The new store display was designed around 3 different materials: a mix of bamboo, cotton rope, and grass mats. The grass mats are from India and made of strips of bamboo. The patterns were inspired by fabrics our Visual Director bought in Tanzinia on a safari and some fabrics the accessories team designed with. The (…) Read more »
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cassie’s fp visit
Mar 26, 2007Cassie is 12 years old and a huge fan of Free People. Lucky for her, she also happens to be the cousin of our Art Director, Doub, who welcomed her to spend a day with the FP design team. Check out how talented she is! Using bits of things around the office for inspiration, her (…) Read more »
employee desk
Mar 23, 2007I mentioned how friends and gifts seemed to be major themes for the FP crew when it comes to their workspace. These objects are favorites of Elsa, the Free People Direct Assistant Image Coordinator. That means she works on the creative team for the website, coordinating the photographers, the models, the photos, etc. The picture (…) Read more »
employee desk
Mar 16, 2007This week’s employee desk is that of Ana, our Design Manager. She helps to oversee the entire design team and the direction of each collection. Ana likes to surround herself with photos of her children. She says, when you work crazy hours like she does, it’s important to keep her family close. (…) Read more »
holi holi holi
Mar 07, 2007Two of our Free People designers were just in India vistiting one of our factories. Our friends at the factory prepared a special Holi celebration for them, as they were leaving the country on the day of Holi. This is known as the “festival of colors” celebrating the start of Spring as well as marking (…) Read more »
employee desk- accessories intern
Mar 02, 2007So this is the desk of our lovely accessories intern, Callie. Notice any theme in her photos? She seems to be stuck on the color orange, right down to her fingernails. She believes it’s because she was sick and was thinking of vitamin C. Look out, Callie’s orange crochet might end up on some piece (…) Read more »
fp employee desk
Feb 23, 2007I thought it might be fun to give a little “sneak peek” inside the Free People home office by showing you some of the workspaces of our employees. Everyone has made their spaces so personalized, and in visiting many of the desks around the office, I definitely noticed a trend. So many people surround themselves (…) Read more »
what’s that smell?
Feb 21, 2007There was a very strong scent in the halls of the home office the other day. It smelled of the lovely scent of a Free People store, but times 1000! Ever wonder what that lovely scent is? The display team makes these little sachets out of muslin. The scent is a pot pourri of dried (…) Read more »
bathing babes
Feb 09, 2007Wanted to point out how great these illustrations are. One of our designers/ incredible illustrators drew these babes to express our Pool Party trend. We used them internally for wholesale lookbooks, and then our web team worked them into the website as well. The look so very Pool Party against the vintage floral prints. My (…) Read more »
strange similarity
Jan 16, 2007A reader commented and pointed us to the strange similarity between Food & Wine’s latest issue and a photo we posted about the Free People lunch club. It’s really kind of bizarre. I can’t believe she made the connection! Check out her blog. (…) Read more »
holiday partay
Dec 19, 2006We had our anual holdiay party last night along with employees from Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. There were so many festive activities, everyone had a great time. The photo above is of the sled filled with toys we collected for a toy drive to benefit Philadelphia children. Each department was assigned an age group to (…) Read more »
fp girl in motion
Dec 13, 2006Okay, so this is our first go at video on the blog. Try clicking here if it’s not working well. (It’s skippy, but then other times I open it, it plays perfectly.)This little movie was for a meeting at the home office to inspire and reinforce the idea that there is this certain “Free People (…) Read more »
