little more special!
These gorgeous rings are by Carla Nuis.
via Thoughtful Day.
Aren’t these so adorable!? I wish I had them sitting all around my apartment. Emily Sutton makes them, and she adds so many wonderful little details! You can see them all right here.
Oh Joy! shared the newest wallpaper styles from Flavor Paper, and I am impressed. Definitely bookmarking this site for when I live in a place that I can actually invest in such wallpaper…
I love all the trompe l’oeil patterns the best. They look like a classic toile or floral or geo pattern, until you get a good look. Like the first one is mutaches, and the third is a fire hydrant and rats! But check out the site (Flavor Paper), they have some other really amazing prints that aren’t so tricky…
Need a fun craft project for this month that also helps the needy? Crafty Me Yarns, Elgar Richardson, and the Montgomery Hospital in Norristown, PA have gotten together to create a project called Knitting for Babies, which is working to provide warm winter clothes for underprivileged babies, from newborns to about 4 years old. Want to help? All you have to do is knit or crochet a baby item, such as a little hat, sweater, or booties, and send it to:
Knitting for Babies
Crafty Me Yarns
515 Maple St.
Conshohocken, PA 19428
If you have any questions, feel free to drop Anita at Crafty Me Yarns a line!
anita@craftymeyarns.com
This sewn up sewing machine is so incredible! Made by artist Danny Mansmith, who has a history and a personal connection with the sewing machine as a means to make his art.
You have to check out his website and read his thoughts about art, and the inspiration behind creating things with your own hands.
Danny says, “My favorite sweater was one my grandma made out of a towel and embroidered a D. on it.”
Danny also says, “I love bad sewing. When you see something put together really roughly, you see—despite the individual’s apparent lack of skill and perfected technique—creativity.”
found via penguin & fish
Meet Brownie! Brownie is the dog of one of our Intimates designers, Jasmine! We just adore Brownie, and he comes to work every day!
Nicknames: Brown-town, Buddy, Charlie Brown, Brown-eye
Breed: Boston Terrier
Likes: EVERYONE!!! Playing fetch with his little tennis ball, he keeps going and going and going…he’s like the energizer bunny, runs like a bunny too. A soft and cushy bed for him to stretch out on. Carrot sticks. Sunbathing, he’s from California. ;)
Dislikes: Loud vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers. People ignoring him.
Favorite friends: Agnes, Porter, Albert, Grandma Steph, Erin
How did you meet? He was a birthday present. Needless to say, one of most special birthday presents ever. Flew to Philly all the way from California and I went to go meet him at the airport. He was the cutest thing I ever saw! He introduced himself by going potty in my car.
Anything else you want to share?
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