The accessories girls sent me these funny pictures. Believe it or not, these were used to make samples of accessories coming to a store near you. Enormous bags of glitter and a Mama Cass dress. They used the dress to line ipod cozies! (…) Read more »
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dyes from Morocco
Oct 05, 2007One of our designers picked up these amazing dyes in Morocco. The purple one is from a particular stone found in the Atlas Mountains, and the blue one is true indigo. Beats RIT dye! The colors are so vivid… (…) Read more »
fp birthday cake
Sep 26, 2007It was one of our designer’s birthday this week! Happy birthday Gianna! One of our other designers, Melissa, made her this beautiful cake… (…) Read more »
the yurt
Sep 07, 2007I posted the video of our first Urban Outfitters Inc. art installation a little while back (check it out here). The latest artist exhibiting in Building 543 (the Urban Inc. common building hosting our restaurant, book shop, gym, etc) is also a Free People girl. Luren works on our display team and is an amazing (…) Read more »
to the dogs
Aug 29, 2007Some of the pups at the office this week… I know, just more proof that the folks at Free People just fool around all day… (…) Read more »
mustache friday
Aug 21, 2007The girls at the home office were inspired by the gods to declare last Friday, Mustache Friday. Check out the pics… (…) Read more »
how-to scarves
Aug 13, 2007So we received this anonymous comment on one of the August catalog postings… “I think you guys should do a write up in the blog on how to tie scarves! There are so many new beautiful scarves in stock now and there put on the models in such a neat way, I would love to (…) Read more »
more new showroom pics
Aug 02, 2007I managed to get a hold of some more pictures of our new showroom to share with you. The visual/display team adorned the walls with tons of artwork, similar to the way they do the fitting rooms in all the Free People stores. The way they work is they gather inspiration and ideas and make (…) Read more »
new showroom new york
Aug 01, 2007The Free People display team is in the process of decorating our new New York showroom. The showroom is where we sell to all the other stores that sell Free People. We display all of our upcoming collections there and the girls in the showroom work with the buyers of each store to choose the (…) Read more »
the workshop
Jul 17, 2007Just wanted to share a few photos I snapped in the display team’s workshop. Doesn’t that first picture look like the most girly hardware store you’ve ever seen? So out of all this madness comes our beautiful displays. Our fall store displays are being installed now, so I’ll get you some photos and the inside (…) Read more »
model casting
Jul 06, 2007We get a million girls asking how we cast our models. Well here it is, from our team that holds the castings… about every 2 or 3 months, we at free people host a model casting to check out new faces for our upcoming web and catalog shoots. we start by contacting modeling agencies – (…) Read more »
free people art show
Jun 29, 2007Urban Outfitters Inc. has a building called 543 in the Navy Yard that is the center of employee life. This building is shared by the three brands and is also open to the public. 543 houses our restaurant/cafeteria, gym, yoga studio, coffee shop, and magazine shop among other things. Since it is a space the (…) Read more »
